Each year, we hire field assistants in the summer to travel to remote research sites in the NWT and contribute to a diverse range of projects including lichen mapping, lichen recovery,  plant and tree responses to permafrost thaw, and changing fire regimes in northern systems. For the 2023 fiel...

Ana, Caitlyn, Emily and Evan have returned from a successful permafrost thaw monitoring trip. They spent two weeks frost probing across the southern portion of the NWT (Great Slave Lake area) and visited 75 sites in the region....