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Program Annual Scientific Meeting ᐊᕐᕌᒍᑕᒫᕐᓯᐅᑎᒥᒃ ᑲᑎᒪᓂᕐᒃ

2016 Réunion scientifique annuelle

5-9/12/2016, Winnipeg, MB Together in the study of a changing Arctic

ArcticNet is funded by the Government of Canada through the Networks of Centres of Excellence program, a joint initiative of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Industry Canada.

Understanding the transformation of the Arctic environment is one of the great challenges faced by Canadians, the Canadian government and the national and international scientific communities. ArcticNet brings together scientists and managers in the natural, human health and social sciences with their partners from Inuit organizations, northern communities, federal and provincial agencies and the private sector to study the impacts of climate change and modernization in the Canadian Arctic. Over 150 ArcticNet researchers and 1000 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research associates, technicians and other specialists from 34 Canadian universities and numerous federal and provincial departments and agencies collaborate on 41 research projects with more than 150 partner organizations from 14 countries.

ArcticNet is hosted at Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada.

ArcticNet Inc. Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon, Room 4081 1045, avenue de la Médecine, Université Laval Québec, QC Canada G1V 0A6 www.arcticnet.ulaval.ca Twitter: @ArcticNet TABLE OF CONTENTS

General Conference Program p. 4

Student Day Program p. 5

Plenary Program p. 7

Topical Session Program p. 9

Sponsors & Partners p. 28

Exhibitors p. 30

Advertisements p. 35

Breakfast Options p. 39

Conference Floor Plans p. 40 ASM2016 Conference Program General Program

GENERAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 5 DECEMBER 6 DECEMBER 7 DECEMBER 8 DECEMBER 9 DECEMBER

Student Day Student Day Plenary Session Plenary Session 08:30 Topical Sessions (Room: 1-2,11-13) (Room: 1-2,11-13) (Room: 1-2,11-13) (Room: 1-2,11-13)

10:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break

Student Day Plenary Session 10:30 Student Day Topical Sessions Topical Sessions (Room: 1-2,11-13) (Room: 1-2,11-13)

Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch 12:00 Meeting adjourns (Room: 2FGH) (Room: 2FGH) (Room: 2FGH) (Room: 2FGH)

ASM Opening Student Day 13:30 Session Topical Sessions Topical Sessions (Room: 1-2,11-13) (Room: 1-2,11-13)

15:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break

Student Day 15:30 Topical Sessions Topical Sessions Topical Sessions (Room: 1-2,11-13)

Women in Northern Welcome Reception Reception / Science Reception 17:00 / Poster Session 1 Poster Session 2 (Room: 2GH - 2nd (Room: 3-4,7-10) (Room: 3-4,7-10) Floor)

Winnipeg Art Gallery AIP Awards Banquet 19:30 'Evening at the Ceremony 19h30-22h00 WAG' (Concert Hall) Inuit Culture Night

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STUDENT DAY PROGRAM

MONDAY, 5 DECEMBER Room: 1-2,11-13 (Plenary)

08:30 ArcticNet Student Association Executive Committee Welcoming Remarks/Icebreaker

Dr. Ashlee Cunsolo, Dr. Tristan Pearce, 09:00 Plenary #1 – Making Research Matter (Panel Discussion) Kaitlin Breton-Honeyman, Jamie Snook

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 Dr. Ian Mauro Bridging the Gap: Communicating Academia to the Public

11:15 Shannon O'Hara and Carla Pamak Improving Communication with Community Stakeholders

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Dr. Tristan Pearce and Linnaea Jasiuk Community/Research Relationships in Arctic Research

14:15 Dr. Hugues Lantuit Effective Networking and Relationship Building in Academia

15:00 Coffee Break

Plenary #2 - Memoirs of a mid-career Arctic research manager: 15:30 Dr. Martin Fortier Did I really need that PhD?

16:15 Social and Networking Opportunity

19:00 Evening Social (The Pint)

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TUESDAY, 6 DECEMBER Room: 1-2,11-13 (Plenary)

Nancy Karetak-Lindell 09:00 Plenary #3 (President, Inuit Circumpolar Council – Canada)

Panel Discussion (Work/Life Balance)

The life of an Early-career Researcher/Parent

Wonder what it's like balancing family and an Arctic career? We Kaitlin Breton-Honeyman, are a diverse group of researchers who are navigating our way Dr. Mariane Marcoux, through dissertations and careers while adventuring through 09:20 Agata Durkalec, parenting. We work in a variety of fields, come from different Jennifer Provencher academic backgrounds, and research and / or live in all regions of and Dustin Whalen the Canadian Arctic. We don't have all the answers but we'll share candidly with you insights gained from our experiences as early- career researcher-parents.

10:00 Coffee Break and WAG/RBC Announcement at 10:15

Concurrent Sessions

1. Moving North: Adjusting to Life after Graduation

Sarah Beattie, Maha Ghazal, Peter Sinkins, Jullian MacLean, and Colleen Parker

You’ve researched the land, water and people of the North, and admired its beauty and (Room: 1-2,11-13) culture - and you LOVE it. But have you ever thought of moving up to the place that you’ve studied? Heading North after graduation may seem daunting (What will work be like? Will I have a social life?). Many young scientists and researchers do it every year. Come out to this workshop to learn about the joys and challenges of working and living in Canada’s 10:30 North, from a panel of young, diverse researchers.

2. Keeping your Data Safe: How to Organize and Protect your Data

Gabrielle Alix (Polar Data Catalogue) (Room: Presentation Theatre) Data management is an integral part of graduate studies, however few universities provide training to graduate students in order to teach the essentials of proper data management. In this workshop, we will present the importance of data management and discuss how to take good care of your data and information.

Mr. Sammy Kogvik (Gjoa Haven Master Corporel Ranger) Plenary #4: The History, Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge, 11:15 and Co-operation that Led to the Discovery of the HMS Terror Adrian Schimnowski (Arctic Research Foundation)

12:00 Lunch

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PLENARY PROGRAM

TUESDAY, 6 DECEMBER (13:30-15:00) Room: 1-2,11-13 (Plenary)

Chair: Leah Braithwaite Executive Director, ArcticNet

Leah Braithwaite 13:30 Welcome Address Executive Director, ArcticNet

Bernie Boucher 13:35 Opening Remarks Chair – ArcticNet Board of Directors

Natan Obed 13:40 President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami Opening Remarks Co-Chair – ArcticNet Board of Directors

Dirk Notz 13:50 Head – Sea Ice in the Earth System, Max-Planck- When is all that sea ice gone? Institut

Kevin Kablutsiak Director – Arctic Inspiration Prize 14:10 The Arctic Inspiration Prize and FOXY / SMASH Candice Lys Executive Director – FOXY / SMASH

Michael Byers Russian rockets and polynyas, environmental protection, Inuit 14:30 UBC CRC in Global Politics and International Law rights and Canadian foreign policy

Darlene Wight 14:50 Early Masters: Inuit Sculpture 1949-1955 Winnipeg Art Gallery – Curator of Inuit Art

WEDNESDAY, 7 DECEMBER (08:30-10:00) Room: 1-2,11-13 (Plenary)

Chair: Mylene Riva Institute for Health and Social Policy, and Department of Geography, McGill University

Leah Braithwaite 08:30 Opening Remarks Executive Director – ArcticNet

Sarah Kalhok Bourque The Northern Contaminants Program: 25 years of partnership in 08:35 Director – Northern Contaminants Program science and action

Trevor Bell Protecting Inuit health with evidence based decision-making – the 08:50 Memorial University - Dept. Geography legacy of the Muskrat Falls Hydro Project Agreement

Panel Discussion - ‘Vision for Sustainable Arctic Communities’ 09:05 Chair: Chris Furgal Members: Natan Obed, Jamie Snook, Sherilee Harper, Shelly Elverum

Garfield Mitchell Director – The W. Garfield Weston Foundation The W. Garfield Weston Foundation: Presentation of the Weston 09:40 Monique Bernier Family Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Northern Research Director – Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies

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THURSDAY, 8 DECEMBER (08:30-10:00) Room: 1-2,11-13 (Plenary)

Chair: David Barber Canada Research Chair in Arctic System Science Associate Dean (Research), Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources

Leah Braithwaite 08:30 Opening Remarks Executive Director, ArcticNet

Nancy Karetak-Lindell An international era of “big science”: Where are the opportunities 08:35 President – Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada for Inuit and Society?

