The powerful solar storm driving the aurora borealis over global skies last weekend was also triggering the movement of compasses deep in the ocean, as revealed in new scientific findings shared today by Ocean Networks Canada (ONC), a University of Victoria initiative.
Read more: Solar storm detected in deep sea observatories
The University of Victoria (UVic) is welcoming investments to support Canadian research and innovation detailed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a campus visit on Friday that included meeting faculty and students whose research is transforming the lives of Canadians every day.
Read more: UVic welcomes 2024 budget’s research support during Trudeau visit
The following UVic experts are available to media to discuss environmental and climate change topics ahead of Earth Day (April 22).
Read more: Experts on 2024 Earth Day
As ocean temperatures continue to rise due to climate change, marine plankton may be the newest candidate to act as an oceanic early alert system. According to a new Nature paper from UVic micropaleontologist Andy Fraass, and a team of international collaborators at the University of Bristol and Harvard University, an analysis of the fossil record shows that changes to community structure take place long before mass extinction occurs.
Read more: Marine fossil record reveals climate change insights
An international team of scientists led by astronomers at the University of Victoria has discovered an ancient group of stars orbiting our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The newly discovered satellite consists of only five dozen bright stars spread over a volume just 10 light years across. This is miniscule compared to the Milky Way, which contains over ten billion stars, and measures a hundred thousand light years in diameter.
Read more: Small, dark and ancient: Scientists discover a new (but old) Milky Way satellite
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.
Read more: World Water Day film screening
Olha Chaplia was finishing her dissertation in Ukraine when Russia launched a full-scale invasion in 2022. With aid from the emergency fellowship, she moved to Victoria to continue her research.
Read more: Studying Ukraine’s national literature in wartime
UVic’s co-op program launched a new initiative that helps students directly link their work to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. UVic co-operative education (co-op) students have always been changemakers—the work they tac…
Read more: Co-ops advance UN sustainability goals
From testing environmental stresses on plants to understanding mysteries of the universe, five University of Victoria (UVic) research projects received infrastructure support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).
Read more: Innovative UVic research gets a boost
Open any astronomy textbook to the section on white dwarf stars and you’ll likely learn that they are “dead stars” that continuously cool down over time. New research published in Nature is challenging this theory, with the University of Victoria (UVic) and its partners using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite to reveal why a population of white dwarf stars stopped cooling for more than eight billion years.
Read more: Discovery tests theory on cooling of white dwarf stars
The following University of Victoria experts are available to the media to discuss International Women’s Day and research on gender and women’s issues.
Read more: Experts on International Women’s Day
UVic geographer Jutta Gutberlet is helping communities of waste pickers in Brazil improve their working conditions, form co-operatives and advance social movements.
Read more: Upcycling lives
The University of Victoria and Equal Voice have partnered to host two events designed to address gender disparities in political leadership. Women Leading Change in Politics brings together inspiring leaders together with the community to share stories of leading change in politics as well as provide tools for change.
Read more: Panel, campaign school unpack gender parity in politics
On Saturday, Jan. 27 the University of Victoria recognizes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Read more: Recognizing International Holocaust Remembrance Day
UVic President’s Chair Nancy Clark has been working with Syrian men who have resettled in BC on a study that uses photography to explore the social determinants of Syrian men’s mental health.
Read more: Syrian men use photography to turn eye on mental health
Canadian and European experts in polar observation are joining forces in a new partnership that will see Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) operating a subsea observatory at the Spanish Antarctic Station, providing year-round, near real-time data on ocean conditions there—the first time that ONC will extend its ocean monitoring outside Canadian waters.
Read more: Canada and Spain scientists establish new Antarctic Ocean observatory