Regions: Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut
Tags: contaminants, water chemistry, snow accumulation, snow water equivalence, spring melt, organic contaminants
| Principal Investigator: | Semkin, Raymond (1) |
| Licence Number: | 12670 |
| Organization: | Environment Canada |
| Licensed Year(s): |
1994
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| Issued: | Jan 01, 1994 |
| Project Team: | B. Strachan, M. Fox, M. Hanna, R. Neureuther, M. Mawhinney, S. Kinney, P. Amarualik, M. Alaee, R. Rowsell, D. Jeffries |
Objective(s): To operate an experimental basin in the high Arctic for the purpose of determining a detailed hydrologic and contaminant budget; to measure within the basin the flux of organic contaminants and specificions during the winter accumulation and snow melt seasons; to investigate and quantify the key biotic and abiotic processes controling contaminant fate and dynamics in Arctic freshwater systems; and to develop and calibrate contaminant transport models on a basin scale.
Project Description: Amituk Lake and the east coast of Cornwallis Island is a research site for documenting the occurence and movement of organic and inorganic contminants from winter snowpack into a freshwater lake. Numerous tests for snowpack water content and chemistry are carried out before snowmelt begins. Chemical and flow measurements are also taken at 6 streams and the lake outlet.