Ian Mauro Fishing with our hands: Visualizing Commercial and Traditional 08:50 University of Winnipeg – Dept. Geography Activities in Pangnirtung’s Char Fishery

Stephan Schott Sustainable Development in the Arctic: Major Challenges and 09:05 Carleton University – School of Public Policy and Opportunities Administration

Panel Discussion – ‘Vision for Sustainable Arctic Development’ 09:20 Chair: Martin Fortier Members: Adamie Delisle Alaku, Tim Keane, Ashlee Cunsolo, Tristan Pearce FRIDAY, 9 DECEMBER (10:30-12:00) Room: 1-2,11-13 (Plenary)

Chair: Maribeth Murray Director – Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary

Leah Braithwaite 10:30 Opening Remarks Executive Director – ArcticNet

Jane Francis 10:35 The UK’s Polar Programme in the Arctic and Antarctica Director – British Antarctic Survey

Alain Leclair Polar Knowledge Canada: Collaborating for the Future - 10:50 Director – Science & Technology, Canada’s Polar Agency Polar Knowledge Canada

Panel Discussion – ‘Vision for Sustainable Arctic Science’ 11:05 Chair: Warwick Vincent Members: Peter Harrison, Lisa Loseto, Trevor Bell

Louis Fortier Canadian Arctic research at a cross-roads: towards a new 11:40 Scientific Director – ArcticNet roadmap

Leah Braithwaite 11:55 Closing Remarks Executive Director – ArcticNet

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TOPICAL SESSION PROGRAM

TUESDAY, 6 DECEMBER - 15:30 to 17:00

ARCTIC FISH AND FISHERIES Chair: Caroline Bouchard Room: Presentation Theatre

15:30 Stig Falk-Petersen Lipids for life: A case study of daubed shanny (Leptoclinus maculatus)

15:45 Nigel Hussey Tracking the impossible at depth: mark report satellite tags reveal a large-scale directed migration of Greenland sharks

16:00 Angela Young Movement of Arctic Char in Nunavut’s largest lake

16:15 Caroline Bouchard Climate warming enhances juvenile arctic cod recruitment in Canadian arctic seas

16:30 Jasmine Brewster Defining the Niches of Beaufort Coastal Fishes using Biotracers: Stable Isotopes, FattyAcids and Total Mercury

GLACIER CHANGES Chairs: Anna Crawford and Luke Copland Room: Pan Am

15:30 Achim Roth Ice Cap Surface Elevation Changes Derived from ICESat and TanDEM-X Elevation DATA: Example Devon Ice Cap

15:45 Colleen Mortimer Recent warming over Canada’s High Arctic Glaciers: glacier surface temperatures and albedo change for the Queen Elizabeth Islands (2000-2015)

16:00 Luke Copland Long-term glacier slowdown in the Canadian Arctic

16:15 Juliana Marson Modelling Greenland Icebergs: Evaluating their freshwater contribution to the North Atlantic

16:30 Laurent Mingo Radar Instrumentation and Methods for Long Term Glacier and Ice-Island Monitoring

16:45 Lorenz Meire Use of transect studies and moorings to assess seasonal productivity in a sub-Arctic fjord adjacent to the Greenland Ice Sheet

COMMUNICATION Chair: Megan Highet Room: Millenium

15:30 Talia Wells Un-Muzzling Science: Science Communication and Science-to-Policy in the Canadian Arctic

15:45 Zoe Martos Climate Change Knowledge Mobilization for Decision-Makers in Nunavut: Case Studies

16:00 Ashley Rudy Permafrost Comics: Bridging the gap between science and society

16:15 Megan Highet Through a Child's Eyes: HowVisual Media Can Be Used to Engage Northern Aboriginal Youth in Knowledge Exchange Activities for Community-Driven Health Research

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TUESDAY, 6 DECEMBER - 15:30 to 17:00 (CONTINUED)

OCEAN-SEA-ICE-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION Chair: Brian Butterworth Room: 2E

15:30 Eric Mortenson A model approach to carbon exchange in the air, sea, and ice of the marine Arctic

15:45 Brian Butterworth Air-sea exchange of carbon dioxide in the Antarctic marginal ice zone

16:00 Emma Dodd Towards a Combined Surface Temperature Dataset for the Arctic from the Along-Track Scanning Radiometers

16:15 Emma Mungall A novel source of oxygenated volatile organic compounds in the summer time marine Arctic boundary layer

16:30 Yuta Ando Short break of Polar night jet in early winter related with cooling over Siberia

16:45 Neil Bailey Determination of the Henry’s Law Constant of Carbon Dioxide at Freezing Temperatures

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY Chair: Bill Williams Room: 17

15:30 Juliana Marson Cascading off Davis Strait seen from NEMO model results

15:45 Kenneth Hughes High-spatial-resolution oceanography of the central Canadian Arctic Archipelago

16:00 Benjamin Scheifele Turbulent Dissipation Rates, Mixing, and Heat Fluxes in the Canadian Arctic from Glider-based Microstructure Measurements

16:15 Nathan Grivault Volume and freshwater exchange inside and outside of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

WEDNESDAY, 7 DECEMBER - 10:30 to 12:00

KITIKMEOT REGION 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE CHARS ERA - TERRESTRIAL SYSTEM Chairs: Kristina Brown and Donald McLennan Room: 1-2,11-13

10:30 Donald McLennan Application of Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring under the CAFF Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program: Designing and Implementing Terrestrial Monitoring to Establish the Canadian High Arctic Research Station as a Flagship Arctic Environmental Monitoring Site

10:45 Lisa-Marie Leclerc Dolphin and Union (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus x pearyi) caribou herd abundance and trends, Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut

11:00 Fabien Mavrot Is Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, a zoonotic bacterium and recent cause of mortality in muskoxen, new to the Arctic?

