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A Bad Situation in the Arctic
Arctic sea ice is in the midst of a record-breaking melt season. This is yet another symptom of human-caused climate change progressing much faster than scientists anticipated. Every year, the frozen...
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Permafrost Projections
During my summer at UVic, two PhD students at the lab (Andrew MacDougall and Chris Avis) as well as my supervisor (Andrew Weaver) wrote a paper modelling the permafrost carbon feedback, which was...
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Climate change and the jet stream
Here in the northern mid-latitudes (much of Canada and the US, Europe, and the northern half of Asia) our weather is governed by the jet stream. This high-altitude wind current, flowing rapidly from...
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Well, This is a Problem
The back gardens of Mayflower, Arkansas aren’t looking too good: Yes, that’s oil. Canadian oil, no less. You’re welcome. I’ve heard surprisingly little about this event, which occurred when an Exxon...
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Bits and Pieces
Now that the academic summer is over, I have left Australia and returned home to Canada. It is great to be with my friends and family again, but I really miss the ocean and the giant monster bats. Not...
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The Blue Mountains, Then and Now
During our time in Australia, my partner and I decided on a whim to spend a weekend in the Blue Mountains. This national park, a two-hour train ride west of Sydney, forms part of the Great Dividing...
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The Arctic Has Barfed
I was scanning my blog stats the other day – partly to see if people were reading my new post on the Blue Mountains bushfires, partly because I just like graphs – when I noticed that an article I wrote...
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A New Chapter
It has been a very busy few months. Here are some of the things I have done since I last wrote: Moved out of our apartment in Canada Spent three weeks in Ireland with my partner’s family – this was...
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My Cartoon Supervisors
My supervisors are so distinguished that they now exist in cartoon form! If that’s not the mark of a successful science communicator, I’m not sure what is. Here is Katrin: And here is Matt: A former...
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My Research with Steve
Almost four years ago I took a job as a summer student of Dr. Steve Easterbrook, in the software engineering lab of the University of Toronto. This was my first time taking part in research, but also...
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