Principal Investigator:Thienpont, Joshua Licensed Year(s):
2023
Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5573.
To understand how landscape changes caused by climate warming are impacting aquatic ecosystems, particularly lakes and streams. These disturbances focus primarily on permafrost thaw, in the form of thaw slumps and landslides. The understanding derived will allow better understanding of how water quality and aquatic ha...
Principal Investigator:Korosi, Jennifer B Licensed Year(s):
2019
Summary:
The objectives of this research is to:
1) determine if thaw slumping results in the loss of a large-bodied zooplankton species (Daphnia) from lakes; and
2) measure polychlorinated biphenyl concentrations in lake sediments near the Distant Early Warning Line site in Tuktoyaktuk, to assess whether legacy contamination is still evident.
The research team will be collecting sediment cores from ...