Mercury can harm marine ecosystem health in the Arctic. Changes in the climate and human activities may have affected how mercury moves in the environment and accumulates in...

The Cape Bounty Arctic Watershed Observatory (CBAWO) utilizes two adjacent, geologically similar watersheds, West and East, which are currently undergoing climate-driven...

The Cambridge Bay wastewater system is comprised of a wastewater lagoon, formerly a series of natural lakes, which perform primary treatment, and is discharged once a year...

Samples/data collected by joint University-community monitor team during on the land camps in 2018-2020. Data Collection: a. Fish (15-20 individuals/species, up to 4 food fish...

The research chair objectives are to: 1) Contribute to biomonitoring of environmental contaminants in local foods and northern populations; 2) Study the effects of contaminants...

Inuit are exposed to a wide range of environmental contaminants through their traditional diet, which includes significant amounts of fish and sea mammals. Conversely, these...

The project started in May 2014 and built on previous work in Barrow Strait near Resolute in 2011 and 2012 and became a “core monitoring” project last year. Seawater samples for...

Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) were sampled in summer months by members of the Tuktoyaktuk HTO and other hunters from 1981-2017. Sex and length were recorded, and teeth...

Unfiltered aqueous total and methyl mercury concentrations were measured from water collection on board the NGCC/CCGS Amundsen at stations within the Beaufort Sea, Amundsen...

The long-term objective of our research program is to better understand how Inuit processes contaminants so that dietary exposure assessments and linkages to adverse health...

To obtain the data, water samples of vertical profiles were firstly collected from the Rosette onboard the CCGS Amundsen, and then analyzed with instruments both onboard and in...

The hunters from five communities participating in the EHBN (Sanikiluaq, Kuujjuaraapik, Inukjuak, Umiujaq, Chisasibi) are sampling coastal bioindicator species (blue mussel, sea...

Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) were sampled each summer by members of the Sanikiluaq HTO and other hunters from 1994-2016. Sex and length were recorded, and teeth were...

Despite a decreasing temporal trend over the last decades, methylmercury (MeHg) exposure in the Inuit population of Nunavik is still among the highest in the world. Traditional...

Methodology: Sampling of seals and lower food web organisms (zooplankton, jellyfish, mussels, scallops) in each community is done by local harvesters and coordinated by the...

All participants of the NCDS seen at the 5-year or the 11-year follow-ups are eligible for the proposed work. There is no data collection or field work related to the current...

Study lakes and ponds were sampled for water chemistry, including dissolved organic carbon (DOC), total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), chlorophyll a (Chla), anions,...

A study was designed to determine possible mercury contaminant risk, as well as the nutrient and sociocultural benefits of fish consumption. Study participants were sixty-seven...

A study was designed to determine possible mercury contaminant risk, as well as the nutrient and sociocultural benefits of fish consumption. Study participants were sixty-seven...

Select ice core samples representing a north-south gradient across the predominately Eastern Canadian Arctic were analyzed for total Hg, methyl Hg and Hg isotope ratios. The ice...