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Master in Environmental & Social Change (MSc, MA, MEnv) @ The University of Winnipeg. Fully funded scholarship and fellowship





The new Master in Environmental & Social Change (MSc, MA, MEnv) program offered through the Department of Geography and Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences at The University of Winnipeg has 14 fully funded positions for excellent students in the following areas:

Catchment Biogeochemistry (MEnv or MSc)

Impacts of climate change on carbon and nutrient cycling in boreal forested catchments

 Soil Science (MEnv or MSc)

 Selection of amendments to immobilize potentially toxic trace elements released from intermittently flooded agricultural soils
    
Soil amendments to reduce phosphorus losses from flooded soils in Manitoba

Environmental Governance (MEnv or MA)

 A First Nation community-university partnership for capacity enhancement in forest land governance
 Climate learning and adaptation for northern development
 Harnessing economic, social and political changes forced by COVID-19 to advance adaptation: Rerouting institutional pathways for improved social-ecological resilience

Forest Ecology (MEnv or MSc)

Susceptibility of protected black ash stands to potential regulation of spring lake water level, northern Quebec: a biodiversity conservation issue

Planetary Science (MEnv or MSc)

Searching for biosignatures on Mars
Exploring the Moon for in-situ resources
Analysis of returned asteroid samples: insights into prebiotic chemistry
Oil sands: clays and environmental effects

Climate Science Communication (MA, MEnv, MSc)

Climate change communications: the science of storytelling
Indigenous ways of knowing and climate change

Applications are now open for a Fall 2021 start date.

Dr. Ryan Bullock

Canada Research Chair in Human-Environment Interactions

Co-Chair, Master in Environmental and Social Change (MESC) program  

Associate Professor, Environmental Studies & Sciences

The University of Winnipeg

P: 204.988.7594 ; E: r.bullock@uwinnipeg.ca





Vineesh V
Assistant Professor of Geography,
Directorate of Education,
Government of Kerala.
http://geogisgeo.blogspot.com

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