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2017

Program International Arctic Change Conference ᐊᕐᕌᒍᑕᒫᕐᓯᐅᑎᒥᒃ ᑲᑎᒪᓂᕐᒃ Réunion scientifique annuelle 11-15 DECEMBER - Québec City, Québec

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 Program

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Student Day Program

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Plenary Program

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Topical Session Program

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Sponsors 48 Principal Partners

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Partners 51 Exhibitors 52 Advertisements 59 Breakfast Options

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Floor Plans

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ArcticNet Meeting and Conference Code of Conduct

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AC2017 Conference Program

General Program

GENERAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM

MONDAY 11 DECEMBER

TUESDAY 12 DECEMBER

WEDNESDAY 13 DECEMBER

THURSDAY 14 DECEMBER

FRIDAY 15 DECEMBER

08:30

Student Day (Room: 400BC)

AC2017 Opening Session (Room: 400BC)

Plenary Session (Room: 400BC)

Plenary Session (Room: 400BC)

Topical Sessions

10:00

Coffee Break (Foyer 4)

Coffee Break (Room: 400A)

Coffee Break (Room: 400A)

Coffee Break (Room: 400A)

Coffee Break (Room: 400A)

10:30

Student Day (Room: 400BC)

Topical Sessions

Topical Sessions

Topical Sessions

Plenary Session (Room: 400BC)

12:00

Lunch (Room: 200)

Lunch (Room: 200)

Lunch (Room: 200)

Lunch (Room: 200)

Meeting adjourns

13:30

Student Day (Room: 303A)

Topical Sessions

Topical Sessions

Topical Sessions

15:00

Coffee Break (Foyer 4)

Coffee Break (Room: 400A)

Coffee Break (Room: 400A)

Coffee Break (Room: 400A)

15:30

Student Day (Room: 303A, 400BC)

Topical Sessions

Topical Sessions

Topical Sessions

17:00

Frozen Ground Cartoons - Booklet Launch (Videotron Hall) 17:00-19:00

Poster Session/ Welcome Reception (Room: 400A)

Polar Reception - International Arctic Science Collaboration Reception (Videotron Hall)

Poster Session/ Welcome Reception (Room: 400A)

Dr. Barber Honorary Degree (Room: 400BC)

18:30

19:00

19:30

Inuit Culture Night (Videotron Hall) 19:00-22:00

Gala Banquet (Room: 200) 19:00-23:00 The Breaking Ice Film Screening (Room: 400BC) 20:00-21:30

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Student Day Program

2017 ARCTIC CHANGE STUDENT DAY PROGRAM Addressing Arctic change requires cooperation and collaboration between a range of states, Indigenous communities, researchers, and other stakeholders around the world. Arctic Change 2017 Student Day transcends international boundaries and research disciplines to provide a range of sessions that equip early-career researchers with the tools they need to succeed in international Arctic research. The theme for Student Day 2017 is ‘International Cooperation and Collaboration in Arctic Research’ and is brought to you in collaboration with the ArcticNet Student Association (ASA), the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), and the Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN). Student Day will offer a range of plenaries, workshops, and panel discussions, as well as an ice-breaker event, an elevator pitch competition, and a networking/social evening.

MONDAY, 11 DECEMBER The Québec City Convention Centre

Session Title 8:30

Welcome remarks

Room ArcticNet, ArcticNet Student Association Executive Committee (ASA), Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), and Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN).

400BC

CANADA AND THE INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR (IPY): FROM KNOWLEDGE TO ACTION

8:45

Plenary

Dr. Peter Harrison (Professor Emeritus, Queen’s University; Chair of the Montreal IPY “From Knowledge to Action” Conference (2012)) About: Some of the early career scientists at the conference have benefitted from Canada’s $156 million in IPY. I will describe the events leading up to IPY, and how Canada’s investment in research cams about (and nearly cratered); IPY results; and the Montreal IPY “From Knowledge to Action” Conference (2012). Indeed, APECS was a result of the IPY international cooperation.

400BC

ELEVATOR PITCHES (part 1) 9:30

Competition

10:00

Break

About: Student Day participants will have the opportunity to promote their science by means of an Elevator Pitch. Contestants will have one minute and one slide to pitch their research project and pique the public’s curiosity. Judges will award 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes to the top elevator pitches, and video versions of the pitches will be available for a People’s Choice Award.

400BC

About: Polar Bingo facilitated ice-breaker event. Coffee provided. ELEVATOR PITCHES (part 2)

10:30

Competition

About: Student Day participants will have the opportunity to promote their science by means of an Elevator Pitch. Contestants will have one minute and one slide to pitch their research project and pique the public’s curiosity. Judges will award 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes to the top elevator pitches, and video versions of the pitches will be available for a People’s Choice Award.

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AC2017 Conference Program

Student Day Program

VISIONS OF A FUTURE ARCTIC

11:00

Panel

Herb Nakimayak (Vice President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada; MLA for Nunakput at Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories), Alicia Aragutak (President Qarjuit Youth Council), Dr. Henry Huntington (Director, Arctic Science - Ocean Conservancy), Dr. Allen Pope (Executive Secretary International Arctic Science Committee), Dr. Ashley Cunsolo (Director, Labrador Institute of Memorial University).

400BC

Facilitator: Dr. Tristan Pearce (Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Sunshine Coast) About: A variety of leading Arctic thinkers will provide insights into their visions for the future of the Arctic and how these visions can become a reality. 12:00

Lunch NAVIGATING INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS IN RESEARCH

13:30

Speaker

Lars Kullerud (President of the University of the Arctic)

400BC

About: Lars Kullerud will share his stories about the trials and tribulations of navigating international collaborations in research and will highlight the key lessons from these experiences. THE ROLE OF NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS IN ARCTIC RESEARCH

13:30

Conversations from the couch

Dr. Stephen Petersen (Assiniboine Park Zoo), Kristin Westdal (Oceans North), Adriana Kusugak (Ilitaqsiniq - Nunavut Literacy Council), Cayla Chenier (Ilitaqsiniq - Nunavut Literacy Council), Kristeen McTavish (Food Security Coordinator for Nunatsiavut).

