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2 record(s) found in the location "Gwich'in Settlement Area" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Climate Change and Postglacial Paleoenvironmental History of Peatlands in the Mackenzie Delta Area and Anthropogenic Contaminant Residues in Active Peat Bogs in the Yukon and Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Vardy, Sheila
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992
Summary: This research is part of a Canadian-Russian collaborative, interdisciplinary project aimed at the history of treeline fluctuations in circumboreal regions. We will also investigate the feasibility of using peat as a temporal record of pesticide residues. It will also investigate methods utilized in temperate peat studies and the applicability of these methods in northern Canada....


Peat Plateau Collapse and Climate Change
Principal Investigator: Wein, Ross
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The research will examine permafrost-containing peat plateaus that have burned during severe fires to determine the features of subsidence (decrease) and the rate of subsidence....


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