Polar Continental Shelf Program: Funded projects
The following listings are organized alphabetically by primary investigator last name and by province and territory.
*Projects with field site locations in multiple territories and/or provinces are listed under each applicable region and marked with an asterisk.
Note: Project information may be subject to change. Contact the PCSP for more information:
Telephone: 613-998-8145
Email: PCSP_Resolute-PPCP_Resolute.RNCan@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca
PCSP-supported projects in 2020
British Columbia
Primary Investigator | Institution | Project Title | Study Location(s) |
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Bill Arnott | University of Ottawa | Sedimentology – Western Canada | Cariboo Mountains Park, British Columbia |
Manitoba
Primary Investigator | Institution | Project Title | Study Location(s) |
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Nicholas Lunn | Environment and Climate Change Canada | The ecology, population, dynamics, and status of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in relation to environmental change | Lee Lake, Marsh Lake and Gilliam, Manitoba |
Matt Webb | Parks Canada | Sustaining hydroecological monitoring to assess state of the park in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba | Multiple locations in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba |
New Brunswick
Primary Investigator | Institution | Project Title | Study Location(s) |
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Carl De Ladurantaye | Department of National Defense | Howitzer field trials | CFB Gagetown, New Brunswick |
Northwest Territories
Primary Investigator | Institution | Project Title | Study Location(s) |
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Colleen Arnison | Parks Canada | Assessment of Dolly Varden stocks in Ivvavik National Park | Inuvik and Various Locations in Ivvavik National Park, Northwest Territories |
Édouard Bélanger | Gwich'in Renewable Resources Board | Divii (Dall's sheep) research project | Inuvik, Northwest Territories |
Scott Cairns | Northwest Territories Geological Survey | Core rescue from Preeble Island East Arm | Nonacho Lake, Northwest Territories |
Scott Cairns | Northwest Territories Geological Survey | Lake sediment survey | Yellowknife, Mohawk Lake Esker, Northwest Territories |
Erika Hille | Aurora College | Beaufort Sea coastal restoration project – using indigenous plant species to stabilize coastline affected by permafrost thaw slumping | Tuktoyaktuk, Tuktoyaktuk Island, Peninsula Point, Kugmallit Bay and Crumbling Point, Northwest Territories |
Erika Hille | Aurora College | The geochemical responses of Arctic freshwater systems to regional variability in permafrost thaw | Inuvik and Kugmallit Bay, Northwest Territories |
Steven Kokelj | Northwest Territories Geological Survey | Integrated methods to monitor and map permafrost geohazards, northwestern Northwest Territories | Inuvik, Northwest Territories |
Bernadette Knox | Northwest Territories Geological Survey | Thermotectonic and metallogenic study of the Point Lake greenstone belt and "arrowhead outlier" | Various locations, Northwest Territories |
Philippe Normandeau | Northwest Territories Geological Survey | Surficial geology, glacial history and bedrock investigation in the Dessert Lake Drumlin Field, Northwest Territories. | Dessert Lake Drumlin Field, Northwest Territories |
Edith Martel | Northwest Territories Geological Survey | Tectonostratigraphy of the Nonacho Group basin and nature of basement rocks of the Rae Craton, Northwest Territories. | MacInnis Lake, Nonacho Lake, Talston Lake and Thekulthili Lake, Northwest Territories |
Jiri Raska | Natural Resources Canada | Inuvik Satellite Station Facility | Inuvik, Northwest Territories |
Nunavut
Primary Investigator | Institution | Project Title | Study Location(s) |
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Carson Banister | National Research Council | National Research Council Project – Cambridge Bay | Cambridge Bay, Nunavut |
James Haggart | Natural Resources Canada | GEM2 Baffin Bay project community engagement | Pond Inlet, Nunavut |
Joshua King | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Development of a new Canadian Arctic Archipelago sea ice product from ICESat-2 (Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2) | Eureka, Nunavut |
Ontario
Primary Investigator | Institution | Project Title | Study Location(s) |
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International Boundary Commission (IBC) | Natural Resources Canada | Monument Maintenance | Brockville, Ontario* |
Cindy S. Kliaman | Natural Resources Canada | Fieldwork on Wikwemikong Unceded Reserve, Manitoulin Island | Wikwemikong, Onario |
Quebec
Primary Investigator | Institution | Project Title | Study Location(s) |
