– By Robert W. Park and Douglas R. Stenton –
Background
The basic details are well-known: in May of 1845 two Royal Navy ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, departed Great Britain under the...
– UPEI Climate Lab team led by Dr. Adam Fenech, and including Dr. Xander Wang, Don Jardine, Ross Dwyer, Andy MacDonald, Luke Meloche, and Catherine Kennedy –
Coastal erosion is the primary...
-By Caroline Floyd-
Hurricane Fiona, flooding in British Columbia, massive hailstorms in Calgary – catastrophic events have increasingly captured Canadian headlines in recent years. Insured losses to...
-By Jeff Ollerhead, Robin Davidson-Arnott, and Bernard O. Bauer-
Figure 1: A) Foredune erosion at the Greenwich Dunes eastern beach access post-Fiona (photo taken west to east). The inset shows the...
-By Sophia C. Johannessen and Jules M. Blais-
This retrospective was first published on FACETS on 22 September 2022.
Robie (Rob) Macdonald studied large-scale ocean systems, including the global carbon...
– 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 Lumpkin,...
– 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 — heightened...
– 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...
– 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...