New seahorse species named after UBC marine conservationist - The University of British Columbia

Over the past year, researchers across the Faculty of Applied Science secured $97.5 million in research funding from Canadian and international partners, bringing the faculty’s five-year average to approximately $100 million annually. This sustained financial stability provides a strong foundation for researchers to think big, take bold risks and develop workable solutions to some of society’s most pressing global challenges. The newly released 2025/26 Applied Science Research Report highlights how collaborative nursing, architecture, landscape architecture, planning and engineering initiatives across UBC’s Vancouver and Okanagan campuses are generating tangible economic impacts and helping to guide national and provincial priorities. “I see the role of our Faculty as turning knowledge into possibility—driving innovation, strengthening productivity and building Canada’s future prosperity.” – Dr.

The spacecraft delivered materials and equipment for new research studies to the station.

Mud from a fjord shows an Atlantic air pattern brought wetter, colder spells to southern Greenland, a clue to how its ice may fare. Greenland’s ice is shrinking as the planet warms. But in the island’s southwest, rainfall and snowfall have been influenced by the same North Atlantic air-pressure pattern for at least 5,000 years. When that pattern tipped one way, the region turned wetter and colder. The record comes from mud on the floor of a Greenland fjord, and it suggests snowfall, not only temperature, shaped how the area’s ice grew and shrank. It doesn’t yet show how glaciers there will respond to the warming ahead. Johan Faust, a researcher at MARUM, the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen in Germany, led the work with colleagues in Germany, Norway, Denmark and Canada. A seesaw in the airThe pattern is called the North Atlantic Oscillation. It’s the difference in air pressure between a low that sits near Iceland and a high near the Azores, and it’s strongest in winter. When that difference is large, the pattern is in its positive phase. Northwestern Europe and southwestern Greenland both get more rain and snow.