Polar Continental Shelf Program: Supported projects

The following listings are organized alphabetically by primary investigator last name and by province and territory.

*Projects with field site locations in multiple territories and/or provinces are listed under each applicable region and marked with an asterisk.

Note: Project information may be subject to change. Contact the PCSP for more information:

Email: pcspottawa-ppcpottawa@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca

PCSP-supported projects in 2020

British Columbia

Primary Investigator	Institution	Project Title	Study Location(s)
Bill Arnott	University of Ottawa	Sedimentology – Western Canada	Cariboo Mountains Park, British Columbia

Manitoba

Primary Investigator	Institution	Project Title	Study Location(s)
Nicholas Lunn	Environment and Climate Change Canada	The ecology, population, dynamics, and status of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in relation to environmental change	Lee Lake, Marsh Lake and Gilliam, Manitoba
Matt Webb	Parks Canada	Sustaining hydroecological monitoring to assess state of the park in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba	Multiple locations in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba

New Brunswick

Primary Investigator	Institution	Project Title	Study Location(s)
Carl De Ladurantaye	Department of National Defense	Howitzer field trials	CFB Gagetown, New Brunswick

Northwest Territories

Primary Investigator	Institution	Project Title	Study Location(s)
Colleen Arnison	Parks Canada	Assessment of Dolly Varden stocks in Ivvavik National Park	Inuvik and Various Locations in Ivvavik National Park, Northwest Territories
Édouard Bélanger	Gwich'in Renewable Resources Board	Divii (Dall's sheep) research project	Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Scott Cairns	Northwest Territories Geological Survey	Core rescue from Preeble Island East Arm	Nonacho Lake, Northwest Territories
Scott Cairns	Northwest Territories Geological Survey	Lake sediment survey	Yellowknife, Mohawk Lake Esker, Northwest Territories
Erika Hille	Aurora College	Beaufort Sea coastal restoration project – using indigenous plant species to stabilize coastline affected by permafrost thaw slumping	Tuktoyaktuk, Tuktoyaktuk Island, Peninsula Point, Kugmallit Bay and Crumbling Point, Northwest Territories
Erika Hille	Aurora College	The geochemical responses of Arctic freshwater systems to regional variability in permafrost thaw	Inuvik and Kugmallit Bay, Northwest Territories
Steven Kokelj	Northwest Territories Geological Survey	Integrated methods to monitor and map permafrost geohazards, northwestern Northwest Territories	Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Bernadette Knox	Northwest Territories Geological Survey	Thermotectonic and metallogenic study of the Point Lake greenstone belt and "arrowhead outlier"	Various locations, Northwest Territories
Philippe Normandeau	Northwest Territories Geological Survey	Surficial geology, glacial history and bedrock investigation in the Dessert Lake Drumlin Field, Northwest Territories.	Dessert Lake Drumlin Field, Northwest Territories
Edith Martel	Northwest Territories Geological Survey	Tectonostratigraphy of the Nonacho Group basin and nature of basement rocks of the Rae Craton, Northwest Territories.	MacInnis Lake, Nonacho Lake, Talston Lake and Thekulthili Lake, Northwest Territories
Jiri Raska	Natural Resources Canada	Inuvik Satellite Station Facility	Inuvik, Northwest Territories

Nunavut

Primary Investigator	Institution	Project Title	Study Location(s)
Carson Banister	National Research Council	National Research Council Project – Cambridge Bay	Cambridge Bay, Nunavut
James Haggart	Natural Resources Canada	GEM2 Baffin Bay project community engagement	Pond Inlet, Nunavut
Joshua King	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Development of a new Canadian Arctic Archipelago sea ice product from ICESat-2 (Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2)	Eureka, Nunavut

Ontario

Primary Investigator	Institution	Project Title	Study Location(s)
International Boundary Commission (IBC)	Natural Resources Canada	Monument Maintenance	Brockville, Ontario*
Cindy S. Kliaman	Natural Resources Canada	Fieldwork on Wikwemikong Unceded Reserve, Manitoulin Island	Wikwemikong, Onario

