Research Technician Opportunity There is an 18-month research technician position available as part of the Global Water Futures Observatories program. Global Water Futures Observatories (GWFO) monitor and help support the development of solutions for the impending water crisis that is facing Canadia...

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...

FERG Master’s student Élise is this year’s winner of the Jack Middlemass Memorial Graduate Award in Northern Environmental Research. Read more about the award, Élise, and her research here....

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....