Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources News Archive

July 7, 2025 — 
The D.G. & V.E. Barber Memorial Fellowship in Arctic Research is intended to honour Dr. Barber’s commitment to the next generation of Arctic researchers. The recipients from Spring Convocation 2025 have been selected and are highlighted below.

July 7, 2025 — 
A University of Manitoba led research project introduces a 390-million-year-old fish from Manitoba.

July 4, 2025 — 
A new research project is set to provide solutions to improve Lake Winnipeg’s water quality. Led by UM’s Dr. David Lobb, Professor in the Department of Soil Science, this project will investigate a critical missing piece in the decades-long effort to reduce harmful nutrient pollution by fingerprinting the sources of airborne phosphorus that affect water quality of the lake.

June 23, 2025 — 
This past winter, researchers from the Centre for Earth Observation Science (CEOS) at the University of Manitoba (UM) completed the first-ever controlled oil spill experiment at the Churchill Marine Observatory (CMO). This was a major milestone in a larger effort to understand how oil behaves in the Arctic, and how Arctic microbes might help clean it up.

June 20, 2025 — 
Conor McNab honors his former educators as he prepares for graduation from the Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources.

June 16, 2025 — 
Drier conditions possible too, but likelihood of that is less certain

June 13, 2025 — 
Graduate students showcase their research and theories in the field of Earth Sciences.

June 13, 2025 — 
Warmer weather expected to worsen wildfire conditions in Manitoba

June 6, 2025 — 
How to make communities more resilient to wildfires

May 27, 2025 — 
Deepest ice core ever found in Canada collected by researchers