11:15 Milla Rautio First inventory of biodiversity and productivity of Cambridge Bay lakes, Victoria Island, High-Arctic Canada

11:30 Matthew Gilbert A field-based assessment of the temperature tolerance of migratory Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus)

11:45 Donald McLennan Integration of terrestrial and freshwater research and monitoring in the CHARS ERA

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WEDNESDAY, 7 DECEMBER - 10:30 to 12:00 (CONTINUED)

WELL-BEING, HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE Chair: Mylene Riva Room: Presentation Theatre

10:30 Gwen Healey Youth perspectives on sexually transmitted infections and sexual health in Northern Canada and implications for public health practice

10:45 Andrea Andersen Determinants of healthy aging in Labrador: Perspectives from older adults and seniors

11:00 Alexandra Sawatzky Inuit-identified pathways for good wellbeing: An exploration of the land’s role as a determinant and source of wellness in Nunatsiavut, Labrador

11:15 Jennifer Wakegijig Recruit and Retain - Making It Work: Addressing Recruitment and Retention Challenges in the Health Sector in Northern and Arctic Communities

11:30 Christina Hackett Going off, growing strong: Results from a mixed-methods program evaluation targetting at-risk Inuit youth

ARCTIC MARINE ECOSYSTEMS 1 Chair: Catherine Lalande Room: Pan Am

10:30 David Yurkowski A dynamical shift in intraguild predation increases inter-specific competition between near-top predators in a changing Arctic

10:45 Francis K. Wiese Why has the world not collapsed and what should we do to keep it that way?

11:00 Evan Edinger New field observations on distributions of cold-water corals and sponges in Baffin Bay and the Northern Labrador Sea

11:15 Dimitri Marine Protists in Emerging hotspots North of Baffin Bay Kalenitchenko

11:30 Catherine Lalande Spatial and temporal variability in phytoplankton and particulate matter export in the Beaufort Sea (2014-2015)

11:45 Alec Aitken Frobisher Bay: A Natural Laboratory for the Study of Environmental Change in Canadian Arctic Marine Habitats

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WEDNESDAY, 7 DECEMBER - 10:30 to 12:00 (CONTINUED)

ARCTIC LAKES, RIVERS AND ESTUARIES Chair: Michelle Kamula Room: Millenium

10:30 Michelle Kamula Patterns and Sources of Sediment and Particulate Organic Carbon in Lake Melville, Labrador: Inferences from 210Pb, 137Cs, and d13C

10:45 David Fortin Propagation of fluvial sediment pulses in a glacial-fed lake, Brooks Range,Alaska

11:00 Igor Lehnherr Coupled Terrestrial-Aquatic Climate Impacts on the Watershed of the High Arctic’s Great Lake (Lake Hazen, Nunavut)

11:15 Masoud Goharrokhi Evaluation of suspended sediment sampling techniques for use in sediment fingerprinting in the Nelson River and Hudson Bay

11:30 Philip Marsh Integrating high resolution field observations and modelling in order to improve our understanding of hydrological change

SEA ICE PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES 1 Chair: C.J. Mundy Room: 2E

10:30 Jørgen Berge New Ice-tethered observational platforms in the Arctic Ocean pack ice

10:45 Feiyue Wang Mesocosm-scale studies of sea ice properties and processes at the Sea-ice Environmental Research Facility (SERF): a five-year synopsis

11:00 Jack Landy Sea ice roughness: the key for predicting Arctic summer ice albedo

11:15 Nix Geilfus Estimates of ikaite export from sea ice to the underlying seawater in a sea ice–seawater mesocosm

11:30 Jeremy Whitehead Inorganic carbon variations in response to under ice algae blooms and growth

11:45 C.J. Mundy Sea ice nutrient measurements: the role of ice algal intracellular nutrients

CONTAMINANTS Chair: Jason Stow Room: Hall B

10:30 John Chételat Does growth rate influence mercury accumulation in Arctic freshwater fish? Evidence from muscle RNA:DNA ratios

10:45 Marlene Evans Investigations of fish health and contaminants in lakes and rivers in the NorthwestTerritories: case studies investigating community concerns

11:00 Kang Wang Mercury in the Marine Waters of the Canadian Arctic

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11:30 Adam Morris Relationships between organic contaminants and metabolomics profiles in muscle and liver of polar bears from two subpopulations in Hudson Bay, Canada

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WEDNESDAY, 7 DECEMBER - 10:30 to 12:00 (CONTINUED)

LITERACY AND EDUCATION Chair: Alexander McAuley Room: 17

10:30 Tess Miller Promising practices in the assessment of language and literacy in Inuit communities

10:45 Alexander McAuley Akuttujuuk: Catalyzing bilingual education in Inuit Nunangat via school, family and community leadership

11:00 Shelley Tulloch The Akuttujuuk framework for bilingual education in Inuit Nunangat

11:15 Nunia Qanatsiaq- Family and community leadership in bilingual education: A case study Anoee

11:30 Sandy Campbell A Community-Defined Digital Library for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region

11:45 Peter Schmidt ISAAFFIK Arctic Gateway Mikkelsen

WEDNESDAY, 7 DECEMBER - 13:30 to 15:00

KITIKMEOT REGION 2: INTRODUCTION TO THE CHARS ERA - MARINE SYSTEM Chairs: Brent Else and Oksana Schimnowski Room: 1-2,11-13

13:30 Bill Williams Adventures in a new Arctic frontier: Investigating the tidal-driven 'winter holes' and 'summer gardens' of the Kitikmeot Marine Region of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

13:45 Aurelie Delaforge Changes in the abundance and nucleic acid content of heterotrophic bacteria in the lower Northwest Passage (Canadian Arctic) during the winter to summer transition

14:00 Karley Campbell Seasonal dynamics of algal and bacterial communities in Arctic sea ice under variable snow cover

14:15 Nadja Steiner Modeling the physiological constraints of key Arctic marine species: A bottom up, field based approach (Helen Drost) to ecosystem modelling

14:30 Randy Scharien Characterization of sea ice type and ice melting state in the Kitikmeot Region using multi-frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

14:45 Richard Dewey Predicting Sea-Ice Conditions with a Local Thermodynamic Model Forced by Real-time Data from the Cambridge Bay Ocean Observatory

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WEDNESDAY, 7 DECEMBER - 13:30 to 15:00 (CONTINUED)

WATER AND FOOD Chair: Sherilee Harper Room: Presentation Theatre

13:30 Carlee Wright Household Stored Drinking Water in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut: Secondary Contamination and Potential Risk Factors for Acute Gastrointestinal Illness

13:45 Stephanie Masina Enteric pathogens in surface water in Iqaluit, Nunavut

14:00 Myriam Fillion Food security experiences in Nunavik: Towards a multivariate understanding of a gender-based approach to develop interventions and promote food security

14:15 Amy Caughey Serving Country Food Project: Increasing access to traditional food in government-funded facilities & programs in Nunavut

14:30 Chris Furgal What we don’t understand about food security in the Arctic: insights and future directions

ARCTIC MARINE ECOSYSTEMS 2 Chair: Blanche Saint-Béat Room: Pan Am

13:30 Laura Castro de la Role of Rivers and Storms Determining Arctic Productivity Guardia

13:45 Thibaud Dezutter Warming conditions and the match-mismatch between phytoplankton and zooplankton in the Beaufort Sea

14:00 Déborah Benkort Understanding the complex relationship between the environmental variability and the physiology of the Arctic krill Thysanoessa raschii and the Northern krill Meganyctiphanes norvegica

14:15 Alexandre Royer- Isotopic composition of sedimentary Fe as tracer of Arctic Ocean biogeochemical pathways Lavallée

14:30 Blanche Saint-Béat Unraveling the intricate dynamics of planktonic Arctic marine food webs

14:45 Joost Verhoeven Exploring the microbiome of two carnivorous sponge genera (Chondrocladia, Cladorhiza) from Baffin Bay

