Occurring throughout Fall 2021, NWF’s Virtual Webinar Series highlighted completed and ongoing research projects. Each session was comprised of several short talks (7-10 minutes each) followed by a discussion, and provided an excellent opportunity for fruitful discussion and cross-project connections.
Sessions
Community health and wellbeing: December 8, 2021, 11 am – 12 pm EST
“Contaminant Biomonitoring Among Dene/Métis Communities of the Northwest Territories: Key Findings and Remaining Questions” by Dr. Brian Laird, Associate Professor in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo and NWF co-Investigator
“Traditional food consumption in the Sahtu and Dehcho regions, NWT” by Dr. Kelly Skinner, Associate Professor in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo and NWF co-Investigator
“Climate Change Impact on Harvester Safety and Traditional Food Access” by Neomi Jayaratne, MES graduate from Wilfrid Laurier University and former NWF collaborator
“The impact of land use change on Soil Carbon” by David Bysouth, PhD candidate working with Dr. Turetsky and Dr. Spring at the University of Guelph
‘ “It’s not being on the land, it’s like we are a part of the land.”: Stories from Indigenous youth during on-the-land camps in the Dehcho’ by Stephanie Woodworth, PhD candidate working with Dr. Wesche and Dr. Spring at the University of Ottawa
Climate change impacts on wildfire forage and traditional food resources: November 17, 2021, 11 am – 12 pm EST
“Wildlife forage recovery following fire” by Alexis Jorgensen, recent MSc graduate and research assistant with the Forest Ecology Research Group at Wilfrid Laurier University
“Food fish safety: mercury” by Dr. Heidi Swanson, Associate Professor in Biology at the University of Waterloo and NWF co-Investigator
“How does caribou forage recover after wildfire?” by Geneviève Degré-Timmons, MSc candidate in Wood and Forest Sciences at Laval University
“Catchment influence on fish growth” by Mehdi Moslemi Aqdam, PhD candidate working with Dr. Swanson at the University of Waterloo
“Reducing mercury concentration in Northern Pike in a small Subarctic lake using intensive fishing” by Dr. Heather Dixon, Professional Research Associate at Wilfrid Laurier University and NWF collaborator
Terrestrial-aquatic linkages: impacts of natural and anthropogenic disturbance: October 27, 2021, 11 am – 12 pm EST
“Understanding the link between terrestrial and aquatic systems using Dissolved Organic Matter characteristics“ by Dr. Pieter Aukes, Water Sciences Instructor at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and former NWF collaborator
“Impacts of wildfires on lakes in the Sahtu Settlement Region” by Dr. Derek Gray, Assistant Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University and NWF co-Investigator
“Land cover change impacts on methylmercury” by Dr. Leanne Baker, Senior Consultant with Environmental Resources Management (ERM) and former NWF collaborator
“Possible effects of permafrost thaw on invertebrates in Mackenzie Delta lakes” by Dr. Derek Gray, Assistant Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University and NWF co-Investigator
Northern fluxes in response to landcover and climate change: October 6, 2021, 10 am – 11 am EST
“A multi-scale approach to determine greenhouse gas exchange at Trail Valley Creek” by Dr. Carolina Voigt, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Eastern Finland and NWF collaborator
“A multiscale study of Taiga Shield ecohydrology” by Dr. Chris Spence, Research Scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada and NWF co-Investigator
“Impact of the variability of measured and simulated tundra snowpack properties on heat transfer” by Victoria Dutch, PhD student at Northumbria University, supervised by Dr. Derksen, and NWF collaborator
“Boreal tree transpiration” by Nia Perron, PhD student at Universite de Montreal, co-supervised by Dr. Sonnentag and Dr. Baltzer, and NWF collaborator
“Groundwater in the north” by Dr. David Rudolph, Professor in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Waterloo and NWF co-Investigator
Climate warming induced landcover change in the NWT Part II – detection and forecasting: September 22, 2021, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EST
“Estimating ground ice content from remote sensing data” by Qianyu Chang, PhD student with Dr. Aaron Berg at the University of Guelph and NWF collaborator
“Forecasting Landcover Change: Forests, Next Steps and Downstream Management Needs” by Dr. Eliot McIntire, Research Scientist at the Pacific Forestry Centre with Canadian Forest Service and GWF collaborator
“Territory-wide detection of landcover change” by Dr. Brendan Rogers, Associate Scientist at Woodwell Climate Research Center and NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment Researcher
“Representing the Arctic land surface in Earth System Models” by Dr. Marysa Lague, Dr. Marysa Lague, Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Coldwater Lab at the University of Saskatchewan and GWF collaborator
Climate warming induced landcover change in the NWT Part I – biological and physical changes: September 8, 2021, 11 am – 12 pm EST
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