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Virginie Galindo | University of Quebec at Rimouski (UQAR) | Coastal oceanography – James Bay | James Bay, Quebec |
International Boundary Commission (IBC) | Natural Resources Canada | Monument maintenance | Lac Megantic, Ville de Saint-Georges and Halls Stream, Quebec* |
Christine Rivard | Natural Resources Canada | Béancour geothermal tests | Béancour, Quebec |
Steve Thibeault | Natural Resources Canada | Forestry research – Laurentides Forestry Centre | Quebec, Quebec |
Yukon
Primary Investigator | Institution | Project Title | Study Location(s) |
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Bruce Bennett | Government of Yukon | Impacts of climate change on Beringian species at risk | Carmacks, Yukon |
Ian McDonald | Parks Canada | Hydrological and ecological research in Vuntut National Park, Yukon | Old Crow Flats, Yukon |
PCSP-supported projects in 2019
Alberta
Primary Investigator | Institution | Project Title | Study Location(s) |
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Roland Hall | University of Waterloo | Paleolimnological studies to distinguish the roles of river regulation and climate change on persistent low water levels in the Peace-Athabasca Delta | Fort Chipewyan, Alberta |
Brent Wolfe | Wilfrid Laurier University | A foundation for aquatic ecosystem monitoring of lakes in the Peace-Athabasca Delta | Fort Chipewyan, Alberta |
British Columbia
Primary Investigator | Institution | Project Title | Study Location(s) |
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Dan Shugar | University of Calgary | Prospecting for a buried paleo-channel, Tweedsmuir Glacier, northern British Columbia | Tweedsmuir Glacier, British Columbia |
Manitoba
Primary Investigator | Institution | Project Title | Study Location(s) |
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Andrew Derocher | University of Alberta | On ice ecology of polar bears in Hudson Bay | Churchill, Manitoba |
Melissa Gibbons | Parks Canada | Sustaining hydroecological monitoring to assess state of the park in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba - 2019 | Wapusk National Park, Manitoba |
Erica Nol | Trent University | Tracking post-breeding dispersal in migratory shorebirds | Wapusk National Park, Manitoba |
James Roth | University of Manitoba | Terrestrial food web interactions at the Arctic's edge | Locations in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba |
Northwest Territories
Primary Investigator | Institution | Project Title | Study Location(s) |
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Pascal Audet | University of Ottawa | Banks Island Seismic Network (BISN): Seismic hazard and natural resource potential across Banks Island, NWT, and surrounding southwestern Canadian Arctic | Ulukhaktok (Victoria Island) and Inuvik, Northwest Territories |
Jennifer Baltzer | Wilfrid Laurier University | Assessing terrain sensitivity to permafrost thaw and fire to understand and predict boreal caribou habitat and forage quality in the Sahtú | Norman Wells, Northwest Territories |
Édouard Bélanger | Gwich'in Renewable Resources Board | Dall's Sheep Research Project | Richardson Mountains, Northwest Territories |
Aaron Berg | University of Guelph | Changes to arctic precipitation interception due to land cover changes | Trail Valley Creek, Northwest Territories |
David Burgess | Natural Resources Canada | Glacier mass balance - Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut & Northwest Territories | Melville Ice Cap (Melville Island), Northwest Territories* |
Christopher Burn | Carleton University | Permafrost and climate change, western Arctic Canada | Garry Island and Illisarvik, Northwest Territories |
Hayleigh Conway | Parks Canada | Investigation into the extent of slumping and its impact on landscape morphology within the Thomsen River Watershed in Aulavik National Park (N.W.T.). | Aulavik National Park (Banks Island), Northwest Territories |
Scott Dallimore | Natural Resources Canada | Beaufort Sea coastal permafrost and geohazard studies | Inuvik, Northwest Territories |
Rich DeVall | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Annual maintenance of Environment and Climate Change Canada's automatic weather station array - Arctic Archipelago | Mould Bay (Prince Patrick Island) and Cape Providence (Melville Island), Northwest Territories* |
Michelle DeWolfe | Mount Royal University | Detailed study of the rhyolite dome and surrounding volcanic rocks at Sunset Lake, Slave craton, Northwest Territories | Sunset Lake, Northwest Territories |
Mark Ednie | Natural Resources Canada | State and evolution of Canada's glaciers – mass balance Northern Cordillera, Northwest Territories | Bologna Glacier, Northwest Territories |
