No, it’s not an alien landscape. These are “frost blooms” on the water of the University of Manitoba’s Sea-ice Environmental Research Facility (SERF) at the Fort Garry Campus.You may hate the deep freeze that we have right now, but Feiyue Wang, professor of environment and geography in the Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources, and lead scientist at SERF, is absolutely delighted because these are perfect conditions for studies on how our climate is changing. Read more...