303B

Facilitator: Cassandra Debets (PhD Student, University of Manitoba). About: Addressing Arctic change requires cooperation and collaboration between a range of states, Indigenous communities, researchers, and other stakeholders around the world. This ‘conversations from the couch’ styled panel will reflect on the role that NGOs play in addressing Arctic change. BRIDGING NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PERSPECTIVES ON ARCTIC RESEARCH PRIORITIES (part 1) Co-facilitators: Schools on Board, Ikaarvik, and Environmental Technology Program (Iqaluit) second-year students.

13:30

Workshop

About: This engaging workshop will create a space for meaningful discussion about Arctic research priorities from both northern and southern students’ perspectives. A moderated discussion will facilitate knowledge sharing between students and early career researchers. This session is aimed at those interested in collaboratively developing future research projects and develop meaningful connections.

303A

COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH IN THE ARCTIC Kristeen McTavish (Food Security Coordinator for Nunatsiavut), Shannon O'Hara (Inuit Research Advisor for Inuvialuit), Carla Pamak (Inuit Research Advisor for Nunatsiavut), Robert Watt (Inuit Research Advisor for Nunavik), Jody Illasiak (Paulatuk Hunters and Trappers Committee) and Dr. Tristan Pearce (Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Sunshine Coast). Facilitator: Casey Remmer (PhD Student, University of Waterloo). 14:15

Conversations from the couch

About: Research on climate change in the Arctic, particularly projects aiming to contribute to practical adaptation initiatives, requires active involvement and collaboration with community members and local, regional and national organizations that use this research for policy-making. Arctic communities are already experiencing and adapting to environmental and socio-cultural changes, and researchers have a practical and ethical responsibility to engage with communities that are the focus of the research. This ‘conversations from the couch’ styled panel draws on the experiences of stakeholders working with communities across the Canadian Arctic to outline key considerations for effectively engaging Arctic communities in collaborative research.

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Student Day Program

BRIDGING NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PERSPECTIVES ON ARCTIC RESEARCH PRIORITIES (part 2) Co-facilitators: Schools on Board, Ikaarvik, and Environmental Technology Program (Iqaluit) second-year students. 14:15

Workshop

About: This engaging workshop will create a space for meaningful discussion about Arctic research priorities from both northern and southern students’ perspectives. A moderated discussion will facilitate knowledge sharing between students and early career researchers. This session is aimed at those interested in collaboratively developing future research projects and develop meaningful connections.

303A

DATA MANAGEMENT ESSENTIALS

14:15

Workshop

10:00

Break

Dr. Julie Friddell (Director, Canadian Cryospheric Information Network; Polar Data Catalogue) and Gabrielle Alix (Data Manager, Canadian Cryospheric Information Network/Polar Data Catalogue). About: 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. This workshop will present the importance of data management and discuss how to take good care of your data and information.

303B

About: Coffee provided. USING TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT PEOPLE IN A CHANGING ARCTIC

15:30

Workshop

Guy Aubé (Senior Programs Officer, Earth Observation Applications and Utilizations, Canadian Space Agency), Joey Angnatok (Mentor Harvester, Field Researcher & Winner of the 2014 Inuit Recognition Award) and Dr. Benoit Montpetit (Physical Scientist - National Wildlife Research Center, Environment and Climate Change Canada).

303A

About: A variety of Earth observation products and services have been developed in recent years to support Arctic communities through the unique challenges and opportunities in a changing environment. This workshop will discuss how these products and services support academia, industries, Arctic communities and other organizations in performing cutting-edge climate and polar research. BRIDGE FROM SCIENCE TO DECISION-MAKING AND POLICY Gregor Gilbert (Senior Resource Development Department Coordinator at Makivik Corporation), Leah Braithwaite (Executive Director – ArcticNet), Dr. Lisa Loseto (Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and University Manitoba) and Rodd Lang (Director of Environment at Nunatsiavut Government). 15:30

Conversations from the couch

Facilitator: Casey Remmer (PhD Student, University of Waterloo). About: All decisions and policies are based the decision maker’s beliefs and values. Science can help decision makers by shaping their beliefs. Unfortunately, science is not easily accessible to decision makers, and scientists often do not understand decision makers’ information needs. This ‘conversations from the couch’ styled panel will draw on decision makers’ insights to inform early-career researchers on the best practices to bridge science to decision-making and policy.

400BC

EXPERIENCES STUDYING AND WORKING INTERNATIONALLY Dr. Allen Pope (Executive Secretary - International Arctic Science Committee), Eranga Galappaththi (PhD Candidate, McGill University), Melanie Flynn (PhD student, University of Leeds), and Gwenaelle Gremion (PhD candidate at Université du Québec à Rimouski UQAR-ISMER). 15:30

Conversations from the couch

Facilitator: Sarah Arnold (MSc. Candidate, University of Manitoba). About: There has been a sharp rise in the number of early-career researchers choosing to work and study abroad in recent years. Overseas experience can enrich the lives of early-career researchers both professionally and personally. This ‘conversations from the couch’ styled panel will draw on experiences and insights from panellists about the benefits and challenges of working or studying abroad.

