by Auriel Fournier Math and Statistics subject editor Conservation is hard, but in a perfect world it wouldn’t be – we’d need to do something to conserve a species or ecosystem and we’d have the resources to do it. That rarely happens. Not only are resources limited but how we decide what to conserve and […]
ecosystems
A Day Among Lapland Longspurs
Guest post by Catherine Doucet, MSc Biology and member of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) It is mid-June, 7 am, and I slowly get out of my tent to join other members of the crew already chatting over coffee. The sun is high and bright like it will be all day, since […]
Polar Week 2: Arctic zooplankton and climate change
GUEST POST by Jordan Grigor and Moritz Schmid Oceanography PhD students, Laval University Greenhouse gas-related atmospheric warming has led to an increase in average global temperatures of about 0.85°C between 1880 and 2012 (IPCC 2013). This increase is not evenly distributed: the Arctic is warming much faster than the temperate oceans. The most pessimistic predictions […]