Murray Richardson's band Cousin John played at a local Ottawa bar Irene's tonight. It was their first gig! Pictured are Geoff Cass, Doug King (DGES Dept. Chair), Murray and Ryan Davies. Band member John Gillies is not pictured, but could be heard (you had to be there!).
Our ice island research was profiled in the May 2015 Sustaining Arctic Observing Network (SAON) Results Bulletin. This circular, managed by APECS Canada and the Canadian Polar Commission, provides updates to the Arctic research community and decision-makers on policy-relevant science, monitoring and assessment activities in the Canadian Arctic. […]
Stan Paterson Award in Glaciology The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies is proud to congratulate graduate student Jill Rajewicz on receipt of the 2015 Stan Paterson Award in Glaciology awarded by the Canadian Geophysical Union. The Stan Paterson Scholarship in Canadian Glaciology honours Dr. Stan Paterson, a preeminent Canadian Glaciologist who has worked extensively on glaciers in [...]
Check out the massive changes occurring in Canada's High Arctic! Michel Paquette, Daniel Fortier, Derek R. Mueller, Denis Sarrazin and Warwick F. Vincent (2015) Rapid disappearance of perennial ice on Canada's most northern lake. Geophysical Research Letters https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014GL062960/full
Congratulations to Miriam Richer-McCallum on successfully defending her MSc thesis: Discriminating different ice types with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery along the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
Congratulations to Adam Garbo on being awarded an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award for his work this summer on the Milne Glacier, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut!
Congratulations to Anna Crawford on being awarded the Fleming Scholarship for 2014-15!
Melissa Nacke gave a talk on her research to the Arctic Circle in Ottawa. See here for more details: https://carleton.ca/geography/2015/carleton-graduate-students-give-talks-arctic-circle-meeting/
Congratulations to Anna Crawford on publishing her paper "Surface ablation model evaluation on a drifting ice island in the Canadian Arctic" in Cold Regions Science and Technology (2015), pp. 170-182 dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2014.11.011