Quebec

Primary Investigator	Institution	Project Title	Study Location(s)
Virginie Galindo	University of Quebec at Rimouski (UQAR)	Coastal oceanography – James Bay	James Bay, Quebec
International Boundary Commission (IBC)	Natural Resources Canada	Monument maintenance	Lac Megantic, Ville de Saint-Georges and Halls Stream, Quebec*
Christine Rivard	Natural Resources Canada	Béancour geothermal tests	Béancour, Quebec
Steve Thibeault	Natural Resources Canada	Forestry research – Laurentides Forestry Centre	Quebec, Quebec

Yukon

Primary Investigator	Institution	Project Title	Study Location(s)
Bruce Bennett	Government of Yukon	Impacts of climate change on Beringian species at risk	Carmacks, Yukon
Ian McDonald	Parks Canada	Hydrological and ecological research in Vuntut National Park, Yukon	Old Crow Flats, Yukon

PCSP-supported projects in 2019

Alberta

Primary Investigator	Institution	Project Title	Study Location(s)
Roland Hall	University of Waterloo	Paleolimnological studies to distinguish the roles of river regulation and climate change on persistent low water levels in the Peace-Athabasca Delta	Fort Chipewyan, Alberta
Brent Wolfe	Wilfrid Laurier University	A foundation for aquatic ecosystem monitoring of lakes in the Peace-Athabasca Delta	Fort Chipewyan, Alberta

British Columbia

Primary Investigator	Institution	Project Title	Study Location(s)
Dan Shugar	University of Calgary	Prospecting for a buried paleo-channel, Tweedsmuir Glacier, northern British Columbia	Tweedsmuir Glacier, British Columbia

Manitoba

Primary Investigator	Institution	Project Title	Study Location(s)
Andrew Derocher	University of Alberta	On ice ecology of polar bears in Hudson Bay	Churchill, Manitoba
Melissa Gibbons	Parks Canada	Sustaining hydroecological monitoring to assess state of the park in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba - 2019	Wapusk National Park, Manitoba
Erica Nol	Trent University	Tracking post-breeding dispersal in migratory shorebirds	Wapusk National Park, Manitoba
James Roth	University of Manitoba	Terrestrial food web interactions at the Arctic's edge	Locations in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba

