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Arviat Goes Green

Nunavut communities must work towards building their capacity to withstand impacts from climate change. The Climate Change Secretariat promotes and supports knowledge sharing of community-based climate change adaptation solutions.Nunavut communities must work towards building their capacity to withstand impacts from climate change. The Climate Change Secretariat promotes and supports knowledge sharing of community-based climate change adaptation solutions.

Assessing Berries to Monitor Ecological Change: a collaboration with Nunavut Arctic College's Environmental Technology Program

Students of ETP have been contributing to a multidisciplinary study looking at vegetation response in a warming Arctic context, with a focus on berry ecology and productivity of 3 favourite species: Blueberry (Kigutangirnaq/Vaccinium uliginosum), Crowberry (Paurngaq/Empetrum nigrum) and Cranberry (Kimminaq/Vaccinium vitis-idaea). From 2009 to 2013 they have been collecting berries following a scientific protocol in a permanent monitoring plot near their fall camp location at Peterhead Inlet, near Iqaluit.