COASTAL PERMAFROST 1 Chairs: Dustin Whalen and Hugues Lantuit Room: Millenium

13:30 Matthew Asplin Synoptic Meteorological Drivers of Storm Surges in the Western Canadian Arctic

13:45 Ravi Darwin Sankar Spatio-Temporal Evaluation of Contemporary and Historic Shoreline Changes in response to the effects of Climate Variability along Southwestern Banks Island – A quantitative analysis of Vulnerability

14:00 Dustin Whalen The acceleration of change – how UAV technology is being used to better understand coastal permafrost landscapes in the Mackenzie-Beaufort Region, NWT

14:15 Maria Belke Brea First characterization of high Arctic snow physical properties and albedo, Ward Hunt Island (83° 4’ N, 74° 8’ W)

14:30 Philip Bonnaventure Comparison of the Influence of coastal proximity on ground thermal regimes at two HighArctic sites

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WEDNESDAY, 7 DECEMBER - 13:30 to 15:00 (CONTINUED)

SEA ICE PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES 2 Chairs: C.J. Mundy and Mar Fernandez-Mendez Room: 2E

13:30 Mar Fernández- Growth havens for Arctic algae: ridges and snow-ice interface Méndez

13:45 Virginie Galindo Pigment composition and photoprotection of Arctic sea ice algae during spring

14:00 Nicole Pogorzelec FTIR imaging analysis of cell content in sea-ice diatom taxa during a spring bloom in the lower Northwest Passage of the Canadian Arctic

14:15 Ashley Elliott UV-Protective Compounds in Sea Ice-Associated Algae in the Canadian Arctic

14:30 Hanna Maria Kauko The whole is greater than the sum of its parts: bio-optical feedbacks in a thinning Arctic icescape

14:45 Joannie Charette Taxonomic composition and photoprotection strategy of melt pond algae in the Canadian Arctic

COMMUNITY VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION 1 Chair: Peter Outridge Room: 17

13:30 Jolène Labbé Readiness for climate change adaptation in Nunavut, Canada

13:45 Peter Outridge Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic (AACA) – Perspectives from the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort (BCB) Regional Assessment

14:00 David Fawcett Operationalizing Longitudinal Approaches to Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment in the Arctic

14:15 Timothy Pasch, ArcticIDEA: Nunavut Broadband and Digital Entrepreneurialism David Bjerklie and Mark Trahant

14:30 Tristan Pearce Inuit Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), Subsistence Hunting and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Canadian Arctic

WEDNESDAY, 7 DECEMBER - 15:30 to 17:00

KITIKMEOT REGION 3: INTRODUCTION TO THE CHARS ERA - COMMUNITY- RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS Chairs: Oksana Schimnowski and Donald McLennan Room: 1-2,11-13

15:30 Matilde Tomaselli Enhancing Wildlife Research and Co-management in the Kitikmeot Region: a Participatory Study on Victoria Island Muskoxen

15:45 Susan Kutz Monitoring and managing muskox health for food security and ecosystem and socio-economic resilience: integrating traditional, local, and scientific knowledge:An ArcticNet Project

16:00 Mike Dempsey 5 Years of the Canadian Rangers Ocean Watch (CROW)

16:15 Matilde Tomaselli Exploring the Importance of Muskoxen: Perspectives from Ikaluktutiak, Victoria Island, Nunavut

16:30 Ryan Flagg Cambridge Bay’s Sub-sea Cabled Community Observatory: Partnerships, operations, community work, and future plans

16:45 Oksana Schimnowski The CHARS ERA as a social ecological system - what can POLAR do to advance useful community 17:15 and Donald McLennan research relationships?

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WEDNESDAY, 7 DECEMBER - 15:30 to 17:00 (CONTINUED)

METRICS AND METHODS FOR POPULATION HEALTH Chair: Ashlee Cunsolo Room: Presentation Theatre

15:30 Gwen Healey Applying indigenous analytical approaches to find answers to a public health question:A reflection on Unikkaqatigiiniq (storytelling) and Sananiq (crafting)

15:45 Alexandra Sawatzky Developing values-based environment and health metrics for surveillance with Inuit in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, Labrador

16:00 Mylene Riva and Marie-Claude Developing culturally relevant indicators of community conditions to be included in Lyonnais population health surveys in the Arctic

16:15 Manpreet Saini Participation, contextual relevance and impact: Developing an evaluation framework for Inuit health programs and a whiteboard video for health promotion

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16:45 Linnaea Jasiuk Inuit Women's Conceptualizations of, and Approaches to, Health in a Changing Climate

EDUCATION/COMMUNICATION/DATA MANAGEMENT Chair: Melanie O'Gorman Room: Pan Am

15:30 Geneviève Lalonde Examining Strategies to Better Represent Inuit Culture and Modes of Learning in Education: Case Study of Ulukhaktok, NWT

15:45 Melanie O'Gorman Understanding Educational Achievement in Inuit Nunangat: An Analysis of the Aboriginal Peoples Survey

16:00 Joel Heath The Arctic Sea Ice Educational Package: Culturally relevant curriculum for northern schools

16:15 Shirin Nuesslein Evaluating Contaminants Learning: the experience of the Nunavut Arctic College Environmental Technology Program’s wildlife, contaminants and health workshop

16:30 Brian Horton Building student opportunities into applied hydrology research in the Yukon River basin

16:45 Shannon Christoffersen Vossepoel Data Management Planning through the Data Lifecycle: A Guide for Polar Scientists

17:00 Gabrielle Alix The Polar Data Catalogue: Data and Information for Canada and the World

COASTAL PERMAFROST 2 Chairs: Dustin Whalen and Hugues Lantuit Room: Millenium

15:30 Lingxiao Wang Characterizing permafrost landscape features using object-based classification ofTerraSAR-X imagery

15:45 Justine-Lucille Predicting Occurrences of Retrogressive Thaw Slumps and their Implications on the Near Shore Carbon Ramage Budget Along the Yukon Coast, Canada (Hugues Lantuit)

16:00 Sarah Beattie An investigation into the impacts of permafrost slumping on the Thomsen River Watershed in Aulavik National Park

16:15 Samuel Gagnon Geomorphological and ecological interactions affecting permafrost thaw in the Narsajuaq river valley, Nunavik, Canada

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WEDNESDAY, 7 DECEMBER - 15:30 to 17:00 (CONTINUED)

BEAUFORT SEA ICE AND OCEAN REGIME 1 Chair: Alexandre Forest Room: 2E

15:30 Matthew Asplin Regression Analysis of Winter Sea Ice Drift and Synoptic Atmospheric Forcing in the Southern Beaufort Sea

15:45 Ed Ross Spatial Variability of Sea Ice Drafts in the Continental Margin of the Canadian Beaufort Sea from a Dense Array of Moored Upward Looking Sonar Instruments

16:00 Ryan Galley Replacement of Multiyear sea ice and Changes in the Open Water Season Duration in the Beaufort Sea Since 2004

16:15 Christian Haas Sea Ice Thickness Variability in the Beaufort Sea

16:30 David Babb Seasonal preconditioning and another ice free Beaufort Sea during September 2016

16:45 Sarah Zimmermann A 14 year oceanographic time series of the Beaufort Gyre Region of the Southern Canada Basin: results from Joint Ocean Ice Studies

COMMUNITY VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION 2 Chair: Rudy Riedlsperger Room: 17

15:30 Jamie Snook A 10 Year reflection on indigenous co-management implementation in Nunatsiavut.