Michael English | Wilfrid Laurier University | Subarctic metals mobility study | Various locations north of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories |
Kathryn Fiess | Northwest Territories Geological Survey | Shale basin evolution in the Northwest Territories mainland | Norman Wells, Imperial River, Mountain River, Gayna Gorge, Carcajou River South and Powell Creek, Northwest Territories |
Duane Froese | University of Alberta | Early opening of the Mackenzie valley and the setting of prominent thaw slumps | Keele River, Redstone River, Carcajou Canyon and Dry Falls, Northwest Territories |
Colin Gallagher | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Population assessment of Dolly Varden 2019 | Big Fish River, Northwest Territories* |
Kirsty Gurney | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Understanding changes in aquatic ecosystem health and water quality in the Fort Good Hope – Ramparts area | Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories |
Erika Hille | Aurora College | Beaufort Sea Coastal Restoration program - Using Indigenous plant species to mitigate the impacts of permafrost thaw slumping | Water Lake, Peninsula Point, Crumbling Point, Tuktoyaktuk Island and Kugmallit Bay, Northwest Territories |
Erika Hille | Aurora College | Investigating the factors driving the water quality of streams in the Beaufort Delta region | Midway Lake, Northwest Territories |
Erika Hille | Aurora College | The impacts of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on the aquatic health of tundra upland lakes | Noell Lake, Northwest Territories |
Kimberly Howland | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Evaluating the cumulative impacts of climate change and other stressors on the Great Bear Lake ecosystem | Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories |
Bernadette Knox | Northwest Territories Geological Survey | Targeted bedrock mapping of Archean volcanic belts and surrounding Archean basement complexes | Newbigging Lake, Desteffany Lake and Point Lake, Northwest Territories |
Steven Kokelj | Northwest Territories Geological Survey | Integrated methods to monitor permafrost geohazards, northwestern NWT | Inuvik, Northwest Territories |
Jennifer Korosi | York University | Long-term lake ecosystem change in the western Canadian Arctic | Inuvik, Northwest Territories |
Trevor Lantz | University of Victoria | Vegetation change in the western Arctic | Locations near Anderson River, Outer Delta, Jimmy Lake, Husky Lakes and Sandy Hills, Northwest Territories* |
Lisa Loseto | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Beluga telemetry and habitat research in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region | Shingle Point, East Whitefish and Hendrickson Island, Northwest Territories |
Lisa Loseto | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Movement of coastal fishes in the Ulukhaktok region 2019 | Ulukhaktok (Victoria Island), Northwest Territories |
Marianne Marcoux | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Aerial survey of the Beaufort Sea beluga population | Inuvik, Northwest Territories* |
Philip Marsh | Wilfrid Laurier University | Hydrology and climate of the western Canadian Arctic | Trail Valley Creek, Northwest Territories |
Edith Martel | Northwest Territories Geological Survey | Tectonostratigraphy of the Nonacho Group basin and nature of basement rocks of the Rae Craton, Northwest Territories. | Gray Lake, Tent Lake, Nonacho Lake, MacInnis Lake and Salked Lake, Northwest Territories |
Neil Mochnacz | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Defining the biothermal envelope of Dolly Varden in the Canadian Western Arctic to inform conservation planning. | Fish Creek (Rat River watershed), Northwest Territories |
Andrea Niemi | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Vulnerabilities of Arctic Cod early life stages to changing oceanographic conditions in Arctic coastal embayments | Franklin Bay, Northwest Territories |
Ashley Piskor | Parks Canada | Collecting digital imagery of significant cultural sites in Aulavik National Park | Aulavik National Park (Banks Island), Northwest Territories |
Trevor Porter | University of Toronto | 2,000 years of tree-rings and climate change in the Mackenzie Delta region | Inuvik, Northwest Territories |
Eric Reed | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Integrating fixed-wing and helicopter surveys to improve detection and species identification of breeding scoters | Lynx Lake, Northwest Territories |
Eric Reed | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Western Arctic snow goose management and habitat assessment | Sik Sik Lake and Banks Harbour (Banks Island), and Inuvik, Northwest Territories |
Sharon Smith | Natural Resources Canada | Changing permafrost conditions in the Mackenzie Valley | Inuvik, Normal Wells and Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories |
