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Northern Research Chairs were established to augment and promote Canadian university northern research and training in the natural sciences and engineering. The program’s long-term goal is to increase Canadian university expertise in northern research issues and to provide a training environment for northern researchers of the future. It will also provide new knowledge required to understand the North and predict its future.
Christopher Burn | Carleton University | Permafrost in the Yukon and Northwest Territories |
John England | University of Alberta | Environmental Change in Arctic Canada: Ice Age to Present |
Murray Humphries | McGill University | Wildlife Biology and Traditional Food Security in Canada's Changing North |
Serge Payette | Université Laval | Ecology of Subarctic Forests |
Brent Wolfe | Wilfrid Laurier University | Present and Past Hydro-ecology of the Mackenzie Basin Deltas |