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Exposure to food chain contaminants in Nunavik: evaluating spatial and time t...
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... -
Littoral Chair - Sentinel North Partnership Research Chair in Ecosystem Appro...
The Littoral Chair, or Sentinel North Partnership Research Chair in Ecosystem Approaches to Health, was created in July 2019 and launched in February 2020 as a continuation of... -
Long-term monitoring of trace metals and persistent organic pollutants in lak...
This project has been monitoring contaminants in lake trout from Lake Laberge and Kusawa Lake in the Yukon, since 1993, and annually since 2001. In the fall of 2018 and early... -
2019-2020 Temporal and Spatial Trends of Legacy and Emerging Organic and Meta...
The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is the top predator of the arctic marine ecosystem and food web. Starting in 2007 and ongoing into the 2019-2020 fiscal year, on a biennial... -
Long-term trends in contaminants in freshwater fish (burbot, Lota lota) from ...
Fish (burbot, Lota lota) have been collected by community members since 1985, with annual collections commencing in 1999 to 2017-19, and analysed for contaminants. Mercury was... -
Mercury and other elements in landlocked char from East and West Lake, Cape B...
The Cape Bounty Arctic Watershed Observatory (CBAWO) utilizes two adjacent, geologically similar watersheds, West and East, which are currently undergoing climate-driven... -
Assessing Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Canadian Arctic Air and Wat...
We collected air, water, sediment samples in the summer of 2019 from on board the CCGS Amundsen in the central and eastern Canadian Archipelago. We also collected air and water... -
Microplastics Contamination in Sediment, Water, Snow/Ice and Fish of the Cana...
Microplastics (MPs) contaminate the oceans from the poles to the equators and from the sea surface to the deep sea. In addition, MPs have been recorded in freshwater systems,... -
Contaminant and Biological Data on Landlocked Arctic Char
We set out to examine possible links between climate warming and increases in mercury concentrations ([Hg]) in landlocked Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) in the High Arctic.... -
Temporal trends of mercury and halogenated organic compounds (legacy and emer...
To continue to maintain some of the longest datasets for contaminants in beluga whales collected in partnership with northern communities hunting beluga whales from three... -
Contaminants in Traditional Foods of the Na-Cho Nyäk Dun First Nation
The Na-Cho Nyäk Dun (NND) First Nation is concerned about the levels of contaminants in their traditional foods. This project will measure the contaminant levels in moose and... -
Yukon Contaminants Database: Long-term Monitoring of Contaminant Levels in Yu...
For many years levels of contaminants were monitored in fishes, birds, mammals and plants of Yukon. A range of metals and organochlorines, including arsenic, cadmium, mercury,... -
Spatial and long-term trends in persistent organic contaminants and metals in...
Our study consists of measuring mercury, other metals, and persistent organic pollutants in lake trout and burbot from three locations in two regions of Great Slave Lake to... -
Passive Air Sampling Network for Organic Pollutants and Mercury
This project will measure pollutants, namely persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and mercury, in the air at 7 locations across Canada's North using passive air samplers (PASs).... -
NCP and IPY INCATPA - Atmospheric Organic Contaminants Measurements, Little F...
This project involves the measurement of organic contaminants in Arctic air. The measurement of amounts and types of contaminants involves collecting large volumes of air... -
NCP and IPY INCATPA - Atmospheric Organic Contaminants Measurements, Alert, N...
This project involves the measurement of organic contaminants in Arctic air and is part of a continuing monitoring program started in 1992. The measurement of amounts and types... -
Impact of climate change on the mobilization and bioaccumulation of persisten...
Legacy persistent organic pollutants (POPs) such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), hexachlorobenzene (HCB) and other emerging pollutants such as perfluoralkyl substances... -
Monitoring of contaminants in ringed seals from the Canadian Arctic and Labrador
Ringed seals (Pusa hispida) samples are collected in the context of a community-based monitoring program, in the communities of Arviat, Resolute, Sachs Harbour, and Nain (for... -
Exposure to food chain contaminants in Nunavik: biomonitoring in adult and yo...
Inuit are exposed to a wide range of environmental contaminants through their traditional diet, which includes significant amounts of fish and sea mammals. During the past 25... -
Community based seawater monitoring for organic contaminants and mercury in t...
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...