Suzanne Tank | University of Alberta | Land-water linkages and the fate of terrestrial carbon in aquatic ecosystems of the western Canadian Arctic | Inuvik and Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories |
David Tavares | Parks Canada | Assessment of Dolly Varden stocks in Ivvavik National Park 2019 | Inuvik, Northwest Territories* |
Joost van der Sanden | Natural Resources Canada | Radar remote sensing for ice cover mapping | Inuvik, Northwest Territories |
Dustin Whalen | Natural Resources Canada | Understanding the acceleration of climate driven coastal change in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region | Inuvik, Paulatuk, and Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories* |
Stephen Wolfe | Natural Resources Canada | Abrupt change within the discontinuous permafrost zone | Yellowknife, Northwest Territories |
Nunavut
Primary Investigator | Institution | Project Title | Study Location(s) |
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Ray Alisauskas | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Karrak Lake assessment of continental efforts at population reduction of light geese | Perry River and Karrak Lake, Nunavut |
Dermot Antoniades | Université Laval | Environmental change in aquatic ecosystems of northern Ellesmere Island | Stuckberry Valley and Lake Hazen, Quttinirpaaq National Park (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut |
Dominique Berteaux | Université du Québec à Rimouski | Ecology of arctic and red fox on Bylot Island | Bylot Island, Nunavut |
Joël Bêty | Université du Québec à Rimouski | Ecology of migratory birds in the Canadian Arctic | Bylot Island, Nunavut |
Maya Bhatia | University of Alberta | Impacts of melting tidewater glaciers on marine biogeochemical cycles | Sverdrup Glacier and TrueLove lowlands (Devon Island), and Grise Fiord (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut |
Jules Blais | University of Ottawa | Paleolimnological investigations of human and wildlife impacts on Arctic freshwater ecosystems | Cape Garry, Hazard Inlet and Whaler Point (Somerset Island), Bird Pond (Prince Leopold Island), and Fellfoot Point and Cape Vera (Devon Island), Nunavut |
Martin Bouchard | Transport Canada | National Areal Surveillance Program - NASP | Resolute Bay, Nunavut |
Stéphanie Breton/Eric McDonald | Natural Resources Canada | Power and energy system for underwater acoustic arrays at Gascoyne Inlet | Gascoyne Inlet (Devon Island), Nunavut |
Michael Brohart | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Instrument calibration at Eureka weather station as part of the Canadian Brewer Spectrophotometer Network operation | Eureka (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut |
Laura Brown | University of Toronto Mississauga | Lake ice in the Canadian High Arctic | Resolute (Cornwallis Island) and Polar Bear Pass (Bathurst Island), Nunavut |
David Burgess | Natural Resources Canada | Glacier mass balance-Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut & Northwest Territories |
Agassiz Ice Cap and Grise Fiord (Ellesmere Island), Devon Ice Cap (Devon Island), Meighen Ice Cap (Meighen Island), Nunavut* |
Hsin Chiang | McGill University | A new window on the universe: radio astronomy from northern Canada | Expedition Fiord (Axel Heiberg Island), Nunavut |
Alison Criscitiello | University of Alberta | Airborne gravity survey over Devon Ice Cap | Grise Fiord (Ellesmere Island) and Resolute (Cornwallis Island), Nunavut |
Alexander Culley | Université Laval | Viral ecology of the high Canadian Arctic in water, ice and aerosols | Expedition Fiord (Axel Heiberg Island), Resolute (Cornwallis Island), Ward Hunt Island and Thores Lake (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut |
Rich DeVall | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Annual maintenance of Environment and Climate Change Canada's automatic weather station array - Arctic Archipelago | Isachsen (Ellef Ringnes Island), Rea Point (Melville Island), Stefansson Island, Fort Ross (Somerset Island), Gateshead Island, Cape Liverpool (Bylot Island), Svarteveg (Axel Heiberg Island) and Grise Fiord (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut* |
Florent Domine | Université Laval | Climate change in the High-Arctic: impact on wildlife and permafrost carbon stocks | Bylot Island, Nunavut |
Florent Domine | Université Laval | Physical properties of seasonal and perennial snow cover in the high Arctic | Resolute (Cornwallis Island) and Ward Hunt Island, Nunavut |
Kyle Elliott | McGill University | Year-round movement in two ice-associated seabirds at Coats Island: links to population parameters | Coats Island, Nunavut |
