Using paleolimnological methods to assess environmental change across Canada

The Canadian landscape has an abundance of lakes under pressure from multiple stressors. Lakes are sentinels of environmental change, as they archive changes occurring both within the lake, and in the surrounding terrestrial ecosystems within its watershed. Paleolimnology, that is, the study of lake sediment cores to reconstruct past climatic and environmental changes, helps us

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Long-term perspectives on lake ecosystem change with thawing permafrost

Principal Investigator: Jennifer Korosi. Funding: NSERC. Term: 2017-2022. The research investigates how lakes are changing in response to thawing permafrost in the Taiga Plains and Mackenzie Delta Uplands regions (Northwest Territories) using lake sediment cores as natural archives of long-term environmental change.