Principal Investigator:Kou-Giesbrecht, Sian Licensed Year(s):
2024
Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5951.
The overarching objective of this research is to understand the extent to which nutrients will limit forest growth and terrestrial carbon sequestration in Canadian boreal forests and to improve how this is represented in climate change models. These climate change models can then be used to understand the impacts of ...
Principal Investigator:Grogan, Paul Licensed Year(s):
2024
2023202220212019 Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5982.
The objectives of this research project are: 1) To determine the biogeochemical and ecological significance of the discovery that mesic tundra plant growth can be co-limited by nitrogen and phosphorus. 2) To predict the likely impacts of climate change as well as declining caribou and other mammalian herbivory, on tu...
Principal Investigator:Cassar, Nicolas Licensed Year(s):
2022
Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5273.
This project will collect lichen, bryophyte (moss, liverwort and hornwort) and soil samples from Dundas Peninsula and north Banks Island while traveling on the French ecotourism ship Le Commandant Charcot during a cruise through the Northwest Passage from Iceland to Alaska. The project will be carried out opportunisti...
Principal Investigator:Pastor, Ada Licensed Year(s):
2021
Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5034.
The main aim of Nitrofresh is to assess the nitrogen (N) sources for streams and the linkages between terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems across different regions with continuous permafrost in High Arctic. In particular, the research team have three objectives: 1) to quantify and characterize N pools along the ripar...
Principal Investigator:Koster, Kajar Licensed Year(s):
2018
2015 Summary:
The aim of this project is to study the short term and long term effects of different fire intensities on the decomposition of soil organic matter (SOM) in northern boreal forests under changing fire regimes.
The objectives are to: 1) explore the short and long term effects of forest fires with different intensity on above- and belowground biomasses; 2) explore changes in albedo, snow depths an...
Principal Investigator:Grogan, Paul Licensed Year(s):20182017201620152014
2013
20122011201020092008 Summary:
The goal of this research over the next five years is to substantially advance the understanding of how Canadian arctic tundra ecosystems function, and therefore how they are likely to be affected by perturbations such as climate change, resource development and extraction, and atmospheric pollution. Specifically, the research team will focus on the impacts on vegetation due to warmer summer tempe...
Principal Investigator:Coxson, Darwyn S Licensed Year(s):
2008
2007 Summary:
The objective of this research is to study how northern soils in close proximity (geospatially linked soils) cycle nitrogen and carbon and produce greenhouse gases. Describing these links will allow forecasting on how the soils respond to climate change.
Three transects with 31 sampling locations will be set up. At each location a Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) probe and thermocouple will be i...
Principal Investigator:Bliss, Lawrence Licensed Year(s):
1994
Summary:
We seek to better understand how ecosystems develop in the high arctic following retreat of ice caps. This includes studies of soil development and the influence that rocks play in this as well as studying the development of block crusts of organisms that form on the soil surface. We will also try to understand the role these crusts play in fixing nitrogen and influencing the development of flower...
Principal Investigator:Graham, Mark S Licensed Year(s):
1992
Summary:
The researcher and his team will use several species of planktonic and benthic invertebrates from Lancaster Sound region to evaluate the metabolic cost of making a living in the Arctic. Oxygen consumption techniques will be used as a metabolic indicy. Trophic status of specimens will be evaluated later by stable isotope analysis....
Principal Investigator:Cummins, W. Raymond Licensed Year(s):
1991
19901989 Summary:
The Researcher and team will continue to collect information about repiration rates and growth rates in Arctic plants. They will confirm that Arctic plants have low rates of nitrate reductase activity and will determine if relationships exist between rates of respiration, photosynthesis and nitrogen reduction in these plants....