Author: CMOS Bulletin SCMO

Cold Arctic outflow winds cool and reoxygenate coastal waters in Bute Inlet, British Columbia

Written on October 5, 2022.

– By Jennifer Jackson, Jody Klymak, Keith Holmes, Wiley Evans, Alex Hare, Charles Hannah, Bill Floyd, Laura Bianucci, Di Wan– Anthropogenic climate change has led to the warming (Johnson et...

Future ocean changes: What can ecosystem models tell us?

Written on September 26, 2022.

– By Andrea Bryndum-Buchholz – Climate change is impacting all aspects of life across the globe. Oceans are becoming warmer and more acidic causing a cascade of consequences for marine life —...

Cold fingers: A potential new salt transport process under lake ice

Written on September 12, 2022.

– By Jason Olsthoorn – Introduction The more we look under lake ice, the more unexpected things we find. Recent field campaigns have shown that photoplankton levels under lake ice can be almost as...

Ocean Decade Community of Practice

Written on September 6, 2022.

– By Jia Yi Fan – The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (referred to as Ocean Decade) is an effort to catalyze action and innovation in order to achieve “the...

Recap: PRODIGY field school on Quadra Island

Written on September 1, 2022.

– By Isabelle Lao – In May 2022, leading faculty from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Victoria (UVic), and Waterloo (UWaterloo) held a weeklong field school at the Hakai Coastal...

Early Exploration of the High Latitude Stratosphere Part II: Discovery of the Polar Night Jet Stream

Written on August 23, 2022.

Early Exploration of the High Latitude Stratosphere Part II: Discovery of the Polar Night Jet Stream WRITTEN BY CMOS BULLETIN SCMO ON AUGUST 23, 2022. POSTED IN ATMOSPHERE, PAST...

Early Exploration of the High Latitude Stratosphere Part I: Pre-World War II Era

Written on August 18, 2022.

Early Exploration of the High Latitude Stratosphere Part I: Pre-World War II Era WRITTEN BY CMOS BULLETIN SCMO ON AUGUST 18, 2022. POSTED IN ATMOSPHERE, PAST ISSUES, WHAT’S CURRENT. –...

An overview of field work conducted on high-latitude mineral dust aerosol in the Ä’äy Chù Valley in Kluane National Park, Yukon

Written on August 7, 2022.

– By Arnold Downey – Mineral Dust Aerosol (MDA) is known to have an important influence on several environmental topics. Like all aerosol, MDA plays a role in the radiative balance of the...

Thermal stratification in lakes determines where fish are, but also modifies how well acoustic telemetry can detect them

Written on July 31, 2022.

– By Mathew Wells, Yulong Kuai, and Yulu Shi – The habitat usage of fish in large lakes and the coastal ocean is in part determined by thermal stratification, whereby fish choose regions that match...