15:45 Melissa Harris Barriers and Best Practices for Sustainable Housing in the Canadian Arctic

16:00 Rudy Riedlsperger Sustainable Housing in Northern Canada: Learning from Nunavik and Nunatsiavut

16:15 Alison Perrin Putting Arctic Research into Practice: Evidence-based Decision-Making in a Northern Context

16:30 Nathan Curry Total Resource Utilization Habitats for Northern Communities

16:45 Jennifer Fiebig Snowdrift simulation in wind tunnel testing as architectural design method for Arctic buildings

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THURSDAY, 8 DECEMBER - 10:30 to 12:00

HUDSON BAY 1 - OVERVIEW AND COMMUNITY Chairs: David Barber and Lauren Candlish Room: 1-2,11-13

10:30 David Barber An overview of Hudson Bay and the on going research

10:45 Joel Heath The Hudson Bay Consortium: Environmental Stewardship for the Greater Hudson Bay/ James Bay Region

11:00 Maryse Mahy Working Together to Collect Marine Baseline Data in Wager Bay, Ukkusiksalik National Park

11:15 Mishal Naseer Land-Use Planning in the Nunavik Marine Region with regard to the Hudson Bay Region

11:30 Steven Ferguson Hudson Bay: first we lose polar bears then seals?

11:45 Jonathan Andrews Climate change and sea ice: marine shipping access in Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait (1980 – 2014)

OIL IN THE ARCTIC 1 Chairs: Casey Hubert and Gary Stern Room: Presentation Theatre

10:30 Michael Byers Arctic Oil: Policy, Law, and International Cooperation 10:45

11:00 Dustin Isleifson An Overview of Microwave Remote Sensing Technologies for Detection of Oil in Sea Ice

11:15 Thomas Neusitzer Investigating the Complex Permittivity of Oil-Contaminated Sea Ice

11:30 Alexandre Forest The integrated Beaufort Observatory (iBO)

11:45 David Barber The Churchill Marine Observatory: A New Research Facility Dedicated to the Studies of Detection, Impact and Mitigation of Oil Spills in Ice-Covered Arctic Waters

INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATION Chair: Henry Burgess Room: Pan Am

10:30 Marina Villegas Spanish Polar Strategy: a window connecting both polar regions

10:45 Henry Burgess United Kingdom and Arctic Science

11:00 Jane Francis Arctic and Antarctic logistics with the British Antarctic Survey

11:15 Maia Olsen Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM): Monitoring and long-term research programme on ecosystems, climate change effects and feedbacks in the Arctic

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THURSDAY, 8 DECEMBER - 10:30 to 12:00 (CONTINUED)

COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH 1 Chair: Carie Hoover Room: Millenium

10:30 Kent Spiers Toward Best Practices in Arctic Social and Ecological Sustainability: A Critical Evaluation of Community-Based Monitoring Programs

10:45 Tim Soucie Two Years of Youth-Driven Arctic Research in Mittimatalik: What Can the Learning-by-Doing Approach Teach Us?

11:00 Lindsay Day Integrative approaches to working with Indigenous and Western knowledge in Northern Research: A survey assessment of the current state of practice

11:15 Nicolas Brunet Evaluating the effectiveness of wildlife research communication in Nunavut communities

11:30 Carie Hoover Regional Indicators for Marine Monitoring in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region

ARCTIC MARINE MAMMALS 1 Chair: Marci Trana Room: 2E

10:30 Cory Matthews Longitudinal stable isotope-based datasets reveal unexpectedly high individual variation in beluga life history and foraging ecology

10:45 Rowenna Gryba Refining behavioral inferences from satellite tagged spotted and bearded seals using dive and environmental variables

11:00 Marci Trana Higher blubber cortisol in threatened beluga whales of the Canadian Arctic

11:15 Claire Hornby Beluga whale habitat selection in the offshore Beaufort Sea during late-summer 2007-2009

11:30 Cortney Watt A shift in foraging behaviour of beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) from the threatened Cumberland Sound population may reflect a changing Arctic food web

11:45 Ellyn Davidson Distribution and habitat associations of two subpolar cetaceans, sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) and northern bottlenose whales (Hyperdoon ampullatus), in Baffin Bay-Davis Strait

ARCTIC TUNDRA AND VEGETATION 1 Chair: Jeffery Saarela Room: Hall B

10:30 Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe Temporal and spatial variability in berry productivity across the Canadian Arctic

10:45 Sandra Angers-Blondin Biotic constraints to tall shrub recruitment in the tundra

11:00 Jeffery Saarela Biodiversity of the Canadian Arctic Vascular Plant Flora: New Floristic Discoveries Represent Critical Baseline Biodiversity Data

11:15 Esther R. Frei Interacting effects of snowmelt timing and climate warming on Arctic tundra plants over the past two decades

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THURSDAY, 8 DECEMBER - 10:30 to 12:00 (CONTINUED)

ARCTIC INFRASTRUCTURES AND CLIMATE CHANGE Chair: Louis-Philippe Roy Room: 17

10:30 Heather Brooks Permafrost-Supported Linear Infrastructure Risk Analysis Software - Design and Goals

10:45 Xiangbing Kong Development of design tools for convection mitigation techniques to preserve permafrost under north transportation infrastructures

11:00 Armelle Decaulne Slope morphometry as an indicator of hazards and risks in southwestern Nunavik – case studies from Umiujaq and Lac à l’Eau-Claire, Nunavik

11:15 Fabrice Calmels Preparing the resilience to climate change of the Dempster Highway, YT, Canada

11:30 Louis-Philippe Roy Development of a Climate-Resilient Functional Plan for Dempster Highway

11:45 Heather Brooks Soil Bridging Effects within Permafrost and Cold Regions Infrastructure

THURSDAY, 8 DECEMBER - 13:30 to 15:00

HUDSON BAY 2 - SCIENCE Chair: Zou Zou Kuzyk Room: 1-2,11-13

13:30 Tricia Stadnyk Hudson Bay: Changing river discharge in northern Canada

13:45 Michelle Kamula A comparison of water mass composition and nutrient distribution in two coastal marine environments in Northwestern Hudson Bay: Chesterfield Inlet and Wager Bay (Ukkusiksalik National Park)

14:00 Kathleen Munson Hudson Bay watershed: recent increases in fish mercury concentrations from historically impounded reservoirs of northern Manitoba

14:15 Zou Zou Kuzyk Riverine organic matter entering Hudson Bay; can it inform us of change?

14:30 Celine Gueguen Sr and 87Sr/86Sr in the coastal corridor in Southeast Hudson Bay

14:45 Annie Eastwood Oceanographic Conditions under landfast Sea-Ice surrounding the Belcher Islands, Southeast Hudson Bay

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THURSDAY, 8 DECEMBER - 13:30 to 15:00 (CONTINUED)

OIL IN THE ARCTIC 2 Chairs: Casey Hubert and Gary Stern Room: Presentation Theatre

13:30 Bacterial diversity and the natural attenuation potential for hydrocarbons in the cold ocean Charles W. Greer 13:45 environments of Canada

14:00 Amy Noël Marine microbial hydrocarbon degradation in the Kitikmeot region: are the microbial responses and communities the same as elsewhere in the Arctic?

14:15 Leendert Vergeynst Microbes degrading hydrocarbons at low temperatures: Untangling microbial community assembly and succession

14:30 Casey Hubert & Gary Stern GENICE: Microbial Genomics for Oil Spill Preparedness In Canada’s Arctic Marine Environment

ARCTIC WILDLIFE 1 Chair: Sabrina Plante Room: Pan Am

13:30 Kevin Hawkshaw Does prey distribution influence nest site selection and success in an arctic, avian top predator?

