In just a few decades, the Arctic Ocean has become a dumping ground for plastic waste from the USA and Northwest Europe, shows a new study. Over time, plastics from as far away as China could also reach the Arctic.
What began as an undergraduate summer NSERC research position, resulted in the extraordinary opportunity to participate in the 2017 BaySys (Hudson Bay) system study currently underway. This included flying by helicopter onto sea ice in Hudson Bay to deploy a CEOS designed ice-mass balance buoy.
The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources and a number of other research-related knowledge centers and universities in 2015 launched a web portal www.isaaffik.org.
Changing sea ice in the Canadian Arctic is the inspiration behind SIKU (pronounced: see-coo) a new online social media and mapping platform, which is a finalist for the Google.org Impact Challenge.
The Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics (BFE) has a permanent position vacant as Professor / Associate Professor in marine botany. The position is attached to the Department of Arctic and Marine Biology (AMB) and the research group Arctic Marine System Ecology (AMSE) in Tromsø.
The 8th Annual Arctic Science Day was held Thursday, March 9th, and brought together students from Grades 7-12 together with research scientists from the University of Manitoba (CEOS) and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans on the frozen lakes of FortWhyte Alive.
