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The People, Animals, Water and Sustenance Program

What is PAWS?

The People, Animals, Water, and Sustenance (PAWS) Project is interested in gaining a better understanding of the relationships Iqaluit Inuit have with dogs, water, and food. Currently there are gaps in our understanding of the interactions between dogs, water, and food in a Northern context. In-depth interviews on these topics coupled with sampling of dog feces, water, and clams will help us understand how these relationships interact together and how these relationships may be changing.

Building Capacity to Monitor the Risk of Climate Change on Water Quality and Human Health: A Two Year Journey Expanding Community-Based Leadership in Pond Inlet

A community project in Pond Inlet. We are a group of 3 young Mittimatalirmiut and we wish to research water quality and develop more skills in research! Access to healthy water is of paramount importance for Mittimatalirmiut. Water is important to keep us alive, sturdy and healthy; and bad water can be harmful for our people- our beloved elders, youth and infants. Water also an important cultural value to our people since many of us are going out on the land in order to provide our family with fresh water, just as our elders used to and they proudly taught us.

Water, mud, and bubbles: Impacts of permafrost degradation on greenhouse gas emissions from Arctic ponds and lakes

Carbon cycle dynamics in response to permafrost degradation is a ‘hot topic’ in northern research. We are particularly interested in greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4) emitted from ‘thermokarst’ aquatic ecosystems, i.e. ponds and lakes formed by the thawing of ice-rich permafrost. Such thawing results in the atmospheric release (as CO2 and CH4) of old carbon formerly trapped frozen in the ground. One of the main challenges is to sample efficiently these gases, especially small bubbles rising through the water column.

Cape Bounty Arctic Watershed Observatory (CBAWO) (station d'observation arctique des bassins hydrographiques de Cape Bounty), île Melville

Afin de déterminer les effets des changements climatiques sur les écosystèmes terrestres ainsi que sur la qualité et la disponibilité de l’eau douce dans le Haut-Arctique, nous avons créé un réseau d’observation des écosystèmes des bassins hydrographiques et du paysage. 

Glace marine de l’Arctique

Ce projet rassemble des chercheurs chevronnés en matière de glace marine pour l’analyse des facteurs qui causent les changements observés dans la dynamique de la glace marine, dans les processus thermodynamiques, dans la couche de neige et dans le couplage physique lié aux échanges océan-glace marine-atmosphère.