Vermont's verdant valleys and mountains – bordered byCanadato the north,New Yorkto the west,Massachusettsto the south andNew Hampshireto the east – were settled by both the British and French early in the 18th century. After the French were defeated in the French and Indian War,Vermonters ...
Bike Share Toronto is Canada's second largest public bike share system. It provides a unique case study as it is one of the few bike share programs located in a relatively cold North American setting, yet operates throughout the entire year. Using year-round historical trip data, this study...
Arctic sea ice has shifted from a perennial (older, thicker ice) to a seasonal (younger, thinner) ice regime, leading to the increasingly common belief that shipping through Canada’s Northwest Passage is becoming more viable. Here, we use the Risk Index Outcome values derived from the Polar...
The global weather forecasts produced at Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) are computed using a coupled ocean–ice–atmosphere model (Smith et al., 2016). However, all operational data assimilation systems in use today at ECCC are still uncoupled, given that they are initialized with...
et al. Threats to coastal infrastructure in the arctic: a case study from herschel island, yukon territory, canada. Estuaries and Coasts 39, 900–915 (2016). Article Google Scholar Stopa, J. E., Sutherland, P. & Ardhuin, F. Strong and highly variable push of ocean waves on Southern...
The Annex I Parties (as amended at the 3rd Conference in December 1997) include Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the European Community, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liec...
According to the report, last winter brought the shortest snow season in 26 years for portions of Arctic Canada, and overall, Arctic snow melt is occurring one to two weeks earlier than historical averages. Less snow promotes further warming and increases the wildfire threat in the region. ...
A Rocky Mountain state, Idaho is bordered by Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Montana, Wyoming and a small portion of Canada’s British Columbia., Though Spaniards began exploring the Northwest in 1592, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were the first European-Americans to enter Idaho in 1805...
Canada has better national road safety than the US, for all varieties of reasons. First, keeping the roads and bridges in better shape, the infrastructure budget is higher across the board. Second, impaired driving rates are lower. Third, there’s plenty more space: wide-open freeways through...
Dr. Jan Dettmer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment at the University of Calgary, Canada and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. His research interests are in mathematical, computational, and environmental geophysics. I study new methods to ana...