Brent Else | University of Calgary | A weather station network near Cambridge Bay to support safe travel and fundamental boundary layer meteorology research | Cambridge Bay and 30-Mile River (Victoria Island), Qikirtaarjuk Island, and Melbourne Island, Nunavut |
Carey Elverum | Parks Canada | Sirmilik National Park Operations 2019 | Locations in Sirmilik National Park (Baffin Island and Bylot Island), Nunavut |
Dominique Fauteux | Canadian Museum of Nature | Population dynamics and trophic interactions of Arctic rodents | Cambridge Bay (Victoria Island), Nunavut* |
Daniel Fortier | Université de Montréal | Disturbance and transformation of permafrost Arctic geosystems | Bylot Island, Nunavut |
Daniel Fortier | Université de Montréal | GEO-NEIGE: Geomorphology of northern Ellesmere Island in the global environment | Ward Hunt Island, Nunavut |
Marlene Francis | Natural Resources Canada | Fuel drum removal and disposal- Pond Inlet & Bylot Island, Nunavut | Pond Inlet (Baffin Island), Nunavut |
Pierre Francus | Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique | Annually laminated sediments (varves) of the Canadian High Arctic | Strathcona Lake (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut |
Max Friesen | University of Toronto | Inuinnait Heritage: A Collaborative Approach to Archaeological Research in the Canadian Arctic | Bathurst Inlet and Kent Peninsula, Nunavut |
Gilles Gauthier | Université Laval | Biology of bird and small tundra mammal populations: Demographics, trophic interactions and climate change | Bylot Island, Nunavut |
Grant Gilchrist | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Population studies of eider ducks breeding at East Bay Island and thick-billed murres breeding at Coats Island, Nunavut | East Bay Island (Southampton Island) and Coats Island, Nunavut |
Grant Gilchrist | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Population surveys of endangered ivory gulls on Ellesmere and Devon Islands | Grise Fiord (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut |
Catherine Girard | Université Laval | Aerosol virome of Resolute Bay: dispersal of microbial populations in a warming Arctic | Resolute (Cornwallis Island), Nunavut |
Marie-Andrée Giroux | Université de Moncton | Connections between the Arctic and distant ecosystems through animal migrations: consequences on trophic interactions in the Arctic | Cambridge Bay (Victoria Island) and Igloolik Island, Nunavut |
Etienne Godin | University of Western Ontario | Periglacial geomorphology and ground ice investigation in the Haughton impact structure area, Devon Island, Nunavut | Haughton River Valley (Devon Island), Nunavut |
John Gosse | Dalhousie University | PoLAR-FIT Project 2019: Pliocene paleoclimate, paleontology, and paleoecology, Ellesmere Island: Core archive and proteomics | Grist Fiord, Vendom Fiord, Strathcona Fiord and Fyles Leaf Bed (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut |
Les Harris | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Fishery independent sampling of Cambridge Bay Arctic char with emphasis on the Lauchlan River stock: Year 2 of 5 | Byron Bay (Victoria Island), Nunavut |
Greg Henry | University of British Columbia | Tundra ecosystem responses to 30 years of observed and experimental climate change | Alexandra Fiord, Princess Marie Bay and Sverdrup Pass (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut |
Kimberly Howland | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Development of tools and capacity for community-based monitoring of biodiversity shifts and early detection of aquatic invasive species (AIS) in the Canadian Arctic | Ragged Island, Nunavut |
Alessandro Ielpi | Laurentian University | Fury and Hecla geoscience project, Melville Peninsula 2019 | Melville Peninsula and Igloolik (Igloolik Island), Nunavut |
Emily Jenkins | University of Saskatchewan | Assessing risks of food and vector borne diseases in wildlife in the Canadian Arctic | Karrak Lake and Perry River, Nunavut |
Deborah Johnson | Hamlet of Arctic Bay | Repeater towers | Locations adjacent to Admiralty Inlet (Baffin Island), Nunavut |
Martin Kegel | Natural Resources Canada | Joint Arctic experiment 2019 | Resolute (Cornwallis Island), Nunavut |
Christophe Kinnard | Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières | Spatial heterogeneity of soil-snow-plant interactions in the high Arctic ecosystem | Bylot Island, Nunavut |
Denis Lacelle | University of Ottawa | Holocene ice wedge activity in the Eureka Sound region, high Arctic Canada. | Eureka (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut |
Jean-François Lamarre | Polar Knowledge Canada | Migratory and breeding ecology of birds facing global environmental change | Anderson bay and Icebreaker Channel, Nunavut |
Mark Lamothe | Natural Resources Canada | Eureka geomagnetic electronic replacement | Eureka (Ellesmere Island) and Resolute (Cornwallis Island), Nunavut |
