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Improving science literacy
September 18, 2019 —
This week marks national Science Literacy Week, which provides an opportunity to highlight Canada’s outstanding scientists and science communicators from coast-to-coast
![Arctic water. // Image from Pixabay.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Arctic-sea-water-150x150.jpg)
Federal government funds U of M research into oil spill responses
August 12, 2019 —
Seven U of M research projects aimed at testing new technologies and techniques to improve our responses to oil spills have been funded by the federal government
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Dreams of ice
April 17, 2019 —
A new Canada Excellence Research Chair has joined the University of Manitoba, adding to the university’s knowledge in the Arctic
![Canada Excellence Research Chair, Dr. Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (right), led the team that discovered the plant fossiles inside the Cold War-era ice samples](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Dahl-Jensen_WEB-150x150.jpg)
New CERC to advance sea ice research
April 17, 2019 —
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen will be researching how Canadian and Greenlandic glaciers drain fresh water into the ocean
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Forecasting an ever-changing climate
February 4, 2019 —
Julienne Stroeve's work measures and interprets changes to snow and sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean as a result of climate change, and cautions the world about its impact
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Top stories of 2018
December 21, 2018 —
Another amazing year reaches its conclusion at the University of Manitoba
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Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
Coffee With A Co-Worker: Debbie Armstrong
December 3, 2018 —
Q&A with a Co-Worker: Debbie Armstrong
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Expedition Churchill: A Gateway to Arctic Research
November 30, 2018 —
Creative public education and outreach campaign to share world-leading Arctic climate change research
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Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
Q&A with Grad Student Katelyn Rodgers
October 26, 2018 —
Q&A with grad student Katelyn Rodgers
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The Conversation: How we solved an Arctic mercury mystery
October 19, 2018 —
Why do marine animals in the western Arctic have higher mercury levels than those in the east?