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Variations of Climate, Surface Energy Budget, and Minimum Snow/Ice Extent ove...
Remote sensing is used to derive the annual minimum snow and ice extent over the Canadian Arctic landmass from 2000-2016. -
Pathways for Ecological Change in Canadian High Arctic Wetlands Under Rapid T...
Paleoecological techniques are used to investigate how Canadian High Arctic wetlands responded to a mid-twentieth century increase in growing degree days. -
Summary of 2018 Mackenzie Delta Permafrost Field Campaign
This is a study monitoring permafrost thaw due to a warming climate, based around the Beaufort Delta region. -
Permafrost-related landforms and geotechnical data compilation, Yellowknife t...
This report presents results from the first regional-scale approach to map permafrost-related landforms in the Slave Geological Province. -
Massive Ice Control on Permafrost Coast Erosion and Sensitivity
A historical analysis of coastal erosion with the help of photo data. -
Pre-Industrial Fire Regimes of the Western Boreal Forest of Canada
This project developed a first approximation summary of the pre-industrial fire regime attributes of the western boreal forest of Canada using the best available knowledge. -
Inuit Observations on Climate Change - Final Report
This study seeks to understand the Traditional Knowledge (TK) of Inuit regarding climate change and to explore the contribution of TK to research on climate change in the Arctic. -
Climate Change Effect on Winter Temperature and Precipitation of Yellowknife,...
This study shows a correlation between global atmospheric teleconnections and winter temperature and precipitation from 1943 to 2011 in Yellowknife, NWT. -
Arctic warming drives striking twenty-first century ecosystem shifts in Great...
This study documents the rapid restructuring of algal community composition ca 2000 CE that is consistent with recent climate change impacts in the region. -
Thaw-driven mass wasting couples slopes with downstream systems, and effects ...
In this study we quantify thaw slump enlargement, investigate thermokarst impacts, and map the propagation of effects through hydrological networks draining permafrost terrain. -
Impacts of wildfires on tǫdzı (Boreal caribou)
Boreal caribou and vegetation monitoring in areas of recent wildfire burn, in addition to Indigenous Knowledge, were used to determine impacts of wildfire on boreal caribou. -
How slumps are impacting aquatic systems in the Gwich’in Settlement Area
We collected water and bug samples at 36 sites in the Stony Creek watershed in the Gwich’in Settlement Area to test if thaw slumps affect macroinvertebrates in streams. -
Ground temperatures and thermokarst in the North Slave Region
Ground temperatures were monitored to examine evidence of ground temperature warming and to assess the influence of various environmental factors on permafrost conditions. -
Changing hydrology in Baker Creek
Meteorological data used to determine trends and changes in autumn rainfall and winter air temperatures over a 37-year record, and streamflow was used to calculate the total... -
Warmer temperatures and changing snowpack structure: what this means for the ...
This research looked at how the yearly snowpack is changing, and how it may influence the well-being of the Bathurst caribou herd. -
Elders’ stories of Jean Marie River: Impacts of permafrost thaw and forest fi...
Due to concerns about permafrost thaw and forest fires, changes in caribou habitat in JMRFN traditional territory were documented using traditional knowledge and scientific... -
Arctic Salmon: Community monitoring initiatives find increasing salmon in the...
This study investigates salmon numbers in the Arctic through community-based monitoring. -
How do forest fires affect wetland water quality in Ts’ude Niline Tuyeta?
ECCC has been working with community members to study the water quality of important wetland ecosystems in the Ts’ude Niline Tuyeta protected area. -
Impacts of Fire on Woodland and Barren-ground Caribou Habitat
This study investigated how quickly vegetation regrew following the 2014 fire season to learn the impacts of extreme fires on caribou habitat. -
Impacts of peatland permafrost thaw on water
This project examined the effect of peatland permafrost thaw on water availability and quality in the Dehcho region.