The long cold winter has resulted in an unusual occurrence: almost all of the Great Lakes have completely frozen over. It’s been 20 years since we’ve last seen this happen. Cheryl Robertson, an Environmental Science doctoral student at UTSC, researches the impact of climate change on the Great Lakes shipping industry. She recently spoke with… Read More

You may have heard about “frostquakes” with the recent cold weather in the GTA and other areas of Southern Ontario. You may even have heard one yourself. Professor Bill Gough, a climatologist at UTSC, discusses this phenomenon with one of his graduate students, Andrew Leung, a second-year student in the UTSC PhD program in Environmental… Read More

By Gilbert Ndikubwayezu Three students in UTSC’s Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences have scooped awards at a high-profile joint conference of American and Canadian geographers. At the 2013 annual conference organized by the Ontario division of the Canadian Association of Geographers this October, both Jerry Jien and Yukari Hori won the doctoral essay contest,… Read More

Torontonians are still picking up the pieces following the massive rainstorm that swept through the city Monday night. UTSC Climatology Professor Bill Gough and third year Environmental Science doctoral student Jerry Jien, who recently published a paper together on the impact of hurricanes on extreme rain events in southern Ontario, talk about the storm that… Read More