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The Canadian High Arctic Research Station - A 12-Month-a-Year Partner for Science Cooperation

DONALD McLennan, Polar Knowledge Canada, coenosis@hotmail.ca (Presenter)
Adam Houben, Polar Knowledge Canada, adam.houben@polar.gc.ca
Ioan Wagner, Polar Knowledge Canada, johann.wagner@polar.gc.ca

The Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS) is within a new government agency called Polar Knowledge Canada (POLAR), and is located in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Bay). CHARS is the largest research facility in the Canadian Arctic, featuring the Main Research Building and the Field and Maintenance Building to be open by summer 2018, and free, comfortable accommodation in two adjacent triplexes for up to 48 researchers that is open now. The CHARS Experimental and Reference Area (CHARS ERA) is a multi-scalar area around the Station where baseline studies to support research in terrestrial, freshwater and coastal-marine ecosystems are underway. Experimental sites within the ERA range from a paired-watershed Intensive Monitoring Area (IMA) adjacent to the station where instrumented, long-term hypothesis-based monitoring experiments are being initiated, to linked terrestrial-freshwater-marine-community studies in the 1,500 km2 Greiner watershed, and in the Regional CHARS ERA that includes most of the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut. CHARS has an evolving in-house science capacity to support professional and technical aspects of science partnerships. Additionally, POLAR is presently funding a broad range of ecosystem studies in the CHARS ERA and is actively seeking science partnerships that support science objectives closely aligned with the NASA ABoVE Program. Please contact Donald McLennan (donald.mclennan@polar.gc.ca) or Adam Houben (adam.houben@polar.gc.ca) for further information, or come talk to us at our poster during the Poster Sessions during the Seattle Science Meeting.

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Poster Location ID: 56

Session Assigned: Vegetation Dynamics and Distribution

 


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