End of the 2025 Field Season
That's a wrap on the 2025 field season! Check out the highlights below....
Welcoming Our New Lab Members
The Forest Ecology Research Group is excited to welcome several new members who are bringing their diverse expertise, energy and enthusiasm to our team. Check out their bios on our Current Lab Members page!...
Mackenzie Mihorean Presented at the 2025 Poplar + Willow Council of Canada Conference
FERG student Mackenzie Mihorean presented a plenary talk at the 2025 Poplar + Willow Council of Canada Conference on her recently published paper. Check out the presentation description below! Description: Across the boreal biome, temperatures are increasing 3-4 times faster than the glob...
Edmonton CityNews: Who bears responsibility to prevent wildfire disasters: government or individuals?
That's a wrap on the 2025 field season! Check out the highlights below....
New York Times: Parts of Canada’s Boreal Forest Are Burning Faster Than They Can Regrow
The New York Times joined Dr. Baltzer and the Forest Ecology Research Group in the Northwest Territories during the 2024 field research campaign to understand the aftermath of the record-breaking 2023 fire season. The article highlights how repeated wildfires are reshaping boreal forests, disrupting...
Nia Perron successfully defends PhD thesis
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 summer 2024 fieldwork!
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...
Research Technician Opportunity
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...
Frost probing campaign 2023
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...
July Field Campaign: Impacts of Permafrost Thaw
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...