Geosciences

Working the Line: Maintaining the border in Canada’s wilderness (photo gallery)

As a surveyor for the International Boundary Commission, Joe Harrietha “works the line” in locating and maintaining the vast Canada–United States border. The Canadian section of the Commission is part of Natural Resources Canada, and he’s worked in some of the most remote and scenic areas in Canada for more than 25 years. These photos are from some of his expeditions.

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Arctic Geosciences

Working the line: tales from the 141st Meridian

An account of Joe Harrietha’s 2017 expedition on the Yukon–Alaska border.

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Arctic Geosciences

A global information highway to meet the challenges of a fragile Arctic ecosystem

OTTAWA - Climate change affects the Arctic in different ways. Regional impacts include coastal erosion, evolving ocean currents and temperatures, shifting migration patterns over land and sea, and melting permafrost that heaves buildings and roads.

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Arctic Climate change Geosciences Mining

Measuring the shake, rattle and roll in Canada’s Western Arctic

Travelling and working in remote regions of Canada’s North is no easy task. Ask Natural Resources Canada seismologist Andrew Schaeffer, who ventured to the Northwest Territories (NWT) this summer to better understand earthquakes and related natural hazards.

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Arctic Climate change Geosciences Natural hazards

Monitoring seismic activity in Canada’s North

Canada’s southwestern Arctic is of special interest to scientists exploring the interrelated roles of seismic activity, climate change and coastal erosion.

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Arctic Climate change Geosciences Natural hazards

Learning from Tragedy – The 1929 Tsunami (Ask NRCan)

Marine geoscientist Calvin Campbell joins us to talk about the importance of a specific underwater landslide that caused a massive tsunami in Newfoundland back in 1929. Calvin is part of a team studying this historical landslide, and shares with us recent findings that changed our perception of the event.

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Climate change Geosciences

Machine Mapping Canada: training technology to complete the picture

As the second-largest country in the world, Canada has a lot of territory and different types of land cover to map, including urban areas, water, desert, rock, ice and snow formations.

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Geosciences Maps

The gift of reading for science buffs

Books have long helped us understand science and the natural world around us. In fact, Natural Resources Canada is home to the oldest science library in Canada, dating back to 1854.

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Climate change Geosciences Maps Mining

Incorporating Artificial Intelligence (Ask NRcan)

Like many organizations, the Government of Canada is exploring ways to incorporate artificial intelligence into our work to make us more efficient and effective. On this episode, we’ll learn what artificial intelligence is, and we’ll see how it can be used to solve problems that the natural resource sectors are facing.

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Energy Forestry and insects Geosciences Maps Mining Natural hazards

Canada as never seen before: The new RADARSAT Constellation Mission

A trio of Earth observation satellites launched in June 2019 is providing Canadians with a more detailed picture of our country and oceans than ever before.

Known collectively as the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM), these satellites mark a significant upgrade to Canada’s RADARSAT program. And by using a new imaging technology assessed and recommended by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), RCM images provide scientists with more information to better understand our planet.

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Geosciences Natural hazards

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Geosciences

Working the Line: Maintaining the border in Canada’s wilderness (photo gallery)

Working the line: tales from the 141st Meridian

A global information highway to meet the challenges of a fragile Arctic ecosystem

Measuring the shake, rattle and roll in Canada’s Western Arctic

Monitoring seismic activity in Canada’s North

Learning from Tragedy – The 1929 Tsunami (Ask NRCan)

Machine Mapping Canada: training technology to complete the picture

The gift of reading for science buffs

Incorporating Artificial Intelligence (Ask NRcan)

Canada as never seen before: The new RADARSAT Constellation Mission

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