Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region
Tags: physical sciences, permafrost, climate change, paleoenvironment, peatlands, pesticides
| Principal Investigator: | Vardy, Sheila (2) |
| Licence Number: | 12113 |
| Organization: | Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo |
| Licensed Year(s): |
1993
1992
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| Issued: | Jan 01, 1992 |
| Project Team: | Dr. Barry Warner; Dr. Dennis Gregor; Chris Spencer; Bob Ingleton |
Objective(s): To establish trends of peatland development in the region in relation to climate change for comparison with the paleoenvironmental record from lake sediments; to investigate the influence of permafrost on peatland processes; to investigate the Canadian North with respect to the feasibility of using peat as a temporal record of pesticide residues; to investigate methods utilized in temperate peat studies and the applicability of these methods in northern Canada.
Project Description: 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.
