Northern Studies Training Program

2016 Research Symposium

Friday November 11, 2016; 764 Kaneff Tower

This forum showcases the work of recipients of the NSTP funding.  It is a highlight of the year that shows the breadth and depth of northern research ongoing at York and is proudly supported by the Robarts Centre.

Everyone is welcome.

Refreshments and lunch will be provided

Schedule:

9:00-9:30am Morning Coffee and Introductions

9:30-10:00am Erin Yunes Arctic Research: Ethical Approaches and Impacts on Inuit Communities

10:00-10:20am Marzena Marosz-Wantuch: "What does snow surface temperature tell us about sea ice thickness? Cases studies based on the field work in Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut, April 2016."

10:20-10:40am Mojtaba Daneshvar Nilu Investigating the Capabilities of the Sea Ice Sensor (SIS) for Measuring Sea Ice

10:40-11:00am Victoria Watson: The Uneven Impact of Water Security Issues for Inuit in Iqaluit

11:00-11:20am Andrijana Djokic:  Cumulative Effects Assessment as a Long-Term Community Planning Tool: Increasing Kluane First Nation Agency in the Proposed Wellgreen Mine (Re)Negotiations

11:20-11:40am Amelia Merhar: Moving Home: The Art and Embodiment of Transience in the Canadian Child Welfare System - Yukon Project

11:40am-12:00pm Michael Bakaic Nunavut Water Resource Assessment

12:00-12:40: LUNCH

12:40 -1:00: Farahnaz Fazel-Rastgar:  Climate Change Impacts on Hudson Bay Local Wind Circulation

1:00-1:20pm Katerina Sofos: Rainfall Interception: Responses with Lichen Canopies Along the Hudson Bay Lowlands of Churchill, Manitoba

1:20-1:40pm Devin Feroze Ali: Modeling evaporation in lichen dominated systems using thermal imaging and meteorological data

1:40-2:00pm Colin O’Neil: 'Protect the Peel': Wilderness and contested environments in Yukon's Peel Watershed

2:00-2:20pm Katie Florko: Dietary trends of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in the Western Canadian Arcti

2:20-2:40pm Ryan Scott: Sampling aquatic food webs and benthic communities in the Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories

2:40-3:00pm Katherine Triglav: Benthic Bio-Indicators for Tursujuq National Park