Environment Earth and Resources News Archive
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
How have sea ice and climate varied in the Canadian Arctic during the last 20,000 years?
May 12, 2023 —
To answer this question, Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Canada Excellence Research Chair, and team are looking to drill an ice core on Müller Ice Cap, Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut. You can follow along as they post updates to their blog.
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
How fast can Greenland flow?
April 25, 2023 —
As the world continues to warm in response to human activities, glaciers and ice sheets continue to melt, which leads to sea-level rise.
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
Breaking Ice documentary features UM scientists on a mission to understand climate change
April 21, 2023 —
The feature-length film from local film production company Build Films, follows a group of scientists from the Centre for Earth Observation in the Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources as they conducted research to distinguish the effects of climate change from hydroelectric regulation of freshwater on Hudson Bay.
Meet some of UM’s climate changemakers
April 19, 2023 —
Four members of our community who are taking on climate change with ambition, resolve and hope. Watch their videos!
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
Harmony Mission is a Go
March 16, 2023 —
Harmony’s mission will feature two identical satellites which will fly in tandem alongside a Sentinel-1 satellite with the goal of providing a better understanding of three areas of Earth’s interconnecting systems: The ocean-atmosphere interface, land ice/sea ice, and tectonic strain/volcanic processes.
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
Seastars: the benthic equivalent to the polar bear
January 6, 2023 —
A national research group led by researchers at the University of Manitoba has shown that polar bears share the position of top predator of the coastal Arctic marine ecosystem with seastars (Amiraux et al. 2022).
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen’s research honoured with three international awards in 2022
November 22, 2022 —
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen has received the Balzan Prize, the Carlsberg Foundation Research Prize and been named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2022.
Actually, it is rocket science
November 18, 2022 —
Ferguson is an associate professor in mechanical engineering, the NSERC / Magellan Aerospace Industrial Research Chair in Satellite Engineering at UM, and the director of STARLab, a suite of projects based in the Price Faculty of Engineering and where he is telling me about his work.
Ice, ice, maybe
September 14, 2022 —
International team of researchers including UM scientists have used Artificial Intelligence (AI) and examined previous data from the satellites to discern between ice and ocean.
Culprit behind mass extinction identified, motive remains unknown
September 9, 2022 —
A team of scientists has found the mechanism that has triggered past extinction events