Long-awaited research lab opens in Churchill to study oil spills and more

No one wants to see an oil spill in the Canadian Arctic. But Feiyue Wang is ready to start a few in the name of science.An environmental geochemist at the University of Manitoba, Dr. Wang is co-leader of the Churchill Marine Observatory, a newly opened facility on the province’s remote north coast that is tailor-made for studies of sea ice and the region’s unique Arctic ecosystem – and that includes oil spills.