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....

Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Standen who very successfully defended her PhD thesis “Changes in plant community composition, structure, and function in response to permafrost thaw”!...

Dr. Baltzer was interviewed on Quirks and Quarks about her recent publication on post-fire compositional change in boreal forests!...

Congratulations to Dr. Cory Wallace who recently defended his PhD thesis! Cory’s work focused on the drivers and implications of shrub expansion on the low arctic tundra. Cory’s next step is a postdoctoral fellowship at McMaster University focused on ecohydrological feedbacks of land cover chang...

Alexis Jorgensen successfully defended her MSc thesis which focused on the recovery of wildlife forage following wildfire in boreal forests of the Northwest Territories. Amazing job, Alexis!...

Katherine Standen published her first PhD thesis paper! The focus of this work is on the role of permafrost thaw on plant community composition and function in a boreal peatland undergoing rapid permafrost thaw. Congratulations, Katherine!...

Dr. Alfaro Sánchez received funding to support the research project ‘Plasticity of dominant boreal conifers to warming temperatures and thawing permafrost.’ The British Ecological Society award will allow her to address physiological mechanisms of tree growth responses to climate warming in the...

Katie Black spent two summers measuring sap flow and various other plant traits in green alder, a tall shrub species that is encroaching on open tundra due to climate warming. She was interested in drivers of shrub water use and it turns out permafrost thaw may play a pretty important role. Details ...

We started mapping 10ha of boreal forest in 2012. More than 40,000 stems and a plot recensus later, the first papers are coming out of this work and showing how important forest demographic processes are in tehse permafrost peatland systems. Check out Dearborn et al. 2021 and Dearborn and Baltzer 20...

Kristen’s PhD research is focused on community-based partnerships and community-driven questions surrounding the impacts that change in land cover will have on water quality for drinking water in the boreal forest region of the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada. These awards will support her res...