Northwest Territories

Primary Investigator	Institution	Project Title	Study Location(s)
Pascal Audet	University of Ottawa	Banks Island Seismic Network (BISN): Seismic hazard and natural resource potential across Banks Island, NWT, and surrounding southwestern Canadian Arctic	Ulukhaktok (Victoria Island) and Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Jennifer Baltzer	Wilfrid Laurier University	Assessing terrain sensitivity to permafrost thaw and fire to understand and predict boreal caribou habitat and forage quality in the Sahtú	Norman Wells, Northwest Territories
Édouard Bélanger	Gwich'in Renewable Resources Board	Dall's Sheep Research Project	Richardson Mountains, Northwest Territories
Aaron Berg	University of Guelph	Changes to arctic precipitation interception due to land cover changes	Trail Valley Creek, Northwest Territories
David Burgess	Natural Resources Canada	Glacier mass balance - Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut & Northwest Territories	Melville Ice Cap (Melville Island), Northwest Territories*
Christopher Burn	Carleton University	Permafrost and climate change, western Arctic Canada	Garry Island and Illisarvik, Northwest Territories
Hayleigh Conway	Parks Canada	Investigation into the extent of slumping and its impact on landscape morphology within the Thomsen River Watershed in Aulavik National Park (N.W.T.).	Aulavik National Park (Banks Island), Northwest Territories
Scott Dallimore	Natural Resources Canada	Beaufort Sea coastal permafrost and geohazard studies	Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Rich DeVall	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Annual maintenance of Environment and Climate Change Canada's automatic weather station array - Arctic Archipelago	Mould Bay (Prince Patrick Island) and Cape Providence (Melville Island), Northwest Territories*
Michelle DeWolfe	Mount Royal University	Detailed study of the rhyolite dome and surrounding volcanic rocks at Sunset Lake, Slave craton, Northwest Territories	Sunset Lake, Northwest Territories
Mark Ednie	Natural Resources Canada	State and evolution of Canada's glaciers – mass balance Northern Cordillera, Northwest Territories	Bologna Glacier, Northwest Territories
Michael English	Wilfrid Laurier University	Subarctic metals mobility study	Various locations north of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories
Kathryn Fiess	Northwest Territories Geological Survey	Shale basin evolution in the Northwest Territories mainland	Norman Wells, Imperial River, Mountain River, Gayna Gorge, Carcajou River South and Powell Creek, Northwest Territories
Duane Froese	University of Alberta	Early opening of the Mackenzie valley and the setting of prominent thaw slumps	Keele River, Redstone River, Carcajou Canyon and Dry Falls, Northwest Territories
Colin Gallagher	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Population assessment of Dolly Varden 2019	Big Fish River, Northwest Territories*
Kirsty Gurney	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Understanding changes in aquatic ecosystem health and water quality in the Fort Good Hope – Ramparts area	Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories
Erika Hille	Aurora College	Beaufort Sea Coastal Restoration program - Using Indigenous plant species to mitigate the impacts of permafrost thaw slumping	Water Lake, Peninsula Point, Crumbling Point, Tuktoyaktuk Island and Kugmallit Bay, Northwest Territories
Erika Hille	Aurora College	Investigating the factors driving the water quality of streams in the Beaufort Delta region	Midway Lake, Northwest Territories
Erika Hille	Aurora College	The impacts of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on the aquatic health of tundra upland lakes	Noell Lake, Northwest Territories
Kimberly Howland	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Evaluating the cumulative impacts of climate change and other stressors on the Great Bear Lake ecosystem	Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories
Bernadette Knox	Northwest Territories Geological Survey	Targeted bedrock mapping of Archean volcanic belts and surrounding Archean basement complexes	Newbigging Lake, Desteffany Lake and Point Lake, Northwest Territories
Steven Kokelj	Northwest Territories Geological Survey	Integrated methods to monitor permafrost geohazards, northwestern NWT	Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Jennifer Korosi	York University	Long-term lake ecosystem change in the western Canadian Arctic	Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Trevor Lantz	University of Victoria	Vegetation change in the western Arctic	Locations near Anderson River, Outer Delta, Jimmy Lake, Husky Lakes and Sandy Hills, Northwest Territories*
Lisa Loseto	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Beluga telemetry and habitat research in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region	Shingle Point, East Whitefish and Hendrickson Island, Northwest Territories
Lisa Loseto	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Movement of coastal fishes in the Ulukhaktok region 2019	Ulukhaktok (Victoria Island), Northwest Territories
Marianne Marcoux	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Aerial survey of the Beaufort Sea beluga population	Inuvik, Northwest Territories*
Philip Marsh	Wilfrid Laurier University	Hydrology and climate of the western Canadian Arctic	Trail Valley Creek, Northwest Territories
Edith Martel	Northwest Territories Geological Survey	Tectonostratigraphy of the Nonacho Group basin and nature of basement rocks of the Rae Craton, Northwest Territories.	Gray Lake, Tent Lake, Nonacho Lake, MacInnis Lake and Salked Lake, Northwest Territories
Neil Mochnacz	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Defining the biothermal envelope of Dolly Varden in the Canadian Western Arctic to inform conservation planning.	Fish Creek (Rat River watershed), Northwest Territories
Andrea Niemi	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Vulnerabilities of Arctic Cod early life stages to changing oceanographic conditions in Arctic coastal embayments	Franklin Bay, Northwest Territories
Ashley Piskor	Parks Canada	Collecting digital imagery of significant cultural sites in Aulavik National Park	Aulavik National Park (Banks Island), Northwest Territories
Trevor Porter	University of Toronto	2,000 years of tree-rings and climate change in the Mackenzie Delta region	Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Eric Reed	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Integrating fixed-wing and helicopter surveys to improve detection and species identification of breeding scoters	Lynx Lake, Northwest Territories
Eric Reed	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Western Arctic snow goose management and habitat assessment	Sik Sik Lake and Banks Harbour (Banks Island), and Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Sharon Smith	Natural Resources Canada	Changing permafrost conditions in the Mackenzie Valley	Inuvik, Normal Wells and Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories
Suzanne Tank	University of Alberta	Land-water linkages and the fate of terrestrial carbon in aquatic ecosystems of the western Canadian Arctic	Inuvik and Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories
David Tavares	Parks Canada	Assessment of Dolly Varden stocks in Ivvavik National Park 2019	Inuvik, Northwest Territories*
Joost van der Sanden	Natural Resources Canada	Radar remote sensing for ice cover mapping	Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Dustin Whalen	Natural Resources Canada	Understanding the acceleration of climate driven coastal change in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region	Inuvik, Paulatuk, and Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories*
Stephen Wolfe	Natural Resources Canada	Abrupt change within the discontinuous permafrost zone	Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Nunavut