13:45 Édouard Bélanger Space use and population dynamics of the declining Torngat Mountains caribou

14:00 Jamie Snook Transdisciplinary research of Torngat Mountains Caribou

14:15 Sabrina Plante The cumulative impacts of human infrastructures on summer habitat use of migratory caribou

14:30 Melissa Galicia Spatial differences in feeding habits of polar bears in Foxe Basin: possible shift in Arctic food web mediated by a new top predator

14:45 Luana Sciullo Long term trends in diet of female polar bears in western Hudson Bay

COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH 2 Chair: Eric Solomon Room: Millenium

13:30 Kimberly Howland The role of community based monitoring and citizen science in early detection of nonindigenous species in the Canadian Arctic

13:45 Eric Solomon and Shelly Addressing community research priorities through youth engagement and capacity building Elverum

14:00 Mercedes McLean Connecting Inuit Knowledge with sea-ice research to better understand conditions for sea-ice freeze-up and break-up in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut

14:15 Devin Waugh Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Beluga Whale (Delphinapterus leucas) in a Changing Climate in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR), NWT

14:30 Amy Amos and Janet Boxwell Research Priorities in the Gwich'in Settlement Area

14:45 Chanda Brietzke Springtime in the Mackenzie Delta: The sociocultural importance of muskrats to Gwich’in and Inuvialuit trappers

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THURSDAY, 8 DECEMBER - 13:30 to 15:00 (CONTINUED)

ARCTIC MARINE MAMMALS 2 Chair: Stephen Insley Room: 2E

13:30 Rajnish Sharma Toxoplasma gondii in beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) from Beaufort Sea (Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories)

13:45 Sarah Fortune Evidence of year-round feeding for bowhead whales in the Eastern Canadian Arctic

14:00 Stephen Insley Seasonal patterns in ocean ambient noise near Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories

14:15 Krista Kenyon Narwhal Habitat Selection within their Wintering Ground

14:30 Kyle Ritchie Delayed spring sea-ice break-up leads to a lower effective number of breeders in ringed seals

ARCTIC TUNDRA AND VEGETATION 2 Chair: Virginia Walker Room: Hall B

13:30 Virginia Walker What happens to boreal forest soil communities after fire?

13:45 Clara Morrissette-Boileau Simulated caribou browsing limits the effect of nutrient addition on the growth of Betula glandulosa, an expanding shrub species in Nunavik, Canada

14:00 Laurent Montagano Importance of exchanges between ecosystems in the functioning of food webs: a meta-analytic (Marie-Andrée Giroux) approach

14:15 Serguei Ponomarenko Observations on the Past Dynamics of Salix arctica Dwarf Shrub on Subxeric Sites – a Case (Donald McLellan) Study for Retrospecting Monitoring

PERMAFROST Chair: Philip Bonnaventure Room: 17

13:30 Julien Fouché A Pan-Canadian study of Optical Properties of Soil Dissolved Organic Matter in the Active Layer and Permafrost

13:45 Robert Way Spatial variability in permafrost conditions in Subarctic and Arctic Labrador

14:00 Grace Ma Monitoring permafrost dynamics and the recovery of vegetation cover in recently burned lichen heath bogs in the Greater Wapusk Ecosystem

14:15 Ashley Rudy Seasonal and multi-year surface displacements measured by DInSAR in a High Arctic permafrost environment

14:30 Julien Fouché Diurnal evolution of the temperature sensitivity of CO2 efflux in permafrost-affected soils under control and warm conditions

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THURSDAY, 8 DECEMBER - 15:30 to 17:00

HUDSON BAY 3 - MODELLING Chair: Jennifer Lukovich Room: 1-2,11-13

15:30 Nathalie Theriault Spatial and temporal variability of sea surface salinity from remote sensing in Hudson Bay

15:45 Photochemical and Microbial Degradation of Dissolved Organic Matter in Hudson Bay Sohidul Islam Estuarine Systems (Canada)

16:00 Matthew MacDonald Hudson Bay - Projected freshwater exports under future climate

16:15 Stéphanie Bleau How is Ouranos’ Northern Environment program (2014-2019) addressing climate change impacts and adaptation? Mid-term status and results

16:30 Farahnaz Fazel-Rastgar Atmospheric Circulation Responses to Sea Ice Decline on Hudson Bay

16:45 Natasha Ridenour Modelling freshwater dynamics in the Hudson Bay Complex using the ANHA4 configuration

17:00 Jennifer Lukovich On modeled sea ice dynamics in Hudson Bay

IMPACTS OF ARCTIC MINING Chair: Frank Tester Room: Presentation Theatre

15:30 Anteneh Belayneh Mining Economies, Mining Families: Extractive Industries and Business Development in the Canadian Sub-arctic

15:45 Jonathan Tollefson “We’ve spent more money on science than any project in the history of the world”: Hard rock mining and resource materiality in Bristol Bay, AK

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16:15 Frank Tester Beneath the Surface: Inuit miners at Rankin Inlet, 1957 - 1962 (movie) 16:30

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ARCTIC WILDLIFE 2 Chair: Fabien Mavrot Room: Pan Am

15:30 Jacqueline Verstege Living on the edge: what encourages lemmings to overwinter on the dens of Arctic foxes?

15:45 Changing Arctic fox and red fox population dynamics as lemming cycles dampen at the James Roth Arctic’s edge

16:00 Susan Kutz Muskox Health Ecology: A Global Overview of the Status, trends, threats and vulnerability of muskoxen in a changing Arctic

16:15 Amy Johnson The use of stable isotope analysis to determine temporal trends in polar bear (Ursus maritimus) foraging ecology in relation to climate conditions

16:30 Daniel Gallant Is human activity driving the presence of red foxes in the Arctic? (Nicolas Lecompte)

16:45 Arnaud Mosnier One for all and all for one, or how correlated behaviours impact abundance estimates in wildlife surveys

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THURSDAY, 8 DECEMBER - 15:30 to 17:00 (CONTINUED)

PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH Chair: Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe Room: Millenium

15:30 Melanie Flynn Participatory scenario planning and climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability research in the Arctic

15:45 Stephan Schott Towards a Sustainable Fishery for Nunavummiut: The Integration of Traditional Knowledge with Western Science

16:00 Tiff-Annie Kenny The economics of diet and nutrition in the North: Results from a participatory food costing study in the Western Arctic

16:15 Sylvie Blangy and Monique Bernier Responsible research: addressing community concerns in a holistic approach. Building bridges between academics for improving the wellbeing of Inuit communities

16:30 José Gérin-Lajoie Community empowerment through Youth training: a collaborative biomonitoring of the George River water quality

16:45 Kristeen McTavish Public Participation in a Social Planning approach to Community Food Security: Case Study of the Community-Led Food Assessment Process in Nunatsiavut and Nunavut

BEAUFORT SEA ICE AND OCEAN REGIME 2 Chair: Alexandre Forest Room: 2E

15:30 Christiane Observations and numerical modelling reveal recent seasonal and inter-annual patterns in the Dufresne oceanography of the eastern Beaufort Sea (Canadian Arctic)

15:45 Sergei Kirillov Upwelling of Atlantic water along the Canadian Beaufort sea continental slope: favorable atmospheric conditions and seasonal and interannual variations