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303B

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16:30

19:00

Closing remarks

Social night

Student Day Program

ArcticNet, ArcticNet Student Association Executive Committee (ASA), Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), and Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN). About: Leah Braithwaite (Executive Director of ArcticNet) will discuss the future of ArcticNet. There will also be a summary of Student Day, a facilitated ice-(re)breaker, and the book launch of Frozen Ground. About: This year, the social night will include an Arctic themed bilingual (French and English) quiz. The quiz will be composed of 3 rounds: 1) general knowledge with 2) Arctic-related questions, and 3) themed songs. Attendees will be randomly allocated into small teams. Cash prizes are up for grabs. The space will available after the quiz or people to meet and network.

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La Ninkasi St-Jean 811, rue St-Jean

AC2017 Conference Program

Plenary Program

PLENARY PROGRAM TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER (8:30-10:00) Room: 400BC (Plenary) Chair: Leah Braithwaite Executive Director, ArcticNet 8:30

Leah Braithwaite Executive Director, ArcticNet

Welcome Address

8:40

Dr. Eugénie Brouillet Vice Rector of Research, Creation and Innovation, Laval University

Opening Remarks

8:50

Herb Nakimayak Vice President, Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada

Opening Remarks

9:00

Raleigh Seamster Senior Program Manager, GoogleEarth

Monitoring environmental change with Google Cloud technologies: are there opportunities for the Arctic?

Dr. Joel Heath Executive Director, Arctic Eider Society/SIKU Lucassie Arragutainaq Manager-Sanikiluaq Hunters and Trappers Assoc. Member – Arctic Eider Society Board of Directors

SIKU: The Inuit Knowledge Wiki and Social Mapping Platform

9:40

Dr. Louis Fortier Scientific Director, ArcticNet

Arctic adaptation and global climate change: the Mammoth in the Room?

9:55

Schools On Board – the Film

9:20

WEDNESDAY, 13 DECEMBER (08:30-10:00) Room: 400BC (Plenary) Chair: Leah Braithwaite Executive Director, ArcticNet 8:30

Leah Braithwaite Executive Director, ArcticNet

Opening Remarks

8:35

Larry Hinzman Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Adaptation Actions to a Changing Arctic

8:55

Panel Discussion

9:05

Panel Discussion - ‘The Northwest Passage: Defence, Diplomacy, and Development’ Chair: The Honourable Lawrence Cannon Members: Hannah Uniuqsaraq, Lindsay Rodman, Suzanne Lalonde, Tom Lawson, Michael Byers Georgie Dalglish Director, The W. Garfield Weston Foundation

9:40

The W. Garfield Weston Foundation: Presentation of the $100,000 Weston Family Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Northern Research

Dr. Monique Bernier Director – Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies

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Plenary Program

THURSDAY, 14 DECEMBER (08:30-10:00) Room: 400BC (Plenary) Chair: Leah Braithwaite Executive Director, ArcticNet 08:30

Leah Braithwaite Executive Director, ArcticNet

Opening Remarks

08:35

Natan Obed President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

Opening Remarks

08:45

Dr. Pierre Ayotte Full professor, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Laval University

The Inuit Health Survey

09:05

09:50

Panel Discussion – ‘Arctic Tourism: Opportunity or Challenge?’ Chair: Jackie Dawson Members: Machial Lamers, Jason Edmunds, Graham Dickson, Natasha Simonee, Munju Ravindra

Kevin Kablutsiak

The Arctic Inspiration Prize – An Update

FRIDAY, 15 DECEMBER (10:30-12:00) Room: 400BC (Plenary) Chair: Leah Braithwaite Executive Director, ArcticNet 10:30

Leah Braithwaite Executive Director, ArcticNet

Opening Remarks

10:35

Dr. Peter Harrison Professor Emeritus, Queen's University

Commercial Fishing in the Arctic High Seas

10:50

Dr. Peter Pulsifer Research Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado

Enhancing polar research and decision making: Advances in international data sharing through active collaboration

11:05

Dr. Scot Nickels Director, Inuit Qaujisarvingat and Senior Science Advisor, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

Implementing the Inuit Research Strategy

11:20

Bronwyn Hancock Yukon College

A bright new future: Education, reconciliation and research at Yukon University

11:35

Dr. Louis Fortier Scientific Director, ArcticNet

ArcticNet – What’s Next?

11:55

Leah Braithwaite Executive Director, ArcticNet

Closing Remarks

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Topical Session Program

TOPICAL SESSION PROGRAM TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER - 10:30 TO 12:00 ECO05. Pelagic-Benthic Coupling in the Arctic Ocean

Chairs: Christina Bienhold, Catherine Lalande and Nathalie Morata Room: 202 10:30

Catherine Lalande

Pelagic-benthic coupling in the Chukchi Sea: Annual cycle of biogenic matter fluxes on the most productive Arctic shelf

10:45

Christine Dybwad

Seasonal patterns of downward carbon export in seasonal ice zone north of Svalbard

11:00

Gwenaelle Gremion

Modeling coagulation and benthic-pelagic coupling in a productive Arctic environment

11:15

Helmuth Thomas

Aerobic and anaerobic sedimentary respiration in Baffin Bay - a water column perspective

11:30

Christina Bienhold

Pelagic-benthic coupling on the Laptev Sea continental slope between two contrasting years (1993 and 2012)

11:45

Nathalie Morata

Impact of changing environmental conditions on benthic communities during the Arctic spring

NAV03 - I. Understanding the Impacts of Arctic Shipping and Maritime Traffic: from Plankton to People Chairs: Jackie Dawson and Alain Dupuis Room: 203 10:30

Jackie Dawson

Changes and patterns of shipping activity in Nunavut since 1990

10:45

Kimberly Howland

Development of tools and capacity for community-based monitoring of biodiversity shifts and early detection of aquatic invasive species (AIS) in the Canadian Arctic: preparing for impacts of climate change and associated increases in shipping activity

