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Indigenous Student Research and Learning

Explore Indigenous-led research, courses and pathways
in the Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources

Your Knowledge. Your Questions. Your Future.

Explore indigenous student learning, research opportunities, and pathways across environment, earth and resources.

Research Comes to Life Through People and Place

Meet the students, researchers and community partners asking questions that matter.

water and community

Story 01 | Water & Community 

Working with communities to understand environmental change 
Meet community partners and student researchers working together to understand environmental change

CanWIN student researcher Aiden Hindmarch works with Poplar River First Nation's Land Guardians on community-based water monitoring. Together, students and Guardians collect and manage water samples to support freshwater stewardship and the Nation's ownership and control of its data.

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Story 02 | Land & Learning

Learning from place through environmental research

Environmental Conservation Lab students Minket Lepcha (PhD) and Melanie Molin (master's) participating in a moose hunting activity with Mathias Colomb Cree Nation-Pukatawagan. Fall 2026. Photo: Melanie Molin

 

 

 

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Story 03 | Climate & Governance

Research that connects environmental evidence and decisions

Campus Visit: Students from Lynn Lake and Marcel Colomb First Nation on the Red River riverbank with Dr. Miguel Uyaguari-Diaz learning how to collect water samples for pathogen analysis. Spring 2026. Photo: Al Spence.

 

 

Find your way into research

Choose a topic. Find a course. Connect with a researcher. Take your next step.

Research grounded in relationships

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Tataskweyak Cree Nation fisherman Weldel Harvey and UM researchers
collecting zebra mussels with an Ekman grab sampler. Photo: Sarah Gledson
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Find the support and resources that fit your next step

Explore courses through your interests

Connect what you care about with courses, field learning and research across the faculty.  Visit the course catalog for availability

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Environment & Society
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Sustainability
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Weather & Climate
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Field Research
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Earth Systems
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Climate & Hazards
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Space & Planets
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Fossils & Past Life

Contact Us

Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
Room 440 Wallace Building
125 Dysart Road
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2

204-474-7252
204-275-3147