Scott Lamoureux | Queen's University | Impacts of climate and permafrost change on High Arctic water and land systems | Cape Bounty (Melville Island) and Resolute (Cornwallis Island), Nunavut |
Isabelle Laurion | Institut national de la recherche scientifique | Effect of climate on Arctic lakes: seasonality, biogeochemical functioning and greenhouse gas emissions | Qarlikturvik Valley, Sirmilik National Park (Bylot Island), Nunavut |
Jim Leafloor | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Baffin Island goose banding | Nikko Island (Baffin Island), Nunavut |
Jim Leafloor | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Southampton Island goose banding | Coral Harbor (Southampton Island), Nunavut |
Jim Leafloor | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Survival in Arctic geese (Perry River, Queen Maud Gulf Bird Sanctuary) | Perry River, Nunavut |
Lorraine Lebeau | Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office | Fury and Hecla geoscience project | Gifford River, Jungerson River and Ivisarak Lake (Baffin Island), Nunavut |
Nicolas Lecomte | Université de Moncton | Arctic IMPACTS: Tracking impacts of ecosystem changes in the Arctic | Bylot Island, Igloolik Island and Eureka (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut |
Josée Lefebvre | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Population dynamics of Greater Snow Geese in relation to habitat | Bylot Island, Nunavut |
Igor Lehnherr | University of Toronto | Out of the freezer and into the fire: Climate-warming driven contaminant mobilization from glaciers to downstream freshwater ecosystems | Lake Hazen (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut |
Esther Lévesque | Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières | Plant community dynamics in a changing environment: permafrost-vegetation interactions in polar deserts. | Ward Hunt Island, Nunavut |
Tracey Loewen | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Restoration of anadromous Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) and Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malma malma) near Kugluktuk, NU | Kugluktuk, Nunavut |
Oliver Love | University of Windsor | Stress-mediated mechanisms linking individual state, climate variability and population health in Arctic-breeding birds | East Bay Island (Southampton Island), Nunavut |
Mark Mallory | Acadia University | Contaminants in seabirds at Prince Leopold Island | Prince Leopold Island, Nunavut |
Mark Mallory | Acadia University | Seabird census and paleo history at Cape Vera, NU | Cape Vera (Devon Island), Nunavut |
Mark Mallory | Acadia University | Tracking Arctic terns in the high Arctic | Tern Island, Nunavut |
Conor Mallory | Government of Nunavut | Wolf predation and Peary caribou population composition on the Bathurst Island Complex | Various locations on Bathurst Island, Nunavut |
Marianne Marcoux | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Aerial survey of the Beaufort Sea beluga population | Resolute (Cornwallis Island), Nunavut* |
Marianne Marcoux | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Narwhal passive ecosystem monitoring in Tremblay Sound | Tremblay Sound (Baffin Island), Nunavut |
Zoya Martin | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Mixed-stock fisheries analysis near Pond Inlet, Nunavut. | Pond Inlet (Baffin Island), Nunavut |
Donald McLennan | Polar Knowledge Canada | Canadian High Arctic Research Station environmental research area |
Cambridge Bay (Victoria Island), Nunavut |
Christine Michel | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Multidisciplinary Arctic Program (MAP) - Last Ice | Alert (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut |
Gifford Miller | University of Colorado Boulder | Disappearing Ice | Serpens Ice Cap and Africa Lake (Baffin Island), Nunavut |
Gifford Miller | University of Colorado Boulder | Predicting Arctic change through ecosystem molecular proxies (PACEMAP) |
Clyde River (Baffin Island), Nunavut |
Joseph Monteith | Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada | 2019 high Arctic and Qiktani water licence, land use, and lease inspections | Locations on Cornwallis Island, Devon Island, Ellef Ringnes Island, King Christian Island, Lougheed Island, Bathurst Island, Melville Island, Ellesmere Island, Somerset Island and Prince Leopold Island, Nunavut |
Brian Moorman | University of Calgary | Rapid landscape evolution at the permafrost-glacier interface | Bylot Island, Nunavut |
Douglas Morris | Lakehead University | Dynamics and habitat use by lemmings under climate change | Cambridge Bay (Victoria Island) and Walker Bay, Nunavut |
Derek Mueller | Carleton University | Milne Fiord ice-ocean interactions: Implications for the stability of ice shelves and glaciers in the Polar Regions | Purple Valley Strip and Milne Ice Shelf (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut |
