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December 19, 2022

Ice, Ice, Maybe

It's a gusty, grey morning in late November, and a small crew of Carleton University engineers and scientists are marshalling beside the Rideau Canal, halfway between downtown Ottawa and campus. They're here to install monitoring... More

November 1, 2022

Climate Research Close to Home: Carleton faculty and students study the carbon cycle at Ottawa’s...

Climate Research Close to Home: Carleton faculty and students study the carbon cycle at Ottawa’s Mer Bleue bog

The Mer Bleue Bog, a conservation area in Ottawa's east end greenbelt, is a popular destination for people who want to immerse themselves in birdsong and natural beauty. But at the end of a narrow... More

September 7, 2021

Carleton Students Connect Classes to Community in Northern Field Course

On a sunny, mid-July morning in Dawson City, Yukon, Carleton University Geography master’s student Astrid Schetselaar hops into the passenger seat of a pickup truck and departs for a three-day drive up the Dempster Highway.... More

August 27, 2020

Carleton’s Derek Mueller Studies Consequences of Climate Change in Canada’s Arctic

The Milne Ice Shelf on the northwest coast of Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island has broken up, reducing in size by almost half and setting large ice islands adrift in the Arctic Ocean. Ice shelves are thick,... More

July 4, 2018

Frozen Canoes

The last shovel of dirt on a strand of gravel connecting a tiny town to a nearby hamlet rarely marks a national milestone, but when the ribbon was cut on the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway in November... More