Planetary Volatiles Laboratory

 Ahh, summertime! You'd be surprised by the number of people who think us academics just get four months of vacation. Instead, it's ...

Every summer, we host undergraduates in the lab at the PVL and during the year we bring in volunteers to experience what professional resear...

Our spacecraft are more than just our robotic avatars on other planets. They carry our culture with them, sometimes literally as with the Vo...

  One of my favourite parts of working in a research group is the opportunity to bring together a diverse set of students. Such a group has ...

This week, our summer undergraduate researcher, Simon Friesen, takes a step back from pondering the dusty skies of Mars to consider the Musi...

Click Here to view an animated version of the figure above! This week, undergrad Noah Stanton takes on a burning question in compara...

This week Ariella reflects on her time spent with the lab over the summer as a TEPS fellow. Above, she is pictured at the Lassonde Underg...

This week, PVL Undergraduate Researcher Ariella Sapers reflects on a significant anniversary for space exploration: the 50th anniversary ...

Spring is in the air. Aside from cherry blossoms, new leaves on the trees and rising temperatures (perhaps in some places, but apparently...

Romina is one of three undergraduates working in the lab this summer. She, like Alex holds a Lassonde Undergraduate Research Award (LURA)...

In his inaugural post, PVL Summer Undergraduate Michael Tabascio takes a look at a most unusual crater that appears in popular culture, o...

A number of members of PVL just completed a trip to Vancouver, British Columbia to attend the annual TEPS Summer Skills Series, organized...

The second in our two-part series on Curiosity's 2000th Sol on Mars. In this article Brittney takes a look at the public reaction to ...

In the post below, Alex reflects on a frustrating problem in the lab. In many ways, our failures can be even more valuable than our succ...

This week, undergraduate space engineering student Alexandre Séguin reflects on what he might tell a high school student looking to matc...

  This week Alex gives an update on some of her work with Giang investigating small-scale topography of the Northern Polar Cap of Mars. A...

This week, PVL undergraduate Brittney Cooper reflects on the hectic schedule of students, especially those who participate in re...

This week Alex Séguin, one of our undergraduate research assistants, recounts his experiences at the Lassonde Undergraduate Research Fair...

Alexandra Innanen is an Undergraduate Researcher working at PVL for the summer. Along with MSc Giang Nguyen, they've been scouring ...

This week, Keagan Lee, an Undergraduate Research Assistant working at PVL for the summer reports on some independent reading he has bee...