Master’s student Michael Brown from Carleton’s Engineering Department received an amazing opportunity stemming from his fourth year design project in sustainable energy. With the help of students and faculty from Carleton University, Queen’s University and Algonquin College, he and his colleagues have been working to design and construct a net-zero-energy house called Echo.
Scientists at Carleton University along with researchers from around the world have concluded that global warming is forcing polar bears to change their diets. They have been eating less ringed seals and more harp and hooded seals which are often found in more industrialized areas containing toxins such as DDT, PCBs and POPs.
Associate Professor in biology and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Affairs at Carleton University, Naomi Cappuccino, along with entomologist Richard Casagrande from the university of Rhode Island have been working together to study the use of the Hypena Opulenta moth for consumption of invasive dog-strangling vines in Canada.