Primary Investigator	Institution	Project Title	Study Location(s)
Ray Alisauskas	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Karrak Lake assessment of continental efforts at population reduction of light geese	Perry River and Karrak Lake, Nunavut
Dermot Antoniades	Université Laval	Environmental change in aquatic ecosystems of northern Ellesmere Island	Stuckberry Valley and Lake Hazen, Quttinirpaaq National Park (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut
Dominique Berteaux	Université du Québec à Rimouski	Ecology of arctic and red fox on Bylot Island	Bylot Island, Nunavut
Joël Bêty	Université du Québec à Rimouski	Ecology of migratory birds in the Canadian Arctic	Bylot Island, Nunavut
Maya Bhatia	University of Alberta	Impacts of melting tidewater glaciers on marine biogeochemical cycles	Sverdrup Glacier and TrueLove lowlands (Devon Island), and Grise Fiord (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut
Jules Blais	University of Ottawa	Paleolimnological investigations of human and wildlife impacts on Arctic freshwater ecosystems	Cape Garry, Hazard Inlet and Whaler Point (Somerset Island), Bird Pond (Prince Leopold Island), and Fellfoot Point and Cape Vera (Devon Island), Nunavut
Martin Bouchard	Transport Canada	National Areal Surveillance Program - NASP	Resolute Bay, Nunavut
Stéphanie Breton/Eric McDonald	Natural Resources Canada	Power and energy system for underwater acoustic arrays at Gascoyne Inlet	Gascoyne Inlet (Devon Island), Nunavut
Michael Brohart	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Instrument calibration at Eureka weather station as part of the Canadian Brewer Spectrophotometer Network operation	Eureka (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut
Laura Brown	University of Toronto Mississauga	Lake ice in the Canadian High Arctic	Resolute (Cornwallis Island) and Polar Bear Pass (Bathurst Island), Nunavut
David Burgess	Natural Resources Canada	Glacier mass balance-Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut & Northwest Territories	Agassiz Ice Cap and Grise Fiord (Ellesmere Island), Devon Ice Cap (Devon Island), Meighen Ice Cap (Meighen Island), Nunavut*
Hsin Chiang	McGill University	A new window on the universe: radio astronomy from northern Canada	Expedition Fiord (Axel Heiberg Island), Nunavut
Alison Criscitiello	University of Alberta	Airborne gravity survey over Devon Ice Cap	Grise Fiord (Ellesmere Island) and Resolute (Cornwallis Island), Nunavut
Alexander Culley	Université Laval	Viral ecology of the high Canadian Arctic in water, ice and aerosols	Expedition Fiord (Axel Heiberg Island), Resolute (Cornwallis Island), Ward Hunt Island and Thores Lake (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut
Rich DeVall	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Annual maintenance of Environment and Climate Change Canada's automatic weather station array - Arctic Archipelago	Isachsen (Ellef Ringnes Island), Rea Point (Melville Island), Stefansson Island, Fort Ross (Somerset Island), Gateshead Island, Cape Liverpool (Bylot Island), Svarteveg (Axel Heiberg Island) and Grise Fiord (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut*
Florent Domine	Université Laval	Climate change in the High-Arctic: impact on wildlife and permafrost carbon stocks	Bylot Island, Nunavut
Florent Domine	Université Laval	Physical properties of seasonal and perennial snow cover in the high Arctic	Resolute (Cornwallis Island) and Ward Hunt Island, Nunavut
Kyle Elliott	McGill University	Year-round movement in two ice-associated seabirds at Coats Island: links to population parameters	Coats Island, Nunavut
Brent Else	University of Calgary	A weather station network near Cambridge Bay to support safe travel and fundamental boundary layer meteorology research	Cambridge Bay and 30-Mile River (Victoria Island), Qikirtaarjuk Island, and Melbourne Island, Nunavut
Carey Elverum	Parks Canada	Sirmilik National Park Operations 2019	Locations in Sirmilik National Park (Baffin Island and Bylot Island), Nunavut
Dominique Fauteux	Canadian Museum of Nature	Population dynamics and trophic interactions of Arctic rodents	Cambridge Bay (Victoria Island), Nunavut*
Daniel Fortier	Université de Montréal	Disturbance and transformation of permafrost Arctic geosystems	Bylot Island, Nunavut
Daniel Fortier	Université de Montréal	GEO-NEIGE: Geomorphology of northern Ellesmere Island in the global environment	Ward Hunt Island, Nunavut
Marlene Francis	Natural Resources Canada	Fuel drum removal and disposal- Pond Inlet & Bylot Island, Nunavut	Pond Inlet (Baffin Island), Nunavut
Pierre Francus	Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique	Annually laminated sediments (varves) of the Canadian High Arctic	Strathcona Lake (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut
