A team of Dalhousie student researchers recently won a prestigious global ocean engineering challenge by tackling one of the fundamental problems in polar research: how to collect vital ocean data from sensors deployed beneath huge ice sheets.

“Fundamentally in STEM, you need the voices of everyone,” Dr. Pemberton Cyrus once said. “And if you have a diverse group working, you’ll actually get better answers.”

Sarty, who lives in Halifax and works remotely for California-based Mosaic, did her graduate work in Industrial Engineering working with a very different set of data — four years worth of information from the emergency department at Halifax’s IWK Health Centre.

When Wilfried Kindo moved to Canada from Africa in 2021 to begin his engineering degree at Dalhousie University, one of the biggest culture shocks he experienced was the dramatic change in weather.