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Arctic Research @ UNBC. The University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) is a small, research-intensive university in Prince George, BC. It has ~3500 students, ~500 of which are graduate students. UNBC has a mandate to serve the needs of northern BC and beyond. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Arctic Research @ UNBC
Stephen DéryOn behalf of UNBC researchers
Arctic Forum 2007
The University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) is a small, research-intensive university in Prince George,
BC.It has ~3500 students, ~500 of which
are graduate students.UNBC has a mandate to serve the needs of northern BC and beyond.
Many of its faculty conduct research in the Arctic.
Sarah Boon (Geography)
• is part of an international IPY project called GLACIODYN whose goal is to examine the response of circumpolar tidewater glaciers to climate change.
• The Canadian component focuses on Belcher Glacier, a tidewater outlet of the Devon Ice Cap.
• http://web.unbc.ca/~boon/IPY/index.html
• has a Ph.D. student, Katherine Stewart, who looks at the response of nutrient cycling in arctic tundra ecosystems to climate change;
• research site for this IPY project is at Daring Lake, NWT.
Darwyn Coxson (Ecosystem Science &
Management)
Stephen Déry (Environmental
Science & Engineering)
• IPY-funded research focuses on the role of teleconnections on Arctic hydrology;
• also investigating trends in Northern Hemisphere snowcover extent.
• http://web.unbc.ca/~sdery/
Kevin Hall (Geography)
• works on cold region weathering processes and landforms, periglacial processes, and the impact of climate change on these.
Scott Green (Ecosystem Science &
Management)
• examines northern treeline dynamics in central and northern Yukon, with a particular focus on responses to climate change;
• works with numerous Yukon resource managers and IPY collaborators from UofA and UofS.
Chris Johnson (Ecosystem Science &
Management)
• focuses on understanding the ecological resilience & population/distribution dynamics of barren-ground caribou in NWT & Nunavut;
• specifically interested in 1) fire dynamics-lichen ecology-caribou distribution on the winter range; 2) interactions between population productivity, biting insects, & weather.
Patrick Maher (Outdoor Recreation & Tourism Management)
• works on cruise tourism in the Arctic in regards to the experiences and management of visitors at protected areas;
• studies the impacts that climate change will have on the industry & on communities;
• also works on a polar tourism research network with colleagues worldwide.
Paul Sanborn (Ecosystem Science &
Management)
• collaborates with geologists and paleontologists to study soils as a recorder of long-term environmental changes in northwestern Canada;
• emphasizes sites in the west-central Yukon, and the Mackenzie Mountains of the NWT.
Gary Wilson (Political Science)
• focuses on international relations between various Inuit regions in the circumpolar north through the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC).
• also looks at regional autonomy in northern Canada and Russia, with a focus on Nunavik & various regions in the Russian circumpolar north.