Max Friesen	University of Toronto	Inuinnait Heritage: A Collaborative Approach to Archaeological Research in the Canadian Arctic	Bathurst Inlet and Kent Peninsula, Nunavut
Gilles Gauthier	Université Laval	Biology of bird and small tundra mammal populations: Demographics, trophic interactions and climate change	Bylot Island, Nunavut
Grant Gilchrist	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Population studies of eider ducks breeding at East Bay Island and thick-billed murres breeding at Coats Island, Nunavut	East Bay Island (Southampton Island) and Coats Island, Nunavut
Grant Gilchrist	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Population surveys of endangered ivory gulls on Ellesmere and Devon Islands	Grise Fiord (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut
Catherine Girard	Université Laval	Aerosol virome of Resolute Bay: dispersal of microbial populations in a warming Arctic	Resolute (Cornwallis Island), Nunavut
Marie-Andrée Giroux	Université de Moncton	Connections between the Arctic and distant ecosystems through animal migrations: consequences on trophic interactions in the Arctic	Cambridge Bay (Victoria Island) and Igloolik Island, Nunavut
Etienne Godin	University of Western Ontario	Periglacial geomorphology and ground ice investigation in the Haughton impact structure area, Devon Island, Nunavut	Haughton River Valley (Devon Island), Nunavut
John Gosse	Dalhousie University	PoLAR-FIT Project 2019: Pliocene paleoclimate, paleontology, and paleoecology, Ellesmere Island: Core archive and proteomics	Grist Fiord, Vendom Fiord, Strathcona Fiord and Fyles Leaf Bed (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut
Les Harris	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Fishery independent sampling of Cambridge Bay Arctic char with emphasis on the Lauchlan River stock: Year 2 of 5	Byron Bay (Victoria Island), Nunavut
Greg Henry	University of British Columbia	Tundra ecosystem responses to 30 years of observed and experimental climate change	Alexandra Fiord, Princess Marie Bay and Sverdrup Pass (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut
Kimberly Howland	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Development of tools and capacity for community-based monitoring of biodiversity shifts and early detection of aquatic invasive species (AIS) in the Canadian Arctic	Ragged Island, Nunavut
Alessandro Ielpi	Laurentian University	Fury and Hecla geoscience project, Melville Peninsula 2019	Melville Peninsula and Igloolik (Igloolik Island), Nunavut
Emily Jenkins	University of Saskatchewan	Assessing risks of food and vector borne diseases in wildlife in the Canadian Arctic	Karrak Lake and Perry River, Nunavut
Deborah Johnson	Hamlet of Arctic Bay	Repeater towers	Locations adjacent to Admiralty Inlet (Baffin Island), Nunavut
Martin Kegel	Natural Resources Canada	Joint Arctic experiment 2019	Resolute (Cornwallis Island), Nunavut
Christophe Kinnard	Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières	Spatial heterogeneity of soil-snow-plant interactions in the high Arctic ecosystem	Bylot Island, Nunavut
Denis Lacelle	University of Ottawa	Holocene ice wedge activity in the Eureka Sound region, high Arctic Canada.	Eureka (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut
Jean-François Lamarre	Polar Knowledge Canada	Migratory and breeding ecology of birds facing global environmental change	Anderson bay and Icebreaker Channel, Nunavut
Mark Lamothe	Natural Resources Canada	Eureka geomagnetic electronic replacement	Eureka (Ellesmere Island) and Resolute (Cornwallis Island), Nunavut
Scott Lamoureux	Queen's University	Impacts of climate and permafrost change on High Arctic water and land systems	Cape Bounty (Melville Island) and Resolute (Cornwallis Island), Nunavut
Isabelle Laurion	Institut national de la recherche scientifique	Effect of climate on Arctic lakes: seasonality, biogeochemical functioning and greenhouse gas emissions	Qarlikturvik Valley, Sirmilik National Park (Bylot Island), Nunavut
Jim Leafloor	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Baffin Island goose banding	Nikko Island (Baffin Island), Nunavut
Jim Leafloor	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Southampton Island goose banding	Coral Harbor (Southampton Island), Nunavut
Jim Leafloor	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Survival in Arctic geese (Perry River, Queen Maud Gulf Bird Sanctuary)	Perry River, Nunavut
Lorraine Lebeau	Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office	Fury and Hecla geoscience project	Gifford River, Jungerson River and Ivisarak Lake (Baffin Island), Nunavut
