Prof receives $1 million from SSHRC for climate change project

Carla Lipsig-Mummé, professor of work and labour studies in York's Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and research fellow in York’s Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability, has received $1 million over six years from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Right: Carla Lipsig-Mummé The award will fund an international project to study […]

Video: Professor Laurence Packer featured on The Nature of Things

Professor Laurence Packer’s bee lab was recently featured on CBC’s The Nature of Things, hosted by David Suzuki. The episode, “To Be or Not to Be”, highlights dramatic declines in North America's wild bee and honey bee populations, and explores whether the disappearance of the insects is an early warning sign of a larger ecological […]

Of fiords and bears and bergy bits

On Aug. 12, Kathy Young led 69 Arctic hydrologists, oceanographers and observers from every circumpolar nation on an expedition to Baffin Island. As chief delegate of the 17th International Northern Research Basins Symposium & Workshop, the Arctic hydrologist and York geography professor had been planning this seven-day conference on Cruise North Expeditions Inc.'s Lyubov Orlova for two […]

York professor hosts 'floating' conference of Arctic scientists

York geography Professor Kathy Young heads to the Arctic as usual this summer. Not to monitor the snowbeds in the High Arctic as she has done for almost 20 years, but to host 60 scientists on a sailing expedition up the east coast of Baffin Island. For six days in mid-August aboard the Lyubov Orlova (right), […]