Honours grad fords stream between water science and policy
"I was looking for a summer job on campus and got one in the hydrology lab in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences."
MeltDown: Is our planet in Crisis?
The U of A’s own Dr. Ian Stirling and expert glaciologist Dr. Martin Sharp will be joined by award-winning filmmaker James Balog to share what they’ve learned at a free public presentation and forum on June 12.
Regeneration of Little Ice Age bryophytes emerging from a polar glacier with implications of totipotency in extreme environments
Across the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, widespread ice retreat during the 20th century has sharply accelerated since 2004.
Melting Glaciers Cause One-Third of Sea-Level Rise
The world's glaciers lost 260 gigatons of water each year between 2003 and 2009, making these rivers of ice responsible for almost a third of sea-level rise in that time, new research finds. Martin Sharp and former EAS graduate students Alex Gardner and Anthony Arendt are co-authors on the paper.
Billion-year-old underground oasis
A reservoir of water at ~2.4 kilometers below the surface in the Canadian Shield turned out to be the oldest free water ever found so far. Dr. Long Li, is part of the team made this discovery.
