Research Projects - Environment

Led by Max Holmes (Woods Hole Research Centre), Arctic GRO is a coordinated, international effort to collect and analyze a time-series of water quality and river discharge information from the six largest arctic rivers using identical sampling and analytical protocols....

We are interested in exploring the cycling of metals and nutrients under ice and how changing lake ice conditions may influence some of these processes.  A better understanding of the physical and chemical limnology of lakes is important as changes...

INTERACT is a circumarctic network of currently 89 terrestrial field bases in northern Europe, Russia, US, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Scotland as well as stations in northern alpine areas. INTERACT specifically seeks to build capacity for research...

Permafrost provides a foundation for northern ecosystems, infrastructure and communities. Permafrost conditions are inextricably linked to climate, so information on permafrost is now increasingly critical for environmental monitoring and research, assessing the effects of climate change and for planning and...

The Trail Valley Creek Research Station is located 50 km north of Inuvik, Northwest Territories. Research started at this site in 1991. Trail Valley Creek drains 58 km2 of tundra, with patches of shrubs and boreal forest, and is underlain...

Recent climate warming has led to increases in surface air and ground temperatures, which has contributed to regional permafrost degradation, or permafrost thaw, across the Beaufort Delta Region. Thawing permafrost has led to infrastructure challenges across the region; roads and...

Air is one of our most precious resources, and is vital to life on earth.  Maintaining good air quality in the NWT is an important factor in environmental protection and the protection of human health.  Sources of air pollution that...

ARI has partnered with Dr. Aleck Wang of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to monitor water quality parameters in the East Channel of the Mackenzie River near the town of Inuvik. The goal of this monitoring program is to take time-series...

Retrogressive thaw slumping, due to climate change, is an extreme form of permafrost thaw. This occurs when ice-rich sediment begins to melt, causing the ground to become unstable and collapse. This has significant implications for freshwater systems. There have been...

The overall goal of this study is to explore the potential for using indigenous plant species to revegetate coastline affected by permafrost thaw slumping. Although vegetation is a well-known method for stabilizing soil, little has been done to apply these...