News

December 20, 2018

ARI staff attended ArcticNet's Annual Scientific Meeting this year at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa from December 10-14. Vice President, Research Pippa Seccombe-Hett along with Christopher Burn, a 2018 recipient of the Governor General's Polar Medal and ARI Research Associate, and Scott Dallimore chaired a session on the United Nations Environmental Program Rapid Response Assessment on Coastal Permafrost. Davonna Kasook, ARI's Licensing Coordinator, and graduate of Aurora College delivered a paper, "Using ArcGIS Story Map as tool to educate and facilitate geo-spatial knowledge transfer' and Garfield Giff, ARI's Manager, GIS presented a paper, "Using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to map and monitor the effects of climate-driven changes on the Western Arctic Environment: A Caribou Hills case study."

December 18, 2018

Read Eosense's article on how the Eosense eosFD soil flux was developed to monitor CO2  levels in soil respiration measurements in Arctic climates. Dr. Ronald Layden, in his role as Manager, North Slave Research Centre, along with ARI staff Erika Hille, Edwin Amos and St. Francis Xavier University's Chirs MacIntyre used the devices to determine if they could measure microclimate changes. The research was supported by a grant from the NSERC College and Community Innovation Fund.

December 11, 2018

In 2017, the Aurora Research Institute received funding from the Coastal Restoration Fund (Fisheries and Oceans Canada) to study permafrost thaw slumping on Kugmallit Bay and create a plan to mitigate the effects using local plant species. The 2018 annual research update gives an overview of the research conducted so far and outlines future work. […]

December 6, 2018

Check out how ARI staff Erika Hille and Edwin Amos are training Tuktoyaktuk residents to monitor climate change in partnership with the Tuktoyaktuk Community Corporation.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/tuktoyaktuk-climate-change-program-1.4929164 

August 20, 2018

This Thursday at 7pm will be the final installment of our 2018 Summer Speaker Series.  The evening’s talks will feature projects with strong ties to our communities. So bring a friend – we’ll see you there!

May 28, 2018

Join us on Wednesday, May 30th at 7 pm to learn more about Polar Knowledge Canada and their work in the north. You’ll also have a chance to share your perspectives on research priorities for the region. 

May 14, 2018

Thursday, May 17 at 6 pm, come to ARI for a research talk by Branden Walker, who uses drones to map snow, and looks at how the changes in local vegetation cover may impact our spring runoff and stream systems.   Branden explains further: “Increasing shrub cover into tundra regions has resulted in a changing end-of-winter […]

May 11, 2018

ARI and BDEC are proud to be hosting the 4th Science Rendezvous in Inuvik. Come on out to the Elementary School this Saturday between 11am and 3pm to see the science behind our community! There will be exhibits from over 30 local organizations, all with hands-on activities and experiments to try, and SWAG to take […]

May 3, 2018

Join us at ARI Thursday May 3 at 6pm for a research presentation by Tim Ensom of Wilfred Laurier University.  We’ll have snacks and door prizes, and everyone is welcome. The poster is attached, so feel free to spread the word. To learn more about ongoing research project, you can visit the NWT Research Database […]

February 6, 2018

On Tuesday, July 25th at 7 pm at The Aurora Research Institute, Drew Ann Wake and Dr. Christie will give a remarkable presentation titled “Thunder in our Voices”. “In 1975-6, Justice Thomas Berger visited thirty Dene and Inuvialuit communities for hearings on the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline. More than 900 northerners spoke. Now, one of the […]