11:00

Natalie Carter

Arctic corridors and northern voices: Inuit-identified impacts of shipping and recommendations for low impact shipping corridors

11:15

Henry Huntington

Vessels, risks, and rules: Planning for safe shipping in Bering Strait

SUD03. Oil Spill Preparedness in Arctic Seas Chairs: Casey Hubert and Gary Stern Room: 205 BC 10:30

Megan O'Sadnick

MOSIDEO/CIRFA Experiments on Behavior and Detection of Oil in Ice

10:45

Diana Chirkova

Chemical partitioning of crude oil in sea ice and its implementation for real-time risk assessments and vulnerability mapping

11:00

Leendert Vergeynst

In situ investigation of hydrocarbon degradation in Arctic seawater and sea ice

11:15

Durell Desmond

Oil behavior in sea ice: Changes in chemical composition and resultant effect on sea ice permittivity

11:30

Sean Murphy

Nutrient amended biodegradation of hydrocarbon contamination along Canada’s Labrador coast

11:45

Feiyue Wang

The Churchill Marine Observatory (CMO) and the Oil Spills in Ice-Covered Arctic waters (OSICA) Consortium

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Topical Session Program

TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER - 10:30 TO 12:00 (CONTINUED) REG01 - I. Hudson Bay - Research and Community Linkages Chairs: Lauren Candlish, David Barber and Zou Zou Kuzyk Room: 206 A 10:30

David Barber

The Hudson Bay BaySys project – a review and update

10:45

Paul Myers

NEMO Modelling in and around the Hudson Bay Complex

11:00

Stephen Dery

Does flow regulation transcend climate change impacts on river discharge into Hudson Bay?

11:15

Greg McCullough

Freshwater-marine coupling in greater Hudson Bay system

11:30

David Babb

Sea ice in Hudson Bay: A summary of recent findings and ongoing research

NAV04. Investigating the Arctic Seabed: Geohazards, Navigation and the Record of Environmental Change Chairs: Patrick Lajeunesse and Mark Furze Room: 301 A 10:30

Laura-Ann Broom

Investigation of a Holocene marine sedimentary record from Pond Inlet, Nunavut – Is there a paleoseismicity signal?

10:45

Robert Deering

Submarine slope failures in inner Frobisher Bay: What, where, when, and why

11:00

Etienne Brouard

Glacial to postglacial landform assemblages in fjords of northeastern Baffin Island

11:15

Charles-Edouard Deschamps

Mineralogy and rare earth elements geochemistry of sediments from the western Arctic Ocean: Implications for sediment provenance and paleoclimate

11:30

Alec Aitken

Frobisher Bay: A natural laboratory for the study of environmental change in Canadian Arctic marine habitats

11:45

Pierre-Arnaud Desiage

Sedimentary environments and post-glacial evolution of the Gulf of San Jorge (Patagonia) following the Last Glacial Maximum

COA05 - I. Physical and Biogeochemical Processes in Arctic Shelf Seas Chairs: Céline Guéguen, Zou Zou Kuzyk and Robie Macdonald Room: 301 B 10:30

Leif Anderson

Transport of carbon and nutrients through the Herald Canyon in the Arctic Ocean

10:45

Siri Ofstad

Methane-induced ocean acidification in the Northern Barents Sea

11:00

Mohamed Ahmed

Temporal and spatial variations of air-sea CO2 fluxes in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

11:15

Laurent Oziel

Role for Atlantic inflows and sea ice loss on shifting phytoplankton blooms in the Barents Sea

11:30

Atsushi Matsuoka

Recent trend in flux of dissolved organic carbon observed in the Mackenzie River mouth

11:45

Vladislav Petrusevich

Internal tidal waves under the landfast sea ice in the Southeast Hudson Bay

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Topical Session Program

TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER - 10:30 TO 12:00 (CONTINUED) EDPOL02. Northern Education and Outreach: Accomplishments, Opportunities and Challenges Chairs: Frédéric Bouchard, Caroline Coch and Ashley Rudy Room: 302 A 10:30

Diane Obed

Divided alliances: A discussion of the factors impacting persistence decisions made by Inuit students transitioning to post secondary

10:45

Michelle Clyde

Schools on Board: Engaging northern youth in Arctic system science through experiential learning opportunities that connects them with researchers

11:00

Joannie Ferland

Green Edge project: A large-scale public outreach and educational initiative

11:15

Sophie DufourBeauséjour

Ice Mission: Including Nunavik High School Science Classes in the Ice Monitoring Project

11:30

Heather Ochaliski

(re)visioning Success in Inuit Education: A report of the 2017 Inuit Education Forum

11:45

Lucette Barber

A collaborative approach to major scientific outreach, communication and education initiatives

12:00

Heather Ochaliski

Foundations for student success and persistence in Inuit Nunangat

COA01 - I. Glacier Change and Ice-Ocean Interaction Chairs: Derek Mueller and Luke Copland Room: 302 B 10:30

Brian Moorman

Quantifying glacier dry calving with InSAR

10:45

Sarah St. Germain

Measuring the evolution of Supraglacial Streams: Fountain Glacier, Bylot Island, Nunavut

11:00

Laura Thomson

Englacial temperature changes in a Canadian high-Arctic polythermal glacier: 1960-2017

11:15

Shawn Marshall

Meltwater percoation and retention in the Greenland Ice Sheet

11:30

Birgit Wessel

Elevation changes of the Greenland ice sheet derived from multi-temporal TanDEM-X DEM data from 2010 to 2015

11:45

Paul Myers

Modelling Greenland icebergs: Pathways and freshwater contribution

SUD02. Change and Sustainability in Coastal Resource-based Communities in the Arctic Chairs: Andrey Petrov, Chris Southcott and Jessica Graybill Room: 303 A 10:30