Nicolas Lecomte	Université de Moncton	Arctic IMPACTS: Tracking impacts of ecosystem changes in the Arctic	Bylot Island, Igloolik Island and Eureka (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut
Josée Lefebvre	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Population dynamics of Greater Snow Geese in relation to habitat	Bylot Island, Nunavut
Igor Lehnherr	University of Toronto	Out of the freezer and into the fire: Climate-warming driven contaminant mobilization from glaciers to downstream freshwater ecosystems	Lake Hazen (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut
Esther Lévesque	Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières	Plant community dynamics in a changing environment: permafrost-vegetation interactions in polar deserts.	Ward Hunt Island, Nunavut
Tracey Loewen	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Restoration of anadromous Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) and Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malma malma) near Kugluktuk, NU	Kugluktuk, Nunavut
Oliver Love	University of Windsor	Stress-mediated mechanisms linking individual state, climate variability and population health in Arctic-breeding birds	East Bay Island (Southampton Island), Nunavut
Mark Mallory	Acadia University	Contaminants in seabirds at Prince Leopold Island	Prince Leopold Island, Nunavut
Mark Mallory	Acadia University	Seabird census and paleo history at Cape Vera, NU	Cape Vera (Devon Island), Nunavut
Mark Mallory	Acadia University	Tracking Arctic terns in the high Arctic	Tern Island, Nunavut
Conor Mallory	Government of Nunavut	Wolf predation and Peary caribou population composition on the Bathurst Island Complex	Various locations on Bathurst Island, Nunavut
Marianne Marcoux	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Aerial survey of the Beaufort Sea beluga population	Resolute (Cornwallis Island), Nunavut*
Marianne Marcoux	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Narwhal passive ecosystem monitoring in Tremblay Sound	Tremblay Sound (Baffin Island), Nunavut
Zoya Martin	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Mixed-stock fisheries analysis near Pond Inlet, Nunavut.	Pond Inlet (Baffin Island), Nunavut
Donald McLennan	Polar Knowledge Canada	Canadian High Arctic Research Station environmental research area	Cambridge Bay (Victoria Island), Nunavut
Christine Michel	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Multidisciplinary Arctic Program (MAP) - Last Ice	Alert (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut
Gifford Miller	University of Colorado Boulder	Disappearing Ice	Serpens Ice Cap and Africa Lake (Baffin Island), Nunavut
Gifford Miller	University of Colorado Boulder	Predicting Arctic change through ecosystem molecular proxies (PACEMAP)	Clyde River (Baffin Island), Nunavut
Joseph Monteith	Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada	2019 high Arctic and Qiktani water licence, land use, and lease inspections	Locations on Cornwallis Island, Devon Island, Ellef Ringnes Island, King Christian Island, Lougheed Island, Bathurst Island, Melville Island, Ellesmere Island, Somerset Island and Prince Leopold Island, Nunavut
Brian Moorman	University of Calgary	Rapid landscape evolution at the permafrost-glacier interface	Bylot Island, Nunavut
Douglas Morris	Lakehead University	Dynamics and habitat use by lemmings under climate change	Cambridge Bay (Victoria Island) and Walker Bay, Nunavut
Derek Mueller	Carleton University	Milne Fiord ice-ocean interactions: Implications for the stability of ice shelves and glaciers in the Polar Regions	Purple Valley Strip and Milne Ice Shelf (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut
Derek Muir	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Investigating potential effects of climate warming on trends of mercury and persistent organic pollutants in arctic aquatic and terrestrial environments	Resolute and Amiktuk Lake (Cornwallis Island), and Cape Bounty (Melville Island), Nunavut
Susan Murch	University of British Columbia	ARCTIC Change - (Arctic Research and Conservation Trip Investigating Climate Change)	Resolute Bay (Cornwallis Island), Nunavut
Mathew Nauyuq	Parks Canada	Aircraft support for Auyuittuq National Park operations and research	Penny Ice Cap and Pangnirtung (Baffin Island), Nunavut
Erica Nol	Trent University	Effects of overabundant arctic geese on other tundra nesting birds	East Bay Mainland (Southampton Island), Nunavut
Gordon Osinski	University of Western Ontario	A multidisciplinary study of glacial and periglacial processes on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut	Buchanan Lake (Axel Heiberg Island), Nunavut
