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Ship with a soul: a brief history of CSS/CCGS Hudson (1963-2022)

Written on July 10, 2022.

– By Donald Gordon- After serving the Canadian oceanographic community with distinction for almost sixty years, the CSS/CCGS Hudson is being retired. Her history and that of the Bedford Institute...

Assessing Drift and Dispersion in Models of the St. Lawrence Estuary

Written on July 4, 2022.

– By Donovan Allum – 1. Introduction The largest estuary in the world is the St. Lawrence Estuary and connects the – aptly named – St. Lawrence River to the Gulf of St. Lawrence...

Timothy R. Parsons – Obituary for the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

Written on June 27, 2022.

Professor Timothy (Tim) R. Parsons (OC, FSRC) passed away in hospital on April 11, 2022, in the company of his family. Tim was one of Canada’s most eminent marine scientists and recipient of many national...

Measurement and Modelling of Snow in Arctic Tundra and Taiga Biomes: A Photo Story

Written on June 18, 2022.

– By Georgina Woolley –

The troposphere is expanding due to anthropogenic climate change

Written on May 30, 2022.

– By Jane Liu, Lingyun Meng, David W. Tarasick, William J. Randel, Andrea K. Steiner, Hallgeir Wilhelmsen, Lei Wang, Leopold Haimberger, and Wayne K. Hocking – The tropopause is a transition...

Nonlinear measurements might be expected to confound, but do they belong in a statistical model hierarchy?

Written on May 23, 2022.

– By Rick Danielson Jr – A statistician and physicist were discussing an experiment over a pot of tea, when this hypothetical exchange occurred: “I know we are working in the right units,...

Arctic Awesome: The Story of the ‘Cool’ Students of ‘Not Cool’

Written on May 17, 2022.

– By Halah Mhanni, Safia Soussi and Amy Mann – It is well known that the Arctic is warming around twice the global average, three times the global average in Canada. This substantial rate...

The retreat of Arctic glaciers that end in the ocean since 2000

Written on May 9, 2022.

– By Will Kochtitzky and Luke Copland – The glacier-ocean interface is a dynamic part of glacier and fjord systems. All glaciers, both land and marine-terminating, lose mass due to melt,...

Peatlands at COP26

Written on April 29, 2022.

– By Lorna Harris – Our planet is warming, and this will have profound impacts on ecosystems and the species that depend on them, including us. This was one of the main messages of the new...

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