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My full name is Matthew Q'Mar Merrill Morison and it's my
fifth year at the university I'm completing two four-year degrees
BSc
double major in mathematics and physical geography
I had a chance to work with Dr. Danny Blair for two summers who's now
I guess the Associate Dean of Science and he has
definately served an inspiration in terms of his passion for his work and the
multitude of things that he's able to
do and deal with so
having him sort of as a...mentor figure for me is pretty
inspiring
taking class with him and he's really
helped me sort of develop academically and personally in and to become
passionate about academica in a sense for two years I had a chance
to work with Dr. Danny Blair but last summer as well I was working
in Churchill Manitoba as well as York Factory Manitoba up north collecting data
for a thesis I'm completing this year
and with Dr. Leane Fishback
an adjunct with the Department of Geography
and something really neat is the
collaboration between the Churchill Northern Studies Centre and the Department of Geography
here
they do alot of work together and a field course is run out of Churchill
every few years within
the department as well as
hosting students there to do either work as a research assistant or
collecting data for a thesis. I was in York Factory national
historic site collecting hydrologic groundwater data for a
thesis on modelling it's part of preservation project their trying to
save one of the oldest historic sites in Canada one thing that really interests me and
opportunity specifically that I have been researching into
is the field of climate modeling and building up
climate models so that they can run a little more efficiently because that's one of
largest problems
is having the computing power to sufficiently to run a climate model to
get
enough information from it in a reasonable amount of time and from computing power
like one of the most
powerful computers in the world is dedicated specifically to climate modelling
so it's neat
that there is such an interest in it and... but to make the process more
efficient and a little more accessible
be able to put more power behind it is obviously increasingly important
given the
influence of anthropogenic climate change to in terms of risks to our
society and
personally getting a chance to go up north where perhaps it will be hit the hardest
as a result of that has a little bit of an effect on me but
to be able to see that and have a chance to work on it.