Jessica Graybill

Unpacking coastal social-ecological systems in the Arctic: The case of Teriberka, Russia

10:45

Chris Southcott

Sustainability and population in the Canadian Northern coastal communities: The impacts of resource development

11:00

Michael Ross

Barriers to integrating renewables in Northern communities

11:15

Marianne Falardeau

A systematic approach to untangle the interacting impacts of climate change on the Arctic marine social-ecological system

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Topical Session Program

TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER - 10:30 TO 12:00 (CONTINUED) CBIK06 - I. Community-Based Research as a Circum-Arctic Strategy for Sustainable Adaptation Planning Chairs: Louis-Philippe Roy, Alevtina Evgrafova and Elena Kuznetsova Room: 303 B 10:30

Shelley Tulloch and S. Moore

Building Indigenous leaders in education through conscientization, resistance, and transformative action in Indigenous teacher education

10:45

D. Boase and Tracey Doherty

Sharing the story of Nunatsiavut's Inuit bachelor of education program through documentary film

11:00

Gentiane Perrault Sullivan

Qualitative study on Nunavik youths vision of mental health and an overlook of the local organizations responses to their needs

11:15

Christian Norton

Ethnobotany in Nunatsiavut: Understanding berry picking through biological and cultural perspectives

11:30

Louis-Philippe Roy

Mapping permafrost vulnerability in Vuntut Gwitchin traditional territory

HUM06 - I. Vulnerability, Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change in the Arctic Chairs: Tristan Pearce and James Ford Room: 304 AB 10:30

Henry Huntington

How small communities respond to environmental change: Patterns from tropical to polar ecosystems

10:45

Eranga Galappaththi

How do Inuit fishers experience and respond to climate change? Empirical evidence from the Pangnirtung community in Nunavut, Canada

11:00

Darya Anderson

Bakeapple picking in a changing physical and social landscape

11:15

Eric Lede

We don’t adapt in a vacuum: the role of multiple stressors in adaptation to climate change in Paulatuk, NT

11:30

Chui-Ling Tam

Furtive strands of climate change in everyday stories of the Kitikmeot

TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER - 13:30 TO 15:00 ECO07 - I. Arctic Marine Mammals and the Complexity of Climate Change Chairs: Melissa McKinney, Steve Ferguson and Alysa McCall Room: 202 13:30

Steve Ferguson

Findings and recommendations on Arctic marine mammals from the state of the Arctic Marine Biodiversity Report

13:45

Jody Reimer

Synthesizing existing knowledge of ringed seal demography to highlight knowledge gaps and prioritize future research

14:00

Henry Huntington

Evaluating the effects of climate change on Indigenous marine mammal hunting in Northern and Western Alaska using traditional knowledge

14:15

Stephen Petersen

Harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in the Churchill River Estuary: Increased abundance coincident with decreasing sea ice conditions in western Hudson Bay

14:30

Kevin Scharffenberg

Passive acoustic monitoring to identify drivers of beluga whale habitat use in the Mackenzie Estuary

14:45

Alysa McCall

Using technology to monitor polar bear (Ursus maritimus) behaviour, track movements, mitigate conflict, and support public outreach efforts in a changing Arctic

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TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER - 13:30 TO 15:00 (CONTINUED) NAV03 - II. Understanding the Impacts of Arctic Shipping and Maritime Traffic: from Plankton to People Chairs: Jackie Dawson and Alain Dupuis Room: 203 13:30

Kimberly Howland

Domestic shipping: A potential vector for transport of nonindigenous species to Canadian Arctic waters?

13:45

Julia Olsen

Consequences of increasing shipping in the Barents region on local adaptive capacity

14:00

Jesica Goldsmit

Assessing the ecological risk on predicted ship-mediated invasions in the Canadian Arctic

14:15

William Halliday

Shipping in the western Canadian Arctic: Potential impacts on marine mammals in marine protected areas and possible management solutions

EDPOL03 - I. Honoring the Spirit and Intent of Land Claims Co-Management in the Canadian North Chairs: Jamie Snook, Kaitlin Breton-Honeyman and Vicki Sahanatien Room: 205 BC 13:30

Jamie Snook

A systematic realist review of the Canadian land claims co-management board literature

13:45

Lindsay Staples

Regime shift: wildlife co-management and institutional reboot

14:00

Vic Gillman

Three decades of fisheries co-management in the western Arctic

14:15

Gregor Gilbert

Wildlife co-management under the James Bay & Northern Quebec Agreement: Forty-two years of frustration

14:30

Robert Moshenko

Early successes in the management of wildlife in three Arctic coastal aboriginal co-management boards

14:45

Bindu Panikkar

“Litigation is our last resort”: The role of legal pluralism in movements for indigenous sovereignty, environmental justice, and the rights of nature

REG01 - II. Hudson Bay - Research and Community Linkages Chairs: Lauren Candlish, David Barber and Zou Zou Kuzyk Room: 206 A 13:30

Janghan Lee

Nutrient dynamics in the Hudson Bay

13:45

Loic Jacquemot

Microbial diversity across the Hudson Bay: a river to sea continuum

14:00

Sarah Schembri

Biodiversity, distribution and biomass of fish in Hudson Bay

14:15

Rajtantra Lilhare

Hydrologic sensitivity of the Lower Nelson River Basin to lakes, wetlands and frozen ground

14:30

Andrew Tefs

Simulating effects of Nelson-Churchill River regulation controls on freshwater exports to Hudson Bay

14:45

Scott Pokorny

Meteorological forcing standardization for multi-model uncertainty assessment of the Lower Nelson River Basin

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Topical Session Program

TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER - 13:30 TO 15:00 (CONTINUED) ECO01 - I. Arctic Marine Primary Producers: Bloom Phenology, Production Estimates, and Biogeochemical Processes in an Era of Climate Change Chairs: C.J. Mundy, Eva Leu and Ane Cecilie Kvernvik Room: 301 A 13:30

C.J. Mundy

Emerging physical and biological properties in a new Arctic ice regime

13:45

Nicolas Mayot

Spatiotemporal variabilities of phytoplankton activity in the Greenland Sea

14:00

Armelle Galine Simo Matchim

Challenging Phaeocystis pouchetii against diatoms during the summer bloom of phytoplankton in Labrador fjords (Eastern Canada): Implications for the system productivity

14:15

Eva Leu

Phenology studies of Arctic sea ice algal and phytoplankton blooms in two model fjord ecosystems: A key to a mechanistic understanding of major environmental drivers?