16:00 Jacoba Mol The exchange of inorganic carbon on the Canadian Beaufort Shelf

16:15 Igor Dmitrenko Wind-forced water dynamics over the eastern Beaufort Sea continental slope

16:30 Edward King A belt of seabed erosion along the Beaufort Sea margin governed by Holocene evolution of the Beaufort shelf-break Jet: geological evidence, current measurements and initial oceanographic modelling

16:45 Alexandre Forest Fall upwelling events in the Canadian Beaufort Sea: atmospheric drivers, shelf-slope circulation and sediment resuspension

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THURSDAY, 8 DECEMBER - 15:30 to 17:00 (CONTINUED)

ARCTIC TUNDRA AND VEGETATION 3 Chair: Ross Brown Room: Hall B

15:30 Neal Scott Impacts of enhanced temperature and snow deposition for seven years on vegetation (Sean Arruda) cover, phenology, and CO2 exchange in the Canadian High Arctic

15:45 Isabelle Lussier Impact of the recent increase in shrub cover on abundance and productivity of berries at Umiujaq (Nuvavik)

16:00 Ross Brown Changing Arctic terrestrial snow cover: an update of current understanding

IAC INUIT ARCTIC RESEARCH LEGACY WORKSHOP Chair: Andrew Dunford Room: 17

Michael Barrett Kativik Regional Government

John Cheechoo Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

Andrew Dunford Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.

Pitseolaq Moss-Davies Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada 15:30 Inuit Advisory Committee Inuit Arctic Research Legacy Workshop 17:00 Shannon O’Hara Inuvialuit Regional Corporation

Carla Pamak Nunatsiavut Government

Kendra Tagoona Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

Rodd Laing Nunatsiavut Government

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FRIDAY, 9 DECEMBER - 08:30 to 10:00

CLIMATE Chair: Patrick Grenier Room: Presentation Theatre

08:30 Patrick Grenier Challenges in developing climate scenarios that meet Canadian Arctic user needs

08:45 Maryam Takhsha CRCM5 dynamical downscaling over the CORDEX Arctic domain with empirical correction of CGCM- simulated sea-surface conditions

09:00 Patricia Wells Extending the weather record for Northern Ellesmere Island: Notes from the second Peary expedition to reach the North Pole, 1905-06

09:15 Emilia Paula Evaluation of CORDEX-Arctic daily precipitation and temperature-based climate indices over Canadian Diaconescu Arctic land areas

ARCTIC WILDLIFE 3 Chair: Michael English Room: Pan Am

08:30 Cynthia Resendiz Heterogeneous long-term effects of a changing environment on the reproductive success of greater snow geese

08:45 Emily Jenkins and Lasarusie Needs for analyzing food safety risks for toxoplasmosis in wildlife harvested in Canada’s Tukai North

09:00 Sean Perry & Molly Ingemney A comparison of fluctuating asymmetry using WhiskerPrint software as a marker of environmental stress in captive-born polar bears versus wild polar bears of the Western Hudson Bay population

09:15 Michael English Shifting home ranges of the Bathurst Caribou herd

09:30 Malik Awan Monitoring wolverines – non-invasive and community-based initiative

09:45 Lynda Orman Wildlife Research and Monitoring in Nunavut

HYDROLOGY Chair: Pieter Aukes Room: Millenium

08:30 Dan Hughes Detecting spatial variation in hydrology and carbon export across a lake-rich thermokarst landscape (Old Crow Flats, Yukon, Canada)

08:45 Ally Toure Distributed Snow Simulations for Quantification of Snow Accumulation Across an Arctic Shrub-tundra Landscape

09:00 Pieter Aukes Dissolved Organic Matter, Disinfection Demand, and Northern Drinking Water

09:15 Paul Dainard Cycling of Dissolved Organic Matter in Permafrost and Glacial Melt Water Impacted Freshwater Systems of the Canadian Arctic

09:30 Gabriel Chiasson-Poirier Flow paths and water sources during the thaw period of a hillslope underlain by permafrost, Apex River watershed, Iqaluit, NU

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FRIDAY, 9 DECEMBER - 08:30 to 10:00 (CONTINUED)

MONITORING AND MODELLING ICE ON THE OCEAN Chair: Anna Crawford Room: 2E

08:30 Abigail Dalton Monitoring iceberg movement in Baffin Bay

08:45 Anna Crawford High-precision surveying of drifting icebergs and ice islands

09:00 Nicholaus Zilinski A Low-Cost, Modular Ice Mass Balance Buoy Design for Environmental Monitoring and Sea Ice Physics

09:15 Jiacheng Zheng Snow thickness estimation on first-year sea ice using microwave and optical remote sensing with melt modelling

09:30 Xianmin Hu Simulated Sea Ice Growth in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago Region: Round II

09:45 John Mortensen Ocean-glacier interaction for melting of Greenland glaciers

ARCTIC NAVIGATION AND SAFETY Chair: James Parsons Room: 2F

08:30 Natalie Carter Infusing northern voices in the Northern Marine Transportation Corridors

08:45 James Parsons Application of a Formal Safety Assessment in Arctic Maritime Transportation

09:00 David Driscoll (Rebecca Van Climate change is associated with increasing rates of unintentional injury in Alaska: evidence Wyck) and implications

09:15 Dylan Clark Vulnerability to unintentional injuries associated with land-use activities and search and rescue in Nunavut, Canada

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SPONSORS

PLATINUM

THE W. GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION

The W. Garfield Weston Foundation is a private Canadian family foundation established in the 1950’s. It directs the majority of its funds to projects in the fields of land conservation, education, neuroscience and science in Canada’s North. Since 2007, the Foundation has committed more than $25 million to charitable organizations and leading scientists to advance northern science and engage Canadians to learn more about issues facing our fragile North.

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PRINCIPAL PARTNERS

INDIGENOUS AND NORTHERN AFFAIRS CANADA - NORTHERN CONTAMINANTS PROGRAM / AFFAIRES AUTOCHTONES ET DU NORD CANADA - PROGRAMME DE LUTTE CONTRE LES CONTAMINANTS DANS LE NORD

The Northern Contaminants Program (NCP) has been addressing the issue of contaminants in the Arctic for over twenty years. Results of NCP monitoring, research and human health studies are used to support national and global actions on contaminants. The NCP's long-term goal is to reduce and where possible eliminate contaminants in the environment and traditional/country foods while providing Northerners with the information they need to make informed dietary choices.

SENTINELLE NORD / SENTINEL NORTH

Building on Université Laval’s leading capacity in Arctic sciences, optics/ photonics, microbiology, and human health, Sentinel North fosters transdisciplinary research and the deployment of state-of-the-art technologies and intervention strategies in the pursuit of sustainable health and development in the circumpolar North. The unique program offers a world-class transdisciplinary training environment for the next generation of Arctic experts. Sentinelle Nord

POLAR KNOWLEDGE CANADA / SAVOIR POLAIRE CANADA

Government of Canada agency with a mandate to advance Canada’s knowledge of the Arctic and strengthen Canadian leadership in polar science and technology. Comprises a pan-northern science and technology program, a knowledge dissemination and coordination function, and will operate the Canadian High Arctic Research Station campus in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut in 2017.

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EXHIBITORS

OCEAN NETWORKS CANADA

Ocean Networks Canada, a University of Victoria initiative, is an international facility that manages the world’s most advanced cabled ocean observatories off the west coast of British Columbia and in the Arctic for the advancement of science and the benefit of Canada.

