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The University of Manitoba is taking the lead in understanding how ice and oil mix. Drilling in the Arctic will happen. The University of Manitoba’s $32 million Churchill Marine Observatory will help ensure it happens responsibly.

The Centre for Earth Observation Science (CEOS) at the University of Manitoba, is launching a new research program to understand the contributions of climate change and hydro-electric regulation to the variability and change of freshwater-marine coupling in the Hudson Bay System.  The BaySys stud

We are a team looking into the oceanographic conditions at St Nord (81°N). This year we have focus on how sea ice and glaciers interact with the ocean. We are a part of the Arctic Science Partnership and we are the third team to come up here.

An introduction to the GEOTRACES program, involving a science team from the Centre for Earth Observation Science (University of Manitoba), led by Dr. Feiyue Wang. 

Read about the CEOS/UofM team's transit up St Lawrence River, a surprise diversion enroute to participating in the international GEOTRACES program. 

The Arctic Ocean lies in one of the most remote regions of the planet, thousands of miles away from industrial cities and mining operations that release anthropogenic mercury to the environment.

There is renewed hope for the critically endangered population of bowhead whales in North-East Greenland. The good reports come after researchers in 2009 observed a record number of individuals, which were seen again this summer.
Invitation to participate in an Open Think-Tank
In April 2015 Heather Kyle and Yubin Hu went to Station Nord, Greenland as participants on Leg 1 of the 2015 ASP research campaign at the Villum Research Station.
State-of-the-art research station will closely monitor the severe climate change taking place in the Arctic. Researchers from all over the world have booked stays at the research station.

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