14:30

Nadja Steiner

Progress in modelling coupled sympagic-pelagic ecosystems in the Canadian Arctic

14:45

Letizia Tedesco

Sea-ice phenology in a warmer Arctic

COA05 - II. Physical and Biogeochemical Processes in Arctic Shelf Seas Chairs: Céline Guéguen, Zou Zou Kuzyk and Robie Macdonald Room: 301 B 13:30

Alexandre Forest

Physical and biological processes at the margin of the Mackenzie Shelf: A summary of salient results from mooring-based observations over 2009-2017

13:45

Sohidul Islam

Effects of photolytic and microbial degradation of dissolved organic matter in the Hudson Bay watershed

14:00

Urs Neumeier

Coastal oceanography project for the eastern James Bay (northern Quebec, Canada)

14:15

Michel Gosselin

The influence of environmental factors on eelgrass distribution in eastern James Bay

14:30

Zou Zou Kuzyk

Community-driven research on freshwater dynamics in the coastal domain of Southeast Hudson Bay and East James Bay

ECO12 - I. Pagophilia in a World Without Ice: Ecology of Ice-Associated Wildlife in the 21st Century Chairs: Kyle Elliott, George Divoky and Christophe Barbraud Room: 302 A 13:30

Tiphaine Jeanniarddu-Dot

Learning to forage in the North: distribution and ontogeny of foraging of newly weaned hooded seal pups

13:45

George Divoky

Was the 2017 breeding season a tipping point for Mandt’s Black Guillemot in Alaska? : An ice-associated seabird continues to struggle in a melting Arctic

14:00

Thomas Lazarus

How do thick-billed murres cope with the loss of its major pagophilic prey, the Arctic cod?

14:15

Erin Brown

Diving behaviour of Black Guillemots when prey switching in a changing Arctic environment

14:30

Shannon Whelan

Contrasting effects of ocean warming on pagophilic versus non-pagophilic seabirds

14:45

Kyle Elliott

Does mercury interfere with thick-billed murres’ ability to respond to ice disappearance at their southern range limits in the Canadian Arctic?

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TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER - 13:30 TO 15:00 (CONTINUED) COA01 - II. Glacier Change and Ice-Ocean Interaction Chairs: Derek Mueller and Luke Copland Room: 302 B 13:30

Ashley Dubnick

The biogeochemistry at the base of Arctic glaciers

13:45

Jill Rajewicz

Channelized freshwater drainage beneath Milne Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut

14:00

Andrew Hamilton

Modification and variability of ocean properties in a High Arctic ice shelf fjord: Milne Fiord, Ellesmere Island

14:15

Abigail Dalton

Iceberg production and characteristics at the termini of tidewater glaciers around the Prince of Wales Icefield, Ellesmere Island

14:30

Derek Mueller

A computationally efficient finite element model to simulate large scale fracture in ice island

ECO09 - I. Rapid Changes in Extreme Environments: the High Arctic Chairs: Greg Henry and Warwick Vincent Room: 303 A 13:30

Luke Copland

Rapid recent changes to glacial environments in the Canadian High Arctic

13:45

Ross Brown

Climate variability and change in the Canadian High Arctic

14:00

Benjamin Lange

Assessing the ecological consequences of losing the Last Ice Area

14:15

Scott Lamoureux

Watershed impacts from permafrost change and disturbance in the High Arctic

14:30

Paschale Noël Bégin

Littoral zones in the High Arctic lakes and the implications of ice cover loss

14:45

Myriam Labbé

Micro-parasites from the past: a portrait of viruses in ancient Arctic seawater

CBIK06 - II. Community-Based Research as a Circum-Arctic Strategy for Sustainable Adaptation Planning Chairs: Louis-Philippe Roy, Alevtina Evgrafova and Elena Kuznetsova Room: 303 B 13:30

Richard Nesbitt

“One Voice” to Monitor Northern Canada’s Freshwater Aquatic Environment: A method using Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and Western Science in Conjunction

13:45

Natasha Thorpe and Mary Avalak

When research goals float downstream: Adaptive integrated community research at an Arctic Char Elder-Youth Camp

14:00

Brent Parsons

Identification, characterization and prioritization of degraded fish habitat in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut

14:15

Malik Awan

Estimates of wolverine density from mark-recapture DNA sampling, Aberdeen Lake, Kivalliq Region, Nunavut

14:30

Lynda Orman

Baffin Island Barren-Ground Caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus): A case study in Inuit co-management under the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement, Canada

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TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER - 13:30 TO 15:00 (CONTINUED) HUM06 - II. Vulnerability, Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change in the Arctic Chairs: Tristan Pearce and James Ford Room: 304 AB 13:30

Yves Thériault and B. Linaker

Fostering a bottom-up approach to climate change adaptation

13:45

Jennifer Spence

Institutional dimensions of Northern adaptation to climate change: The Canadian case

14:00

Melanie Flynn

Key principles and challenges for effective knowledge mobilization with Arctic communities