THE ARCTIC INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA

The Arctic Institute of North America was created by an Act of Parliament in 1945. Our mandate is to advance the study of the North American and circumpolar Arctic through the natural and social sciences, arts and humanities and to acquire, preserve and disseminate information on physical, environmental and social conditions in the North.

YUKON RESEARCH CENTRE

Yukon Research Centre (YRC) is solving northern problems with northern expertise. Our in-house experts and partnerships across the circumpolar north are focused on issues related to alternative energy, biodiversity monitoring, climate change, food security, mine water decontamination, and cold climate housing. Through partnership we will answer your research questions and meet your innovation needs.

ROMOR

ROMOR a supplier of the latest in oceanographic instrumentation and equipment for over 30 years. ROMOR has supplied the latest in instrumentation including ADCP’s, flotation & in situ-profilers suitable for use in the arctic climate. ROMOR with its extensive network of leading manufacturers and has provided many institutions with the tools required to conduct research in this harsh environment.

HOSKIN SCIENTIFIC LIMITED

Hoskin Scientific is a Canadian environmental monitoring instrumentation distributor since 1946 with offices in Vancouver, Burlington, Edmonton and Montreal. We carry an extensive range of products with major emphasis in the following areas: Water Quality, Limnology, Hydrology, Meteorology, Agronomy, Soil Science and Snow Science. We provide sales and service to our clients along with turn-key solutions to meet your environmental application needs. Please stop by our booth for a brochure or visit our website (www.hoskin.ca) for more information.

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RBR LTD.

We create instruments to measure the blue planet. From the ocean abyss to the polar ice cap, our sensors track water parameters – temperature, depth, salinity, dissolved gases, pH, and many others. All RBR instruments employ our configurable platform, providing valuable deployment data. Located in Ottawa, Canada, RBR serves customers worldwide.

INSTITUT NORDIQUE DU QUÉBEC The Institut nordique du Québec (INQ) brings together Quebec’s leading researchers to crystallize the latest research findings and expertise in order to provide governments and northern communities the knowledge and know-how they need for the sustainable development of Northern Quebec and the Canadian Arctic. The INQ’s founding partners are Université Laval, Institut national de recherche scientifique (INRS), and McGill University.

ATS SERVICES LTD

ATS Services Ltd, as a leading provider meteorological services across the Arctic, employs an extensive network of aviation weather observer/ communicators, aerological observers, and meteorological instructors. ATS also specializes in meteorological instrumentation by partnering with several world-class sensor manufacturers allowing ATS to offer meteorological solutions ranging from basic monitoring to fundamental research.

CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY /AGENCE SPATIALE CANADIENNE

Since its creation in 1989, the Canadian Space Agency has been driving Canada’s use and exploration of space; developing space assets, applications and services; and enabling space capacity while meeting the nation’s strategic priorities and growing need for scientific knowledge, innovation and information.

POLAR KNOWLEDGE CANADA

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CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING

Arctic Science (www.nrcresearchpress.com/as) is an open-access, peer- reviewed journal. An interdisciplinary journal, Arctic Science, publishes original peer-reviewed research from all areas of natural science and applied science & engineering related to northern Polar Regions. The focus on basic and applied science includes the traditional knowledge and observations of the indigenous peoples of the region as well as cutting-edge developments An NRC Research Press OPEN ACCESS Journal in biological, chemical, physical and engineering science in all northern environments. Reports on interdisciplinary research are encouraged. Special issues and sections dealing with important issues in northern polar science are also considered.

THE NUNAVUT CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE

The Government of Nunavut Climate Change Secretariat mobilizes resources that enable Nunavummiut to take leadership on climate change issues. The Secretariat addresses climate change adaptation and mitigation in Nunavut through initiatives and programs that respond to local needs. Our vision is a Nunavut that can overcome and benefit from climate change.

JASCO APPLIED SCIENCES

JASCO Applied Sciences is a leader in the science of underwater sound and its effects on marine life. We support all stages of environmental assessments of underwater sound for the oil and gas, renewable energy, marine construction, shipping and defence sectors. JASCO designs and manufactures state-of-the-art acoustic data acquisition systems.

CAMPBELL SCIENTIFIC (CANADA) CORP.

Campbell Scientific (Canada) Corp.’s extensive provision of meteorological stations in the Arctic has made us a specialist in rugged, robust systems that can last through the polar night. Our dataloggers feature wide operating ranges and dependable stand-alone operation. Snow parameters that can be measured include snow depth, precipitation, and snow water equivalent (SWE).

KONGSBERG MARITIME

Kongsberg Maritime is an international technology company that delivers advanced, reliable solutions for extreme conditions. Kongsberg products include Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) as well as systems and sensors for: fisheries research, seabed surveys, subsea imaging, surveillance, simulation, and commercial fishing.

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STUDENTS ON ICE

Students on Ice is an award-winning organization offering unique educational expeditions to the Antarctic and the Arctic. Our mandate is to educate the world’s youth about the importance of the Polar Regions, support their continued growth and inspire and catalyze initiatives that contribute to global sustainability.

POLAR CONTINENTAL SHELF PROGRAM (PCSP)

PCSP coordinates logistics for scientists working in Canada’s North. PCSP provides safe and efficient services including coordination of air transportation to and from field camps; equipment; fuel; accommodations and working space in Resolute, Nunavut; and a communications network linking PCSP with fly camps.

EEYOU MARINE REGION ENTITIES

In February 2012, the Eeyou Marine Region Land Claims Agreement (EMRLCA) came into force. Under this agreement, the following three entities are responsible for various aspects of its implementation: Eeyou Marine Region Wildlife Board (EMRWB), Eeyou Marine Region Planning Commission (EMRPC), and Eeyou Marine Region Impact Review Board (EMRIRB).

CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC SUBMERSIBLE FACILITY

The Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility operates the Remotely Operated Platform for Ocean Sciences (ROPOS). ROPOS is known as the world’s most capable scientific submersible for its versatility, efficiency, and operators; from deep-sea hydrothermal vent exploration to the deployment and maintenance of ocean observatories. ROPOS has 30 years of global collaboration with thousands of ocean scientists, engineers, and students.

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CANADIAN NETWORK OF NORTHERN RESEARCH OPERATORS

The Canadian Network of Northern Research Operators (CNNRO) is a partnership of research facilities that provides specialized technical services to academic, government, community, private and international scientific research. The CNNRO’s facilities provide the know-how and infrastructure that make research possible in our nation’s Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.

INUIT TAPIRIIT KANATAMI

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami is the national voice of 60,000 Canadian Inuit living predominantly in the Arctic regions of Nunavut, Nunavik (Northern Quebec), Nunatsiavut (Northern Labrador) and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region of the Northwest Territories. ITK represents the interests of Inuit on a wide variety of issues at the national level.

DASCO EQUIPMENT INC.

For over 30 years DASCO Equipment Inc. has operated as a Manufacturer’s

Representative and Authorized Distributor in Canada of Oceanographic Instrumentation and Underwater Equipment. Our business is the sales and support of this equipment. We also maintain a large pool of rental equipment, including: Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers & deployment platforms, EQUIPMENT INC. various sonar systems, GPS; also ROV/ASV packages.

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NORTHERN CONTAMINANTS PROGRAM

A proud partner of the 2016 ArcticNet Annual Science Meeting

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