Author: CMOS Bulletin SCMO
– 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
– 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 science...
Recap: PRODIGY field school on Quadra Island
– 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 Ecological...
Early Exploration of the High Latitude Stratosphere Part II: Discovery of the Polar Night Jet Stream
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 ISSUES, WHAT’S...
Early Exploration of the High Latitude Stratosphere Part I: Pre-World War II Era
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.
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An overview of field work conducted on high-latitude mineral dust aerosol in the Ä’äy Chù Valley in Kluane National Park, Yukon
– 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 atmosphere,...
Thermal stratification in lakes determines where fish are, but also modifies how well acoustic telemetry can detect them
– 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...
Monitoring climate change with the support of local communities in the Northwest Territories
– By Andy Vicente-Luis, Emma Riley, Elyn Humphreys, Philip Marsh, William Quinton, Oliver Sonnentag –
Arctic-boreal regions are warming rapidly, with increases in surface air temperatures over double...
Cities drive global warming, but change is possible
-By Hind Al-Abadleh-
Urban areas around the world are responsible for more than two-thirds of global greenhouse gases. At the same time, the impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly dire....