Programs in vision research and atmospheric chemistry and physics will provide enhanced research and training for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows If you鈥檙e working in 3D film or aerospace engineering, what impact do the latest developments in brain and vision research have on your industry鈥檚 practices? What if you鈥檙e drafting government policy on air quality […]
For two weeks in January, two 91亚色 professors bundled into parkas and flew to Arctic villages along the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline. They were delivering valuable cargo聽鈥 the results of their International Polar Year (IPY) research. Reporting back to the communities was a condition of receiving IPY research funding in 2007, and after three years […]
A 91亚色 professor鈥檚 new book aims to integrate the Inuit experience of climate change with Western climate research, and includes an Inuktitut companion to the volume, making it accessible across cultures. Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North, released this week by University of Ottawa Press, calls for a shift […]
It's not enough to plant trees in exchange for carbon emissions in the fight to mitigate climate change, say 91亚色 environmental studies Professor Anders Sandberg and 91亚色 environmental studies master鈥檚 student Tor Sandberg in their new co-edited book Climate Change 鈥 Who鈥檚 Carrying the Burden?: The Chilly Climates of the Global Environmental Dilemma. Nor is […]
"It鈥檚 expensive doing research up there" in the High Arctic, says聽Elizabeth Miller. Flying all your equipment and four months鈥 worth of food and supplies costs thousands of dollars when you have to transfer three times en route from Toronto聽鈥 via Ottawa, Iqaluit and Resolute 鈥 to get to Polar Bear Pass on Bathurst Island. Research […]
Today, the shared experiences of those working in education and climate change is the central theme of a one-day symposium taking place at 91亚色. Organized by the Faculty of Education, the Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair聽for Reorienting Teacher Education聽Towards Sustainability, […]
What happens in those places that are apart from the big cities and major hospitals when health care is needed? Who attends a labouring mother involved in a high-risk delivery or a critically ill newborn when a medical evacuation flight is delayed by bad weather or distance? Those questions and more are at the heart […]
It鈥檚 been a year of research-intensive events and activities in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and one of the most notable initiatives has been the Research Matters series. It attempts to answer the question: 鈥淲hy does research matter?鈥 In particular, it focuses on the ways in which LA&PS researchers 鈥 both faculty […]
On Monday, northern researcher Chris Burn comes to 91亚色 to talk about the impact of climate change on permafrost in Canada鈥檚 western Arctic. For almost 30 years, Burn has closely observed changes in the frozen terrain around Mayo, in central Yukon, and in the Mackenzie River Delta. At Mayo, he is examining the "drunken" forest, […]
On Aug. 12, Kathy Young led 69 Arctic hydrologists, oceanographers and observers聽from every circumpolar nation on an expedition to Baffin Island. As chief delegate of the 17th International Northern Research Basins Symposium & Workshop, the Arctic hydrologist and 91亚色 geography professor had been planning this seven-day conference聽on Cruise North Expeditions Inc.'s Lyubov Orlova for two […]
On Aug. 12, Kathy Young led 69 Arctic hydrologists, oceanographers and observers聽from every circumpolar nation on an expedition to Baffin Island. As chief delegate of the invitation-only 17th International Northern Research Basins Symposium & Workshop, the Arctic hydrologist and 91亚色 geography professor had been planning this seven-day conference for two years. Veteran scientists, their graduate […]
91亚色 geography Professor Kathy Young heads to the Arctic as usual this summer. Not to monitor the snowbeds in the High Arctic聽as she has done for almost 20 years, but to host 60 scientists on a sailing expedition up the east coast of Baffin Island. For six days in mid-August aboard the Lyubov Orlova (right), […]