Karsten Piepjohn	Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources [Germany]	Fuel depot for CASE 22-Parry Islands	Resolute (Cornwallis Island), Nunavut
Angela Piercey	Parks Canada	Quttinirpaaq National Park operating season 2019	Locations in Quttinirpaaq National Park (Ellesmere Island and Ward Hunt Island), Nunavut
Lisa Pirie-Dominix	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Nirjutiqavvik National Wildlife Area - North Water Research Station clean-up	Coburg Island, Nirjutiqavvik National Wildlife Area, Nunavut
Wayne Pollard	McGill University	McGill Arctic Research Station (MARS) science program	Expedition Fiord (Axel Heiberg Island), Nunavut
Wayne Pollard	McGill University	The vulnerability and resiliency of ice-rich permafrost in cold polar desert environments in response to changing climate	Eureka (Ellesmere Island) and Expedition Fiord (Axel Heiberg Island), Nunavut
Wayne Pollard	McGill University	The vulnerability of high Arctic permafrost to climate change	Expedition Fiord (Axel Heiberg Island), Nunavut
Michael Power	University of Waterloo	Functional, structural and biodiversity studies of Arctic freshwater watersheds: validating protocols for monitoring and cumulative impacts assessment	Cambridge Bay (Victoria Island), Nunavut
Jennie Rausch	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Arctic shorebird monitoring program (Arctic PRISM) - Tier 1 surveys	Air Force Island, Prince Charles Island and Rasmussen Lowlands, Nunavut
Jennie Rausch	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Population studies of shorebirds at Nanuit Itillinga Polar Bear Pass National Wildlife Area, Nunavut (Arctic PRISM Tier 2 Site)	Polar Bear Pass (Bathhurst Island), Nunavut
Murray Richardson	Carleton University	Water, carbon and mercury cycling in Arctic terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems	Iqaluit, Nunavut
Claudia Schröder-Adams	Carleton University	Understanding Cretaceous High Arctic paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic change	Locations on Axel Heiberg Island and Devon Island, Nunavut
Christina Semeniuk	University of Windsor	Population plasticity in behavioural responses and their consequences to novel predator-prey interactions under changing biotic and abiotic stressors on Mitivik (East Bay) Island, Nunavut	East Bay Island (Southampton Island), Nunavut
Martin Sharp	University of Alberta	Dynamics and change of Canadian Arctic ice caps	Sverdrup Glacier (Devon Island) and Lake Hazen (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut
Jovan Simic	Parks Canada	Qausuittuq National Park operations 2019	Locations in Qausuittuq National Park (Bathurst Island), Nunavut
Paul Smith/Grant Gilchrist	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Inuit Field Training Program at East Bay mainland and Prince Charles Island, Nunavut	East Bay Mainland (Southampton Island) and Prince Charles Island, Nunavut
Paul Smith/Jennie Rausch	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Population studies of shorebirds at East Bay Mainland and Prince Charles Island, Nunavut	East Bay (Southampton Island) and Prince Charles Island, Nunavut
Jennifer Spearman	Defence Research and Development Canada	Canadian Arctic Underwater Sentinel Experimentation (CAUSE) project	Gascoyne Inlet (Devon Island), Nunavut
Vincent St. Louis	University of Alberta	The impacts of rapidly receding glaciers on downstream freshwater resources and ecological services	Lake Hazen, Quttinirpaaq National Park (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut
Guillaume St-Onge	Université du Québec à Rimouski	High frequency dynamics of the high Arctic geomagnetic field during the Late Quaternary	Stuckberry Valley (Ellesmere Island), Nunavut
Laura Thomson	Queen's University	Glacier dynamics and downstream impacts on Axel Heiberg Island, NU	Expedition Fiord (Axel Heiberg Island), Nunavut
Tommy Tremblay	Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office	Northeastern Baffin Island and Ulinniq surficial geology projects	Pond Inlet and Clyde River (Baffin Island), Nunavut
Warwick Vincent	Université Laval	Northern Ellesmere Island in the global environment – Sentinel North	Resolute (Cornwallis Island), Thores Lake (Ellesmere Island) and Ward Hunt Island, Nunavut
Lyle Whyte	McGill University	Assessment of natural attenuation of an experimental oil spill on an Arctic beach	Resolute Bay (Cornwallis Island), Nunavut
Lyle Whyte	McGill University	Microbial investigations of permafrost and cold saline springs in the high Arctic	Expedition Fiord (Axel Heiberg Island), Nunavut
Monty Yank	Parks Canada	2019 Ukkusiksalik National Park operations	Locations in Ukkusiksalik National Park, Nunavut

