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...

Caitlyn is excited to have been awarded NSERC CGS-D to support her PhD research for the next 3 years. With this funding Caitlyn plans to study the response of boreal trees to permafrost thaw and their ability to capitalize on novel nutrient released from thaw processes in the Northwest Territories. ...