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A Record-Breaking Year on the Prairies: 2023 Weather Overview

Saskatchewan Research Council Environmental and Earth Sciences, General Science, Technology and Engineering
With several longstanding climate records shattered in 2023, Saskatchewan’s weather was right at home in a year full of impactful events. This year, SRC's Climate Reference Station (CRS) located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, logged record amounts of bright sunshine, record daily high temperatures and below average precipitation making 2023 the fifth driest year on record.

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Summer URA Position

Dan Gillis Communication, Education and Outreach, Science in Society, Technology and Engineering
If you’re an undergraduate student at the University of Guelph interested in research, you might want to check out this opportunity. Dr. Jarrett Phillips and I are looking for a student to work with us this summer to explore eDNA and data science! Job Title: Mining Association Rules for Environmental DNA (eDNA) Spatiotemporal Sampling JobContinue...

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Ph.D. Defence – Fatemeh Safari

Dan Gillis Communication, Education and Outreach, Science in Society, Technology and Engineering
Ph.D. candidate, Fatemeh Safari will defend her Ph.D. dissertation on Monday, August 22nd, at 1 pm. Fatemeh has spent several years developing and evaluating new routing protocols for use with Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). The defence will take place virtually. The title and abstract for the defence are provided below. Title: A Novel Quality-of-Service-AwareContinue...

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Ph.D. Defence – James Fraser

Dan Gillis Communication, Education and Outreach, Science in Society, Technology and Engineering
Join us on August 30th at 12 p.m. for the Defence of Ph.D Candidate, James Fraser. James will present his work exploring novice programmer profiles as determined through interaction with an immediate feedback tool that he created to support students learning to code. The defence will take place via Zoom. The title and abstract forContinue...

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Meet Our Experts: Exploring the Science Behind Diamond Recovery with Lucy

Saskatchewan Research Council Environmental and Earth Sciences, General Science, Technology and Engineering
As supervisor of SRC’s Diamond Services group, Lucy's specialized knowledge and expertise has helped expand the laboratory’s capabilities into diamond breakage and assessments. From academia to industry, learn how Lucy applied her love of science to become an industry-leading diamond expert.

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Dear Future CIS3750 Students

Dan Gillis Communication, Education and Outreach, Science in Society, Technology and Engineering
I’m looking forward to meeting you in CIS3750 – Systems Analysis and Design in Applications this fall. Since this is a required course for the Computer Science and Software Engineering majors, your enrolment in the course this fall will really depend on your schedule and the prerequisites required to take the course. Regardless, like CIS4020Continue...

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