Quebec

Primary Investigator	Institution	Project Title	Study Location(s)
Dominique Fauteux	Canadian Museum of Nature	Population dynamics and trophic interactions of Arctic rodents	Salluit, Quebec*

Yukon

Primary Investigator	Institution	Project Title	Study Location(s)
Michel Baraer	École de technologie supérieure	Multi-scale assessment of environmental changes impact on glacierized watersheds hydrology of Yukon	Grizzly Creek, Kluane National Park and Reserve and Silver City, Yukon
Bruce Bennett	Yukon Government	Inventory of species at risk and rare species in Daadzaii Van Territorial Park in northern Yukon	Summit Lake, Yukon
Fabrice Calmels	Yukon College	Permafrost vulnerability in Old Crow Flats, Yukon	Eagle Plains, Yukon
Luke Copland	University of Ottawa	Mass balance, dynamics and recent changes of glaciers in Kluane National Park, Yukon	Donjek Glacier, Kaskawulsh Glacier and St. Elias Icefield, Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon
Christine Dow	University of Waterloo	A comprehensive analysis of surging glacier dynamics and controls in the Yukon Territory, Canada	Lowell Glacier, Yukon
Darius Elias	Vuntut Gwitchin Government	Fishing branch river chum salmon instream incubation	Eagle Plains, Yukon
Gwenn Flowers	Simon Fraser University	Observational constraints on glacier form and flow, southwest Yukon, Canada	Silver City, Kluane Lake, and locations in Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon
Colin Gallagher	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Population assessment of Dolly Varden 2019	Babbage River and Rat River, Yukon*
Ty Heffner	Government of Yukon	Archaeological field research in Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Traditional Territory, Northern Yukon	Old Crow, Yukon
Lisa Hodgetts	University of Western Ontario	Inuvialuit living history project: Imniarvik culture and heritage camp	Imniarvik, Ivvavik National Park, Yukon
Trevor Lantz	University of Victoria	Vegetation change in the western Arctic	Locations near Coal Mine Lake, Blow River and Babbage River, Yukon*
Ian McDonald	Parks Canada	Hydrological and ecological research in Vuntut National Park, Yukon	Old Crow, Yukon
Bernhard Rabus	Simon Fraser University	Dual-band airborne radar remote sensing for monitoring Arctic climate change processes	Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon
Valentina Radic	University of British Columbia	A field laboratory for energy and mass exchange at glacier surfaces	Kaskawulsh Glacier, Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon
Christian Schoof	University of British Columbia	Subglacial hydraulics and glacier dynamics in the Donjek Ranges	Kaskawulsh Glacier and Donjek Glacier, Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon
Shirleen Smtih	Vuntut Gwitchin Government	Van Tat Gwich'in Historic Lifeways Project 2019-20	Upper Timber Creek and Ch'adaghoo Mountain, Yukon
David Tavares	Parks Canada	Assessment of Dolly Varden stocks in Ivvavik National Park 2019	Firth River, Fish Creek, Joe Creek and Sheep Creek, Yukon*
Dustin Whalen	Natural Resources Canada	Understanding the acceleration of climate driven coastal change in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region	Komakuk, Yukon*
Carmen Wong	Parks Canada	Why are kokanee salmon declining in Yukon?	Sockeye Lake, Yukon
Grant Zazula	Government of Yukon	Pleistocene palaeontology of the Old Crow Basin, northern Yukon	Old Crow River, Yukon