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No smoking within 8 meters of entries, air intakes & operable windows

Environmental Health and Safety Office

Promoting a Healthier Campus

October 31, 2024 — 
Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to be aware of their surroundings when smoking or vaping.

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Black bear walking around a field. Photo by: Tomáš Malík

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

CBC Manitoba: Bear-proof bins would be worth the investment in Manitoba provincial park, expert says

October 3, 2024 — 
Bear-proof bins would be worth the investment in Manitoba provincial park, expert says

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A person is standing on land looking at the sun against an Arctic environment that is melting.

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

“Advanced Introduction to Resilience”: a concise overview of resilience in the context of unprecedented global environmental change

April 30, 2024 — 
Dr. Fikret Berkes, Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the Natural Resources Institute, Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources, has recently published a book that explores ecological resilience, with an innovative discussion toward planning for an increasingly unpredictable future.

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Canada Excellence Research Chair, Dr. Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (right), led the team that discovered the plant fossiles inside the Cold War-era ice samples

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

Scientists stunned to discover fossil plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice, indicating an ice-free landscape in a warmer climate

March 15, 2021 — 
The discovery helps confirm a new and troubling understanding that the Greenland ice has melted off entirely during recent warm periods in Earth’s history—periods like the one we are now contributing to with human-caused climate change.

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Dr. Juliana Marson, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Earth Observation Science (CEOS), University of Manitoba

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

Meet Dr. Juliana Marini Marson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environment and Geography

March 8, 2021 — 
Dr. Juliana Marson is a new faculty member at the University of Manitoba whose research focus lies on the polar oceans, their interactions with the cryosphere and climate.

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Dr. Feiyue Wang Professor at the Centre for Earth Observation Science & Canada Research Chair (Tier 1)

UM prof receives national award for environmental research

February 18, 2021 — 
Canada Research Chair honoured by professional chemistry organization

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Thaw slumps are also a sign of the permafrost warming. These can be seen just barely in the satellite image as small dark regions along cliff faces, both facing the ocean and within the river drainage basins. Erosion and slumping expose ancient organic carbon to the air and the hydrosphere, thus providing an extensive positive feedback to climate warming.

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

Thomsen River Estuary, Banks Island: Photo Essay

January 28, 2021 — 
NASA and UM team up to show the remote beauty of Northern Canada

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Arctic shrub Betula nana Northern Alaska; Photo: Agata Buchwal

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

Declining Arctic sea ice drives divergent arctic shrub growth

December 15, 2020 — 
Arctic sea ice has been in steep decline over the last two decades. Meanwhile, tundra shrub abundance has been increasing in many regions of the Arctic.

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Optical measurement of a melt pond; Photo: Pierre Coupel

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

Synthesis study demonstrates phytoplankton can bloom below Arctic sea ice

November 19, 2020 — 
Until roughly a decade ago, most scientists assumed that phytoplankton remained in a sort of stasis throughout the winter and spring until sea ice break-up. Now there is a growing body of evidence that suggests under-ice blooms (UIBs) of phytoplankton can occur in low-light environments below sea ice.

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Dr. Alex Crawford

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

Meet Alex Crawford, Research Associate at the Centre for Earth Observation Science

October 23, 2020 — 
Dr. Crawford studies how the complex interactions of various components of the Arctic climate system are changing in response to continued warming.

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