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Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources

Department of Environment and Geography

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Environmental Conservation Lab

The Environmental Conservation Lab at the University of Manitoba works to examine the impacts of environmental degradation on communities around the world and their responses to these changes. We combine social and biological approaches to research, enhancing the quality of our research outcomes and promoting the importance of rural and indigenous knowledge.

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Stress Ecology Research Group

We are an eclectic group of researchers who seek to better understand the threats to our freshwater ecosystems – with science, logic and data as our guides.

Department of Earth Sciences

Manitoba Isotope Research Facility

Description: The MIRF offers hands-on opportunities for students and visiting scientists, and provides a wide array of analytical services for industry, academic, and government organizations world-wide.

Microbeam and Image Analysis Lab

The Microbeam Laboratory in Earth Sciences is set up as a regional facility to serve the needs of universities, industry and government.
Geophysical Laboratory

The University of Manitoba is a founding member of the Canadian POLARIS university-government-industry consortium which has geophysical equipment including satellite telemetred broad-band seismographs, broad-band magnetotelluric, and long-period magnetotelluric instruments.
Spectroscopy (X-Ray) Laboratory

The X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory in the Department of Earth Sciences, along with the Microbeam Laboratory, is a well-equipped facility that is widely viewed as the leading lab of its type in North America, if not the world.
Paleontology Laboratory

The Paleontology Laboratory is equipped for vertebrate fossil preparation and histology.
Environmental Nano-Geoscience Facility

The Environmental Nano-Geoscience Facility prepares Earth, environmental, and biomineralized samples for examination at the micro to nanometer scale.

Center for Earth Observation Science

Churchill Marine Observatory

The Churchill Marine Observatory (CMO) is a unique, highly innovative and multidisciplinary research facility located in Churchill, Manitoba, adjacent to Canada’s only Arctic deep-water port. The CMO is dedicated to studies on the detection, impact and mitigation of spills of oil and related contaminants in sea ice-covered waters, as well as extreme weather, climate change, and fresh-water marine coupling studies.

Sea-Ice Environmental Research Facility (SERF)

The Sea-ice Environmental Research Facility (SERF) is the first experimental sea-ice facility in Canada. Located on the campus of the University of Manitoba, the main feature of SERF is an outdoor seawater pool, equipped with a movable roof to control snow cover and ice growth, and various sensors and instruments to allow real-time monitoring.

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Ultra-Clean Trace Elements Laboratory (UCTEL+)

The Ultra-Clean Trace Elements Laboratory is an ultra-trace analytical laboratory at the University of Manitoba, dedicated to the study of environmental chemistry and biogeochemistry of trace elements.
UCTEL is a metal-free, Class 100 cleanroom laboratory with a Class 10 enclosure. All the lab counters and fume hoods are made of polypropylene.

Biogeochemistry Lab

CERC (Canada Excellence Research Chair) Lab is a biogeochemistry laboratory designed to study certain parameters on climate change in Polar Regions.

CERC Lab has capacity to study several physical, chemical and biological processes in sea ice, seawater, sediment, specimens, and atmosphere.

Petroleum Environmental Research Laboratory (PETRL)

PETRL is a laboratory designed for analysis of petroleum products and their chemical composition. PETRL consists of two labs; one for sample processing and one for sample analysis.

Cold Lab

The cold lab, at -26°C, allows scientists to work with snow and ice samples while retaining their natural properties. Ice cores are brought in from the field and their microstructure is analyzed in this lab.

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Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
Room 440 Wallace Building
125 Dysart Road
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2

Riddell.Faculty@umanitoba.ca

204-474-7252

204-275-3147

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Department of Environment and Geography

Environmental Conservation Lab

Stress Ecology Research Group

Department of Earth Sciences

Manitoba Isotope Research Facility

Microbeam and Image Analysis Lab

Geophysical Laboratory

Spectroscopy (X-Ray) Laboratory

Paleontology Laboratory

Environmental Nano-Geoscience Facility

Center for Earth Observation Science

Churchill Marine Observatory

Sea-Ice Environmental Research Facility (SERF)

Ultra-Clean Trace Elements Laboratory (UCTEL+)

Biogeochemistry Lab

Petroleum Environmental Research Laboratory (PETRL)

Cold Lab

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