Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources University of Manitoba

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Faculty of Environment, Earth, and
ResourcesUniversity of Manitoba

• Opened doors in 2003
• Founding Units
• Natural Resources
• Environment and Geography
• Geological Sciences

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Accomplishments

• Teaching
• Student Success
• Research- (3CRCs, (potentially 4) NSERC, SSHRC,
  CFI)
• Outreach and Service

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Strategic Priorities

• 5 Strategic Goals Faculty Development, Teaching,
  Research, Outreach/Service, Environmental
  Responsibility

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1. Faculty Development

• To establish a premier environmental faculty
  that reaches the highest standards of teaching,
  research, and environmental responsibility and
  that becomes and is known as one of the best in
  Canada, North America and the world.

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2. Teaching

• To provide diverse and challenging learning
  environments and offer excellent undergraduate
  and graduate educational opportunities that
  emphasize integrated environmental perspectives
  and that prepare students for environmental
  professions and careers

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3. Research and Scholarship

• To generate new and meaningful knowledge and
  applications through development and
  implementation of relevant programs of research
  and scholarship and to promote inter-disciplinary
  as well as disciplinary research that draws on
  the strengths of faculty members in the Faculty
  and University (and beyond)

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Research Facilities
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4. Service and Outreach

• To provide service to the University, communities
  and Professions
• To provide service and advice to diverse
  constituents citizens and decision-makers to
  help address environmental challenges and to
  translate new knowledge into effective policy

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Service and Outreach Objectives and Strategies

• Forge partnerships (External Advisory Board,
  Aboriginal communities, organizations)
• Develop new opportunities for research on
  Manitoba and regional environmental problems
• Increase international outreach
• Promote increased service

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5. Environmental Responsibility

• To promote ecological and environmental literacy,
  responsibility, and sound environmental practices
  throughout the university and the community.

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Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources

• purpose
• contribute to understanding the changing
  earth, environment, and human condition and to
  disseminate and apply this knowledge for the
  benefit of the present and future

• interdisciplinary

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Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources

• Academic Units

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Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources

• Undergraduate Programs
• Bachelor of Science (Geology)
• Bachelor of Science (Geophysics)
• Bachelor of Science (Environment andGeography)
• Bachelor of Arts (Geography)
• Bachelor of Environmental Science (B.Env.Sc.)
• Bachelor of Environmental Studies (B.Env.St.)
• General (3 yr), Major (4 yr) and Honours (4 yr)
  Programs
• Cooperative Education Option

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Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources

• Graduate Programs
• Master of Environment
• MSc Environment and Geography (In Process)
• MA, PhD, Environment and Geography
• MSc, PhD Geological Sciences
• Master of Natural Resources Management
• PhD Natural Resources and Environmental
  Management

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• in addition to physical and biological aspects,
  each environmental issue has cultural, social,
  economic and ethical dimensions.

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RESEARCH

• Biogeography, Ecosystem Management
• Ecosite-based decision support system for
  sustainable forest management

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Faculty of Environment, Earth, and
Resources RESEARCH

• Arctic System Science
• understand process of mass and energy fluxes
  across the ocean-sea-ice atmosphere interface.
• global climate change and high latitude processes

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Longitudinal field studies (C-ICE, NOW, CASES)
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Water quality Churchill River
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Sharing habitat
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Aerial Tracking Elk Riding Mountain National
Park, Manitoba
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Elk Capture and CollaringRiding Mountain
National Park, Manitoba
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Ground Tracking
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Delta Marsh water quality study
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Protecting habitat
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Career resources on the web
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• Faculty of Environment
• Climate Change and Variability

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Capacity building IT Education exchange
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An Ecosite-Based Decision Support System for
Sustainable Forest Management
NSERC Joint Partnership Program Sponsors
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Ecosite Attributes Mapping

• Accurate Identification of Ecosites on the ground
  is required for the DSS.
• Current Forestry database attributes are
  insufficient.
• Using above-canopy measurement to understand
  scaling.

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NOW
International North Water Polynya
Study  Overview and Progress Report
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A Canadian Research Icebreaker to Study the
Changing Arctic Ocean
A proposal submitted to the International Joint
Ventures Fund of the Canada Foundation for
Innovation
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Shipbased sampling
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Icebreaker support
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SBI Shelf-Basin Interactions
CASES Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study
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ArcticNet A Network of Centres of Excellence to
study the changing Arctic Merges Natural
Sciences, Health Sciences Social Sciences
45M over 7 years, renewable
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The Warming Arctic
John Walsh U. Illinois
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CCCma model projects seasonally ice free Arctic
by mid century.
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Lead - L. Fortier (Laval)
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Lead - W. Vincent (Laval)
Theme 2
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Lead - D. Barber (Manitoba)
Theme 3
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Lead - G. McBean (Western)
Theme 4
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Faculty of Environment, Earth, and
ResourcesUniversity of Manitoba