Deglaciated Soils: Microorganisms emerging from melting glaciers

Published: 1 February 2024

Growing up in Minnesota, McGill PhD student Scott Sugden spent a lot of time outdoors, particularly canoeing and backpacking in the Arctic. ...

New and renewed government funding for research in McGill's Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Published: 30 August 2023

Today, the Honourable Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages, on behalf of the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation,...

Whyte-led research among Québec Science's top 10 discoveries of 2022

Published: 25 January 2023

Three of the ten studies honoured by the award-winning science magazine Québec Science have c

A blueprint for life on MARS

Published: 7 July 2022

Lost Hammer Spring, in Nunavut in Canada’s High Arctic, is one of the coldest and saltiest terrestrial springs discovered to date. The water which travels up through 600 metres of permafrost to the...

McGill Space Research Conference

Tuesday, May 3, 2022toWednesday, May 4, 2022

What is Our Future in Space? /macdonaldCategory: Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Bicentennial Macdonald Campus Dept. of Natural Resource Sciences

New technique for finding life on Mars

Published: 22 January 2018

Researchers demonstrate for the first time the potential of existing technology to directly detect and characterize life on Mars and other planets. The study, published in Frontiers in Microbiology...

Nearing the limits of life on Earth

Published: 19 January 2016

Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars...

EXOMARS OUTBOUND IN SEARCH FOR LIFE SIGNS

Published: 22 March 2016

  Professor Lyle White, Natural Resource Sciences, is interviewed on his role in Mars exploration and the Exomars Space Probe. Listen to the interview      

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