What's Being Done — And What You Can Do To Help!
Below is a list of climate change-related projects in Nunavut. Some are complete, while others are ongoing, and offer a way for local residents to get involved:
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Climate Change Projects
Community Research Projects
| Project Title | Project Categories | Post Date | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| The emerging Arctic security environment | Security & Safety | 03-06-2012 |
Our project examines the fundamental questions: what is Arctic security? What should policy makers anticipate that the circumpolar world will look like in the future, given the various forces that are now transforming this region? |
| Impact of climate change on the life of the Arctic Ocean floor | Animals, Aquatic Environment, Traditional Activities | 03-06-2012 |
Climate warming is driving a rapid transformation of polar ecosystems, and we urgently need to study the vulnerability of seafloor biodiversity to changes that are already underway. |
| Industrial development and Arctic communities: environmental and social change | Resource Development, Terrestrial Environment, Traditional Activities | 03-06-2012 |
This project will explore the cultural, economic and environmental impacts of mineral exploration and development on four Arctic communities. |
| Climate change and commercial shipping development in the Arctic | Resource Development, Transportation | 03-06-2012 |
To what extent will shipping develop in the Northwest and Northeast Passages, and with what kind of shipping: will it be transit shipping, fishing, tourism, transportation induced by natural resources mining? |
| Past and present changes to the ocean and sea-ice in the Arctic Archipelago | Aquatic Environment, Sea Ice & Ice, Sea Level | 03-06-2012 |
The goal of this project is to provide the modelling framework for future impact studies on the Canadian Arctic Archipelago’s pack ice, oceanography and marine food web. |
| Sea Ice of the Arctic | Aquatic Environment, Sea Ice & Ice | 03-06-2012 |
This project brings together key sea ice researchers to examine the processes that cause the observed changes in sea ice dynamic and thermodynamic processes, snow cover, and physical coupling across the ocean-sea ice-atmosphere (OSA) interface. |
| Cape Bounty Arctic Watershed Observatory (CBAWO), Melville Island | Aquatic Environment, Watershed | 03-06-2012 |
To determine the impacts of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems and freshwater quality and availability in the High Arctic, we created a water-shed and landscape ecosystem observation network. |
| ArcticNet Integrated Regional Impact Studies (IRIS) | Animals, Aquatic Environment, Energy, Food Security, Health & Disease, Heritage, IQ, Landscape, Permafrost, Plants, Resource Development, Sea Ice & Ice, Sea Level, Security & Safety, Temperature, Terrestrial Environment, Tourism, Traditional Activities, Transportation, Watershed, Weather & Precipitation | 03-16-2012 |
ArcticNet brings together scientists and managers with their partners from Inuit organizations, northern communities, federal and provincial agencies and the private sector to study the impacts of climate change in the coastal Canadian Arctic. |
| Community adaptation in a changing Arctic | IQ, Landscape, Permafrost, Sea Ice & Ice | 04-09-2013 |
Communities across the Canadian Arctic are exposed and sensitive to changes in social, political, cultural environmental and economic |
| Effects of climate change on the Arctic wildlife | Animals | 04-09-2013 |
Many northern ecosystems are undergoing major shifts related to climate change. |