14:15

Maryann Fidel

Institutions to empower Indigenous Peoples for successful adaptive action – A case study of Tribal Conservation Districts

14:30

Nathan Dos Santos Debortoli

A systems network approach for climate change vulnerability assessment

TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER - 15:30 TO 17:00 ECO07 - II. Arctic Marine Mammals and the Complexity of Climate Change Chairs: Melissa McKinney, Steve Ferguson and Alysa McCall Room: 202 15:30

Justine Hudson

Snot For Science: Using respiratory condensate to measure stress levels in Western Hudson Bay belugas (Delphinapterus leucas)

15:45

Jennifer Bourque

Decadal-scale changes in the feeding ecology of Alaskan polar bears

16:00

Wesley Ogloff

Diet and isotopic niche overlap between two Arctic phocids in Cumberland Sound, Nunavut

16:15

Melissa McKinney

Towards quantitative estimation of killer whale diets using blubber fatty acid signatures

COA07 - I. Atmospheric Processes and Interfaces in the Arctic Chairs: Kaley A. Walker, Emma Mungall and Oleksandr Huziy Room: 203 15:30

Zen Mariani

The Canadian Arctic Weather Science Project

15:45

William Ward

Winds and waves in the Arctic upper atmosphere

16:00

Jean-Pierre Blanchet

Essential results from a 10-Year research on aerosols, polar clouds, precipitation, and radiation interactions

16:15

Norm O'Neill

Analysis of remotely sensed, aerosol-cloud interaction over the Arctic

16:30

Patrick Hayes

Characterization of aerosol size distributions and optical properties in the Canadian High Arctic using surface and columnar observations

16:45

Robert Sica

Towards developing a near real-time volcanic ash and forest fire smoke tracking and alert system in Canada using a network of ceilometers

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TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER - 15:30 TO 17:00 (CONTINUED) EDPOL03 - II. Honoring the Spirit and Intent of Land Claims Co-Management in the Canadian North Chairs: Jamie Snook, Kaitlin Breton-Honeyman and Vicki Sahanatien Room: 205 BC 15:30

David Lee

Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and wildlife co-management: Recognizing Inuit systems of wildlife management that contribute to the conservation of wildlife and protection of wildlife habitat

15:45

Sarah Lloyd, Kristin Hynes and E. Lea

Dolly Varden co-management in the Gwich’in Settlement Area and Inuvialuit Settlement Region: Community-led decision-making for sustainable management of vulnerable fisheries

16:00

Mark Basterfield

The evolution of Beluga management in the Nunavik Marine Region: Moving towards co-production of knowledge.

16:15

Vicki Sahanatien

Climate change and marine species: a looming challenge for wildlife management boards Facilitated & participatory discussion What do you envision as the future of land claims co-management, and what will our roles be?

16:30

REG01 - III. Hudson Bay - Research and Community Linkages Chairs: Lauren Candlish, David Barber and Zou Zou Kuzyk Room: 206 A 15:30

Tricia Stadnyk

A changing freshwater regime in the Hudson Bay Drainage Basin

15:45

Kyle Elliott

Seabird responses as Hudson Bay switches from an Arctic to sub-Arctic ecosystem

16:00

Ashley Gaden

IRIS 3: Contaminants in Hudson Bay

16:15

Alain Tremblay

Eeyou Istchee eelgrass research project, James Bay east coast

16:30

Zou Zou Kuzyk

Integrated Regional Impact Study (IRIS) of the greater Hudson Bay marine region: Foxe Basin, Hudson Bay, James Bay, and Hudson Strait

16:45

Joel Heath and L. Arragutainaq

The inaugural Hudson Bay Summit (Winter 2018): Towards coordinated environmental stewardship for the greater Hudson Bay/James Bay region through formation of a Hudson Bay Consortium

ECO01 - II. Arctic Marine Primary Producers: Bloom Phenology, Production Estimates, and Biogeochemical Processes in an Era of Climate Change Chairs: C.J. Mundy, Eva Leu and Ane Cecilie Kvernvik Room: 301 A 15:30

Jean-Éric Tremblay

Changing nutrient availability and marine biological productivity in the Baffin Bay/Labrador Sea complex

15:45

Simon Bélanger

Are phytoplankton blooms of the sub-arctic seas of the North Atlantic controlled by boundary current eddies?

16:00

Karley Campbell

Controls of sea ice algal and bacterial production in Dease Strait of the Northwest Passage

16:15

Laura Dalman

Tidal straits as hotspots for ice algal production: A case study in the Kitikmeot Sea

16:30

Ane Kvernvik

Large differences in ecophysiological responses to combined stress by high light and ocean acidification in sympagic and pelagic Arctic diatom species

16:45

Martine Lizotte

The Arctic hydrosphere-cryosphere complex: A dynamic nexus of biogenic dimethylsulfide production during summer

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TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER - 15:30 TO 17:00 (CONTINUED) ECO04 - I. Studying Trophic Interactions in Arctic Ecosystems Chairs: Jennifer Provencher and David Yurkowski Room: 301 B 15:30

Barbara de Moura Neves

Towards a better understanding of the trophic ecology of northern deep-water soft corals (Cnidaria: family Nephtheidae)

15:45

Thew Suskiewicz

Herbivory from the Canadian arctic to the Gulf of St. Lawrence: Kelp consumption rates of the green sea urchin.

16:00

David Yurkowski

Abundance and species diversity hotspots of tracked marine predators across the Arctic

16:15

Nicolas Lecomte

Large-scale ecological drivers of arctic predator biodiversity

SUD01 - I. Extractive Industries and Sustainable Livelihoods in the Arctic Chairs: Stephan Schott, Dag Avango and Thierry Rodon Room: 302 A 15:30

Julie Fortin

Asymmetrical power relationships and public influence within evaluation and authorization processes of mining projects in Northern Quebec: What place for free, prior and informed consent?

