Glaciers are critical for human life—a source of drinking water, irrigation for our food, clean energy production and healthy ecosystems. This year, the United Nations is putting the spotlight on the importance of glacier preservation for World Water Day.
Water topics will be served three ways at UVic, in celebration of World Water Day. A resource fair, film screening and expert dialogue are on the docket for March 20, led by the POLIS Water Sustainability Project at UVic’s Centre for Global Studies.
A team of researchers led by UVic and the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre is attempting to regrow kelp forests, working closely with British Columbia coastal First Nations.
The following UVic experts are available to media to discuss environmental and climate change topics ahead of Earth Day (April 22).
The POLIS Project on Ecological Governance is hosting a film screening and conversation at the University of Victoria to showcase the importance of freshwater management and governance in celebration of World Water Day.
Hailey Davies, Vanier scholar, dives into fish welfare affected by noise pollution, leading rockfish conservation and fostering science literacy through outreach.
Andrew Ambers, who graduates this June with a degree in Indigenous Studies and political science, has combined his interests, research, heritage and thought-provoking perspectives on waterways to propose a promising new approach to resource management policy and law.
For 60 years, multiple experiences of UVic students and researchers across disciplines have been shaped by the ocean. From a campus that’s a few short steps from coastline, our engagement with the global ocean has defined UVic research and its breakthroughs.
UVic historian Elizabeth Vibert has produced a documentary, Aisha's Story, about Palestinian refugee Aisha Azzam, who is keeping Palestinian cultural legacies alive though growing and milling wheat.
Louie Lopez has been awarded a Liber Ero Post-Doctoral Fellowship to conduct Indigenous-led environmental DNA (eDNA) ecosystem monitoring with the Chipewyan Prairie Dene and Cold Lake First Nations in Alberta.
Geography grad student Kate Herchak is reclaiming her Inuk ways of knowing, being and doing in the world through cross-cultural research with Maasai youth.
Ripple effect: Global basins dry up and threats ecosystem
Newly published research from the Solid Carbon project shows that atmospheric carbon dioxide injected into the subsea floor off Vancouver Island may turn into solid rock in about 25 years.
Microplastics may pose a greater threat to marine food webs
UVic is leading a team that has been awarded a $1.65-million NSERC grant to train emerging engineers to work on water and sanitation projects in Canada and abroad.
Ocean staff and researchers are conducting work aimed at creating solutions that not only targets some of Canada’s current and future climate needs, but also provides real-world solutions that have the potential to change the world’s climate issues.