Derek Muir | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Investigating potential effects of climate warming on trends of mercury and persistent organic pollutants in arctic aquatic and terrestrial environments | Resolute and Amiktuk Lake (Cornwallis Island), and Cape Bounty (Melville Island), Nunavut |
Susan Murch | University of British Columbia | ARCTIC Change - (Arctic Research and Conservation Trip Investigating Climate Change) | Resolute Bay (Cornwallis Island), Nunavut |
Mathew Nauyuq | Parks Canada | Aircraft support for Auyuittuq National Park operations and research | Penny Ice Cap and Pangnirtung (Baffin Island), Nunavut |
Erica Nol | Trent University | Effects of overabundant arctic geese on other tundra nesting birds | East Bay Mainland (Southampton Island), Nunavut |
Gordon Osinski | University of Western Ontario | A multidisciplinary study of glacial and periglacial processes on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut | Buchanan Lake (Axel Heiberg Island), Nunavut |
Karsten Piepjohn | Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources [Germany] | Fuel depot for CASE 22-Parry Islands | Resolute (Cornwallis Island), Nunavut |
Angela Piercey | Parks Canada | Quttinirpaaq National Park operating season 2019 | Locations in Quttinirpaaq National Park (Ellesmere Island and Ward Hunt Island), Nunavut |
Lisa Pirie-Dominix | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Nirjutiqavvik National Wildlife Area - North Water Research Station clean-up | Coburg Island, Nirjutiqavvik National Wildlife Area, Nunavut |
Wayne Pollard | McGill University | McGill Arctic Research Station (MARS) science program | Expedition Fiord (Axel Heiberg Island), Nunavut |
Wayne Pollard | McGill University | The vulnerability and resiliency of ice-rich permafrost in cold polar desert environments in response to changing climate | Eureka (Ellesmere Island) and Expedition Fiord (Axel Heiberg Island), Nunavut |
Wayne Pollard | McGill University | The vulnerability of high Arctic permafrost to climate change | Expedition Fiord (Axel Heiberg Island), Nunavut |
Michael Power | University of Waterloo | Functional, structural and biodiversity studies of Arctic freshwater watersheds: validating protocols for monitoring and cumulative impacts assessment | Cambridge Bay (Victoria Island), Nunavut |
Jennie Rausch | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Arctic shorebird monitoring program (Arctic PRISM) - Tier 1 surveys | Air Force Island, Prince Charles Island and Rasmussen Lowlands, Nunavut |
Jennie Rausch | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Population studies of shorebirds at Nanuit Itillinga Polar Bear Pass National Wildlife Area, Nunavut (Arctic PRISM Tier 2 Site) | Polar Bear Pass (Bathhurst Island), Nunavut |
Murray Richardson | Carleton University | Water, carbon and mercury cycling in Arctic terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems | Iqaluit, Nunavut |
Claudia Schröder-Adams | Carleton University | Understanding Cretaceous High Arctic paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic change | Locations on Axel Heiberg Island and Devon Island, Nunavut |
Christina Semeniuk | University of Windsor | Population plasticity in behavioural responses and their consequences to novel predator-prey interactions under changing biotic and abiotic stressors on Mitivik (East Bay) Island, Nunavut | East Bay Island (Southampton Island), Nunavut |
Martin Sharp | University of Alberta | Dynamics and change of Canadian Arctic ice caps | Sverdrup Glacier (Devon Island) and Lake Hazen (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut |
Jovan Simic | Parks Canada | Qausuittuq National Park operations 2019 | Locations in Qausuittuq National Park (Bathurst Island), Nunavut |
Paul Smith/Grant Gilchrist | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Inuit Field Training Program at East Bay mainland and Prince Charles Island, Nunavut |
East Bay Mainland (Southampton Island) and Prince Charles Island, Nunavut |
Paul Smith/Jennie Rausch | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Population studies of shorebirds at East Bay Mainland and Prince Charles Island, Nunavut | East Bay (Southampton Island) and Prince Charles Island, Nunavut |
Jennifer Spearman | Defence Research and Development Canada | Canadian Arctic Underwater Sentinel Experimentation (CAUSE) project | Gascoyne Inlet (Devon Island), Nunavut |
Vincent St. Louis | University of Alberta | The impacts of rapidly receding glaciers on downstream freshwater resources and ecological services | Lake Hazen, Quttinirpaaq National Park (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut |
Guillaume St-Onge | Université du Québec à Rimouski | High frequency dynamics of the high Arctic geomagnetic field during the Late Quaternary | Stuckberry Valley (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut |
