It may seem a bit idiosyncratic for a Canadian university to build a special experimental facility for making ice (and hockey is not involved), but this research laboratory may be the key to helping scientists better understand climate change.
The Sea-ice Environmental Research Facility (SERF) is the first of its kind in Canada: a large, outdoor, […]

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Preeminent sea-ice research David Barber is teaming up with the world’s foremost geomicrobiologist to study Arctic system processes.
Barber, director of the Centre for Earth Observation Science (CEOS) at the University of Manitoba and a Canada Research Chair in Arctic system science, is one of the world’s leading experts on the dynamic and thermodynamic processes […]

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University of Manitoba researchers and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra have teamed up for the first time to bring a night of new music and new science to the stage.
In July of 2007 Professor David Barber, Canada Research Chair in Arctic System Science, began the Circumpolar Flaw Lead System (CFL) study. Involving 300 researchers from around […]

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When it comes to predicting severe weather such as thunderstorms and tornadoes, it’s all about data.
The more weather data researchers and forecasters have, and the more they understand the data they’ve collected, the better chance they have of predicting storms and warning the public about their imminence.
A project that aims to increase the understanding of […]

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