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2023-04-25
SSHRC CG awarded 2023: Mine legacies are scattered across Canadian and Australian landscapes in the form of million-to-billion dollar public liabilities, land contamination and degradation, social disruption, and alienation of Indigenous people from their traditional lands. In the northern...
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Transportation Infrastructure Decision Flexibility in Response to Climate Change and Demand Uncertainties: The Mackenzie Valley Highway in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
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Li, Huanan, Kim, Amy M., Jin, Jianjing
Barge transport operations on the Mackenzie River, a major transportation corridor in the Northwest Territories, are impacted by multiple sources of uncertainties. In particular, the impacts of climate change on this important corridor have led to summer shipping seasons that are growing more...
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Limnology of a Large Northern Lake (Lhù’ààn Mânʼ [Kluane Lake], Yukon) in an Era of Reconciliation and Rapid Climate Change
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Almost 60% of Canada’s freshwater drains North, where air temperatures are increasing at twice the global rate. Despite the exposure of northern lakes to higher rates of change and their ecological, hydrological, and cultural importance, baseline knowledge and monitoring of their water properties...
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Fall 2021
Cryptotephra research is one of the fastest growing subfields of tephrochronology. Here the extraction, processing, and analytical techniques required for cryptotephra studies are reviewed and assessed in detail. A workflow is suggested depending on the site’s characteristics to improve the...
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2021-08-28
Fine china objects (plates, cups and saucers, bells, mugs, thimbles) are all popular items in the souvenir trade. Some souvenir stores have china objects decorated with themes local to their region. This cup and saucer were made and decorated in England, but decorated for the Yukon tourist...
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09/30/2021
SSRHC IG awarded 2022: "Meaning of work" refers to how individuals make sense of paid work and their working selves in relation to the changing institutional facts of work and the broader social worlds in which they experience work. Work-Life aims to advance understanding of the intersecting ways...
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The Late Holocene White River Ash East Eruption and Pre-contact Culture Change in Northwest North America
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The White River Ash East eruption of A.D. 846-848 blanketed portions of Subarctic Yukon and Northwest Territories, Canada in volcanic ash. This dissertation examines impacts of the eruption on pre-contact hunter-gatherer social relationships. The main bodies of data on which interpretations are...
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Incorporating the impacts of climate change in transportation infrastructure decision models.
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Historically an important transportation corridor in the Northwest Territories, climate change has shortened the duration of the Mackenzie River’s navigational season. Communities rely increasingly on airlift as the growing volatility affects barging operations, leading to higher overall freight...
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2020-05-17
Ohi, Sabrena Jahan, Kim, Amy M.
This paper explores the application of count models to represent the relationship between flight disruptions and weather. Throughout the world, flights are regularly disrupted by delays at airports and in the terminal airspace, and less frequently by diversions and cancelations. Many delay...
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Fall 2020
Indigenous peoples in northern Canada are already experiencing significant climate change impacts. Young Indigenous people will inherit serious climate effects that threaten their physical and mental health, as well as ancestral traditions. It is these same young people that live in communities...