Laura Thomson | Queen's University | Glacier dynamics and downstream impacts on Axel Heiberg Island, NU | Expedition Fiord (Axel Heiberg Island), Nunavut |
Tommy Tremblay | Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office | Northeastern Baffin Island and Ulinniq surficial geology projects | Pond Inlet and Clyde River (Baffin Island), Nunavut |
Warwick Vincent | Université Laval | Northern Ellesmere Island in the global environment – Sentinel North | Resolute (Cornwallis Island), Thores Lake (Ellesmere Island) and Ward Hunt Island, Nunavut |
Lyle Whyte | McGill University | Assessment of natural attenuation of an experimental oil spill on an Arctic beach | Resolute Bay (Cornwallis Island), Nunavut |
Lyle Whyte | McGill University | Microbial investigations of permafrost and cold saline springs in the high Arctic | Expedition Fiord (Axel Heiberg Island), Nunavut |
Monty Yank | Parks Canada | 2019 Ukkusiksalik National Park operations | Locations in Ukkusiksalik National Park, Nunavut |
Quebec
Primary Investigator | Institution | Project Title | Study Location(s) |
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Dominique Fauteux | Canadian Museum of Nature | Population dynamics and trophic interactions of Arctic rodents | Salluit, Quebec* |
Yukon
Primary Investigator | Institution | Project Title | Study Location(s) |
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Michel Baraer | École de technologie supérieure | Multi-scale assessment of environmental changes impact on glacierized watersheds hydrology of Yukon | Grizzly Creek, Kluane National Park and Reserve and Silver City, Yukon |
Bruce Bennett | Yukon Government | Inventory of species at risk and rare species in Daadzaii Van Territorial Park in northern Yukon | Summit Lake, Yukon |
Fabrice Calmels | Yukon College | Permafrost vulnerability in Old Crow Flats, Yukon | Eagle Plains, Yukon |
Luke Copland | University of Ottawa | Mass balance, dynamics and recent changes of glaciers in Kluane National Park, Yukon | Donjek Glacier, Kaskawulsh Glacier and St. Elias Icefield, Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon |
Christine Dow | University of Waterloo | A comprehensive analysis of surging glacier dynamics and controls in the Yukon Territory, Canada | Lowell Glacier, Yukon |
Darius Elias | Vuntut Gwitchin Government | Fishing branch river chum salmon instream incubation | Eagle Plains, Yukon |
Gwenn Flowers | Simon Fraser University | Observational constraints on glacier form and flow, southwest Yukon, Canada | Silver City, Kluane Lake, and locations in Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon |
Colin Gallagher | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Population assessment of Dolly Varden 2019 | Babbage River and Rat River, Yukon* |
Ty Heffner | Government of Yukon | Archaeological field research in Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Traditional Territory, Northern Yukon | Old Crow, Yukon |
Lisa Hodgetts | University of Western Ontario | Inuvialuit living history project: Imniarvik culture and heritage camp | Imniarvik, Ivvavik National Park, Yukon |
Trevor Lantz | University of Victoria | Vegetation change in the western Arctic | Locations near Coal Mine Lake, Blow River and Babbage River, Yukon* |
Ian McDonald | Parks Canada | Hydrological and ecological research in Vuntut National Park, Yukon | Old Crow, Yukon |
Bernhard Rabus | Simon Fraser University | Dual-band airborne radar remote sensing for monitoring Arctic climate change processes | Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon |
Valentina Radic | University of British Columbia | A field laboratory for energy and mass exchange at glacier surfaces | Kaskawulsh Glacier, Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon |
Christian Schoof | University of British Columbia | Subglacial hydraulics and glacier dynamics in the Donjek Ranges | Kaskawulsh Glacier and Donjek Glacier, Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon |
Shirleen Smtih | Vuntut Gwitchin Government | Van Tat Gwich'in Historic Lifeways Project 2019-20 | Upper Timber Creek and Ch'adaghoo Mountain, Yukon |
David Tavares | Parks Canada | Assessment of Dolly Varden stocks in Ivvavik National Park 2019 | Firth River, Fish Creek, Joe Creek and Sheep Creek, Yukon* |
Dustin Whalen | Natural Resources Canada | Understanding the acceleration of climate driven coastal change in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region | Komakuk, Yukon* |
Carmen Wong | Parks Canada | Why are kokanee salmon declining in Yukon? | Sockeye Lake, Yukon |
Grant Zazula | Government of Yukon | Pleistocene palaeontology of the Old Crow Basin, northern Yukon | Old Crow River, Yukon |
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