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Régions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Gwich'in Settlement Area

étiquettes: environmental monitoring

Objectif(s): To co-create and implement a coherent, integrated Arctic observing system.

Description du projet: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5714. The primary objective of Arctic PASSION is to co-create and implement a coherent, integrated Arctic observing system. The Western Arctic Research Centre will manage one of 10 sites located across the circumpolar Arctic. Each site will measure the same parameters at the same frequency using the same methodology. This data will be made publicly available to all user groups via the Aurora Research Institute website. In Fall 2023, a micrometeorological tower will be installed at a peatland site off of the Dempster Highway (near the Inuvik Airport). The micrometeorological tower will be co-located with a long term ground temperature monitoring site managed by the Western Arctic Research Centre and Carleton University. The following parameters will be measured: relative humidity, temperature, net radiation, soil moisture (at 30cm), ground temperature (down to 20m), and pressure. All of the data will be made publicly available via the Aurora Research Institute website. Mentioned above, the raw data will be made publicly available via the Aurora Research Institute website. After the first year of data collection, the Aurora Research Institute will plan a workshop for community members and local government, co-management, Indigenous, and private organizations. The workshop will be used to discuss what data is being collected, how it can be used, and what has been measured/observed before. This will include a discussion of how the measurements at the Inuvik site compare to other sites across the circumpolar Arctic. The fieldwork for this study will be conducted from: September 20 - December 31, 2023