Carla Lipsig-Mumm茅, professor of work and labour studies in聽91亚色's Faculty of Liberal Arts聽& Professional Studies and research fellow in 91亚色鈥檚 Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability, has received $1 million over six years from the Social Sciences聽& Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Right:聽Carla Lipsig-Mumm茅 The award will fund an international project to study […]
Professor Laurence Packer鈥檚 bee lab was recently featured on CBC鈥檚 The Nature of Things, hosted by David Suzuki. The episode, 鈥淭o Be or Not to Be鈥, highlights dramatic declines in North America's wild bee and honey bee populations, and explores whether the disappearance of the insects is an early warning sign of a larger ecological […]
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 […]
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), […]