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Geological, Environmental, and Earth Sciences

Minghan Xu

Carl Mitchell

Researches working in wilderness

Tracking impacts of permafrost thaw on incipient peatlands on the Hudson Bay coast in Polar Bear Provincial Park, Northern Ontario

Ontario’s north coast bordering Hudson Bay is the southern-most extent of continuous permafrost in Canada. This is also the northern edge of Canada’s most extensive peatland complex, the Hudson Bay Lowlands, where more than 30 billion tonnes of carbon have accumulated over the post-glacial period. This landscape is changing rapidly due to land emergence resulting […]

Frank Wania

Irena Creed

Igor Lehnherr

Trevor Porter

Sarah Finkelstein

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