Learn about ‘The Changing Face of Iceland’ at EUC film viewing and panel discussion

On Oct. 6 at 12 p.m. Eastern Time, join renowned filmmaker Mark Terry, a contract faculty member in York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC), for a film viewing and panel discussion on The Changing Face of Iceland, his new documentary about the impacts of climate change on the island nation of Iceland. The documentary examines the […]

Geography students take first-ever research field trip to Maui

How do you like the sound of this geography field trip? Ten days in Maui climbing cinder cones, snorkelling amongst coral reefs, trekking through rainforest – and doing research every step of the way. For Swannie Chan, a fourth-year geography student who really wanted field experience, the choice was clear: “Do I want to go to Hawaii […]

Geography graduate student Elizabeth Miller wins northern research award

"It’s expensive doing research up there" in the High Arctic, says Elizabeth Miller. Flying all your equipment and four months’ worth of food and supplies costs thousands of dollars when you have to transfer three times en route from Toronto – via Ottawa, Iqaluit and Resolute – to get to Polar Bear Pass on Bathurst Island. Research […]

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 […]

Kathy Young leads fellow scientists on an Arctic adventure

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 invitation-only 17th International Northern Research Basins Symposium & Workshop, the Arctic hydrologist and York geography professor had been planning this seven-day conference for two years. Veteran scientists, their graduate […]

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), […]