Principal Investigator:Chetelat, John Licensed Year(s):
2024
2023 Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5894.
The main objective of this project is to measure mercury in dragonfly larvae from a variety of aquatic ecosystems in the Yellowknife area. This information will be collected as part of a Canada-wide project to evaluate geographic and temporal patterns of mercury bioaccumulation.
The first priority will be to inve...
Principal Investigator:Chetelat, John Licensed Year(s):
2016
Summary:
The research team will use natural environmental archives (lake sediment and peat cores) to characterize the forest fire history in the study region and test the relationship between fire events and metal accumulation over recent centuries. Study sites will be selected along a gradient of recent forest fire activity with some study sites located in areas of the latest burns (2014-15) to examine th...