Centre for Earth Observation Science

The Centre for Earth Observation Science (CEOS), housed in the Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources, is a leading research centre at the University of Manitoba focusing on understanding how the Earth will respond to climate change. Since its founding in 1994, CEOS has always been multidisciplinary and collaborative, drawing on researchers from different areas and faculties. CEOS researchers conduct their field work all over the world; however, the Arctic marine system has always been a unifying focus of activity because climate change affects this region more acutely than anywhere else in the world.

Faculty and Staff

Centre for Earth Observation Science

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Churchill Marine Observatory with northern lights aurora borealis in the sky

What we offer

Research

Research is the heart of what CEOS does every day. Working with researchers from many different fields and faculties allows for a high degree of collaboration and sharing of ideas. CEOS is also home to a diverse range of research facilities that feature world-class tools, enabling researchers to analyze specimens, data and more.

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World-leading facilities, labs and vessels

Research cannot be undertaken properly without the right tools and facilities to analyze specimens and conduct experiments. Fortunately, CEOS is home to some of the world’s best equipped and modern labs and facilities.

Houses of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland

Community and partners

CEOS is part of a number of national and international research initiatives. These partnerships allow UM researchers the opportunity to showcase their work on a greater stage as well as encourages collaboration from across the globe.

Researchers smiling and enjoying their time on the sea ice as one of them cores the ice

Student experience

Students in CEOS, both undergraduate and graduate, have the opportunity to study with some of the world’s leading researchers on projects that will impact the Earth for generations. Student who graduate from the program go on to have successful careers in academia, industry and government.

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peer reviewed publications in the past 10 years
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graduate students trained at CEOS
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research grants in the past 10 years
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authored policy documents, reports, and books in the past 10 years

A researcher installs equipment as the main crater vent of Fagradalsfjall erupts in the background. — Photo by Samuel Scott

Field stories

Students in CEOS conduct research that contributes to the global conversation on climate change and its effects on our planet. From their field research, they write stories and bring photos back from their experiences.

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Our team

Faculty, staff and researchers

Meet our acclaimed faculty, researchers and staff. Learn more about their contributions to climate science and how they are broadening the conversation about climate change and its impacts on us all.

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Joining CEOS

Any faculty member or research associate with affiliation to the University of Manitoba is welcome to join CEOS where there is good fit in research expertise, and there is a desire to positively contribute toward the development of proposals and the subsequent research in support of CEOS activities. Students supervised by CEOS members are encouraged to join CEOS.

Membership application

Current opportunities

Dr. David G Barber

Dr. David G Barber founded the Centre for Earth Observation Science in 1994. Through his leadership, CEOS has grown into an internationally recognized multidisciplinary and collaborative centre studying the complex inter-relationships between the different systems on Earth. He was a visionary researcher, a scholar with an entrepreneurial spirit, and a generous mentor.

Find out more about his legacy

Contact us

Centre for Earth Observation Science
535 Wallace Building
125 Dysart Rd.
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada

ceosinfo@umanitoba.ca

204-474-7602

204-272-1532