That's a wrap on the 2025 field season! Check out the highlights below....

Congratulations to Nia Perron who successfully defended her PhD thesis “Variability in tree-water relations from tree-line to tree-line in Canada’s western boreal forest.” Nia was co-supervised by Dr. Jennifer Baltzer and Dr. Oliver Sonnentag. See some photos from Nia’s field...

FERG is hiring research assistants for two exciting research projects with fieldwork in the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. These research projects will investigate the impacts of disturbances such as wildfire, permafrost thaw and aspen running canker on the structure and function of the boreal...

There is a one-year research technician position available in the Forest Ecology Research Group. We are looking for a motivated, energetic individual to contribute to ongoing research projects in sub-arctic forests in Northern Ontario, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon. The technician would s...

Researchers from FERG recently completed a successful fall fieldwork campaign, measuring active layer depths at approximately 70 sites across the southern NWT. The active layer depth is the depth between the surface of the soil and the permafrost and is measured at its maximum in the fall. Trained r...

A team of FERG researchers completed a successful fieldwork campaign based in Inuvik in July, looking at tree, vegetation, soil and water properties adjacent to boreholes which record long-term permafrost data. The samples and measurements collected as part of this field campaign will be used to inv...

In June, a collaborative team of researchers from the Forest Ecology Research Group along with the Walker Lab (studying Disturbance and Ecosystem Ecology) and Mack Lab (Plant and Ecosystem Ecology) from Northern Arizona University carried out surveys of recovery and regeneration post-fire in areas b...

FERG PhD student Jocelyn Biro has been awarded the BVRC Irving Fox Memorial Scholarship for Natural and Cultural Resources Research and Management. Learn more about the award here. Want to learn more about Jocelyn and her research? Jocelyn is also a 2022 Wildlife Conservation Society Canada Weston F...

The Forest Ecology Research Group is seeking an ecologist to lead the expansion of a large, long-term collaborative project on measuring and forecasting warming-induced vegetation changes in northwestern Canada. This would be a 3-year position, starting as soon as possible, with fieldwork commencing...