CBC All in a Day – Krypton
CBC Radio’s All In A Day is Ottawa’s number one afternoon drive program — and covers all of Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec. Check out our […]
Understanding Carbon Cycling in a Perennially Ice-Covered Lake of East Antarctica
Among the most rewarding experiences for graduate students is the opportunity to present their research results before their peers at scientific conferences. Earlier this year, Nicole […]
CBC All in a Day – Protactinium
CBC Radio’s All In A Day is Ottawa’s number one afternoon drive program — and covers all of Eastern Ontario and West Quebec. Check out our […]
Swagelok Collaboration with AEL AMS
The University of Ottawa collaborated with Swagelok on the design and construction of its Advanced Research Complex, a facility housing Canada’s only accelerator mass spectrometer. Swagelok’s […]
Radiocarbon Sampling in Old Crow, Yukon
After five months of graduate school, master’s student Lindsay Reynolds had already become an accomplished postgraduate researcher. Not long after deciding to leave her Alberta home […]
‘Spectacular’ Mummified Ice Age Wolf Pup
Rare, mummified remains of two ice age animals — a caribou calf and a wolf pup — have been dug up from the permafrost by gold […]
Ice age throwback: 13,000-year-old footprints found off Canadian coast
Searching the shoreline sediment of British Columbia’s Calvert Island, researchers uncovered 29 footprints that are 13,000 years old…
Radiocarbon dating solves 48-year-old museum mystery in Peterborough
Larry Reeve was fishing Pigeon Lake on May 24, 1970, when he made a discovery that would remain a partial mystery for almost 50 years…
Incredible’ 900-year-old copper arrowhead discovered on Canadian mountain
A rare copper arrowhead discovered on a remote Canadian mountain is almost 900 years old, archaeologists have confirmed…
Anne-Martine Doucet, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
With a passion for Earth and environmental sciences, Anne-Martine wears more than one hat, as a student in the CO-OP program and as the captain of […]
A Visit from Bill Morneau and Dr. Mona Nemer
Our government reinstated the Chief Science Advisor because we understand the value of evidence-based decision making. Yesterday, I was delighted to meet with @ChiefSciCan and @KirstyDuncanMP […]
Underwater faunal assemblages: radiocarbon dates and late Quaternary vertebrates from Cold Lake, Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada
Late Quaternary faunal remains from three underwater settings in Cold Lake, Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada, include at least 13 vertebrate taxa…
Dr. R Jack Cornett Passion for Life and Science Award
The family, friends and the Faculty of Science colleagues at the University of Ottawa were devastated by the news of the sudden death of Jack Cornett…
CFI provides $18.5 M boost to research on neuromuscular diseases, cancer-fighting viruses, the power of light and radioactive atoms
Canada’s only accelerator mass spectrometer, housed at the University of Ottawa’s Advanced Research Complex, will receive a $3.8-million upgrade to improve its ability to measure rare […]
Highlights from AMS14
In August of 2017, the AEL AMS Laboratory had the honour of hosting the 14th International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry…
Remembering Ryan Bolen
Ryan Bolen, Ph.D. student under the supervision of Dr. Liam Kieser, Professor in the Department of Physics, and Dr. Jack Cornett, Professor in the Department of […]
World’s largest hoard of carbon dates goes global
Radiocarbon dating has long been used to reveal the age of organic materials — from ancient bones to wooden artefacts. Scientists are now using the amassed […]
When Modern Science Connects with the Past
In 1912, and again in 1915, William J. Wintemberg, an archaeologist with the National Museum of Canada (today the Canadian Museum of History), excavated a site […]
Canada Foundation for Innovation awards $2.6M to André E. Lalonde Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) Laboratory for ground-breaking isotope detection and analysis
The Canada Foundation for Innovation has awarded a $2.6 million grant to support the André E. Lalonde Accelerator…
Essential government funding announced for some of Canada’s leading national research facilities
Canada’s researchers rely on state-of-the-art labs and facilities where they can work and make discoveries that help support a strong economy, healthy society and growing middle […]
Essential government funding announced for some of Canada’s leading national research facilities
Canada’s researchers rely on state-of-the-art labs and facilities where they can work and make discoveries that help support a strong economy, healthy society and growing middle […]
Essential government funding announced for some of Canada’s leading national research facilities
Canada’s researchers rely on state-of-the-art labs and facilities where they can work and make discoveries that help support a strong economy, healthy society and growing middle […]
How to build an ARC
The Advanced Research Complex (ARC) is a five-storey, customized building on the University of Ottawa campus housing some of the world’s most leading-edge equipment for photonics […]
Research perspectives – Atomic tour de force
It filled five 12-metre shipping containers on its overseas journey to Canada from the Netherlands, where it was built. Fully assembled, it is 25 metres long […]
Research Perspectives – The launch of uOttawa’s ARC
“The Advanced Research Complex will provide the foundation for strengthening the University of Ottawa’s national and international leadership in the fields of photonics and Earth sciences.”- […]
