Glaciers are essential for human life—a supply of consuming water, irrigation for our meals, clear vitality manufacturing and wholesome ecosystems. This yr, the United Nations is placing the highlight on the significance of glacier preservation for World Water Day.
The next College of Victoria consultants can be found to media to debate glacier preservation matters:
David Atkinson (Geography) is an knowledgeable in monitoring and predicting large-scale climate techniques and the affect of maximum climate occasions typically brought on by local weather change, and has put climate monitoring gear on Columbia and Nahanni icefields. He leads the BSc Local weather Science diploma program that trains college students to work with communities to mitigate the local weather disaster. (Contact: [email protected])
Jay Cullen (Earth and Ocean Sciences) is director of the Faculty of Earth and Ocean Sciences and an knowledgeable in chemical oceanography and the biogeochemistry of hint metals. His analysis explores how local weather change and regional warming, together with the melting of glaciers within the Arctic, affect hint steel concentrations within the ocean and associated biogeochemical cycles. At the moment, a PhD scholar within the Cullen lab is in Antarctica amassing and analyzing water samples on board the HMCS Margaret Brooke, as a part of the primary circumnavigation of South America and go to to Antarctica by a Royal Canadian Navy vessel. (Contact: [email protected])
Sophie Norris (Geography) is an knowledgeable in glacial erosion and constraining previous glacier and ice sheet responses to world climatic change. She makes use of a wide selection of geochronological, mapping and pc modelling instruments to quantify the speed of panorama change. (Contact: [email protected])
