Environment Earth and Resources News Archive

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

Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
COP26 experience helps guide research
September 6, 2022 —
Through my experience at COP26, working at the Office of Sustainability, and through courses during the later years of my undergraduate degree I have been able to determine I want to focus on working with people and communities to solve climate issues.

Winnipeg Free Press: Rediscovered Morden shark fossil floats into ‘special’ territory
July 20, 2022 —
The remains of a member of an ancient shark species recently rediscovered at the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre are now on display in Morden.

Pinhole camera captures passage of time during pandemic
July 15, 2022 —
A solargraph captured by a pinhole camera with a very long exposure displays the daily path of the sun over the course of two years of the pandemic lockdown