15:45

Thierry Rodon

Power-less or power-full ? Indigenous land claims agreement and resource development in the Canadian Arctic

16:00

Anteneh Belayneh

Mining in the Canadian Sub-arctic: Where are the benefits going?

16:15

Stephan Schott

Inuit businesses’ experiences with major mining projects in the Canadian Sub-arctic: How do expectations measure up?

16:30

Francesca Croce and Nathan CohenFournier

What is an Inuit business? A comparative analysis between the Inuit regions of Canada

MON03. Arctic Observing System and Techniques Chairs: Maribeth Murray and Rysgaard Soeren Room: 302 B 15:30

Nick Burchill

Hydrographic under-ice surveying using the MUNIN AUV and Single-Beacon Navigation

15:45

Richard Hann

Opportunities and challenges for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the Arctic

16:00

Eric Rehm

Comparing fluorescent and differential absorption LiDAR techniques for detecting macroalgal biomass with applications to Arctic substrates

16:15

Alice Bradley

Reinforced buoy for in situ microstructure observations during the ice growth season

16:30

Geir Johnsen

Use of optical sensors to identify, map and monitor phyto- and zooplankton

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TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER - 15:30 TO 17:00 (CONTINUED) ECO09 - II. Rapid Changes in Extreme Environments: the High Arctic Chairs: Greg Henry and Warwick Vincent Room: 303 A 15:30

Greg Henry

Vegetation change in the Canadian High Arctic: potential, constraints and evidence

15:45

Zoe Panchen

High Arctic phenology: Climate change impacts and responses

16:00

Esther Frei

Long-term effects of climate change on functional traits of High Arctic plant species

16:15

Florence Lapierre Poulin

Vulnerability of Arctic fox reproductive dens to climate change in the Canadian High Arctic

16:30

Yoo Kyung Lee

Contrasting successional trajectory of microbial community convergence between two glacier forelands of the High Arctic

16:45

Alevtina Evgrafova

Small-scale spatial patterns of soil organic carbon and macro-nutrients in northern Siberian permafrostaffected soils

CBIK05 - I. Strong Research Communities – Research Developed for and by the North Chairs: Scot Nickels and Amos Hayes Room: 303 B 15:30

Jean-Sébastien Moore and Richard Ekpakohak

Learning together : Comparison of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and scientific evidence yields insights into Arctic char biology in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut

15:45

Maia Hoeberechts

Looking back and looking ahead: Changing sea-ice in Cambridge Bay, Kugluktuk, and Gjoa Haven

16:00

Amos Hayes

Building Nunaliit with communities and vice versa

HUM06 - III. Vulnerability, Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change in the Arctic Chairs: Tristan Pearce and James Ford Room: 304 AB 15:30

Dylan Clark

Mapping transportation system vulnerabilities to climate change across the Canadian Arctic

15:45

Elizabeth Nyman

Climate change, disasters and community resilience in light of uncertain responsibility coordination – the case of Svalbard avalanches

16:00

David Fawcett

Inuit adaptability to changing environmental conditions over an 11-year period: A case study of Ulukhaktok, NT

16:15

Giacomo Valzania

Learning from and sharing with the native North: The case of the Urban Design and Housing Studio, McGill School of Architecture

16:30

Jacqueline Middleton

How do changes in weather, season, and climate impact Inuit mental health in Nunatsiavut?

16:45

Joanna Petrasek MacDonald and Darryl Havioyak

Identifying and implementing adaptation measures for river erosion in Kugluk Territorial Park, Nunavut

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WEDNESDAY, 13 DECEMBER - 10:30 TO 12:00 ECO10 - I. Climate Change Impacts on Arctic Freshwater Systems Chairs: Igor Lehnher and Alain Rousseau Room: 202 10:30

Scott Zolkos

CO2 in streams across a rapidly thawing permafrost landscape: not all is lost (to the atmosphere)

10:45

Paul Dainard

Dissolved organic and inorganic carbon dynamics in glacial river systems of the Canadian High Arctic

11:00

Vincent St. Louis

Microbial activity in the sediments of the world's largest High Arctic lake

11:15

Maria Cavaco

Characterizing microbial communities in a rapidly changing high Arctic watershed

11:30

Sherry Schiff

Are young fish (14C) “old” in the northern most Great Lake: Lake Hazen in the High Arctic?

11:45

Scott Lamoureux

Rapid lake hydrochemical and ecosystem change in high arctic lakes due to permafrost change

MON06 - I. Monitoring, Modeling and Predicting Arctic Biodiversity Chairs: Dominique Berteaux and Pascale Ropars Room: 203 10:30

Donald McLennan

The Canadian Arctic Observing and Prediction System (CAOPS) – A northern knowledge system to understand and forecast biodiversity change in Canada’s North

10:45

Isla Myers-Smith

Attribution of ecological change to warming across the tundra biome – a summary of recent data syntheses

11:00

Paul Grogan

Greening of the Arctic – Patterns and mechanisms: Has there been significant net growth and areal expansion of birch shrubs across a Canadian continental low arctic landscape over the past decade, and if so, what is the cause?

11:15

Jeffrey Kerby

Meso-scale Arctic ecology: Leveraging the High Latitude Drone Ecology Network (HiLDEN) to address longstanding knowledge gaps

11:30

Guillaume Blanchet

Mapping species distribution in the North

11:45

Pascale Ropars

Biodiversity and climate change: The future of northern terrestrial ecosystems

SUD04. Toward a Strategy to Address Cumulative Effects of Rapid Arctic Transitions due Infrastructure and Climate (RATIC) Chairs: Peter Schweitzer, Andrey Petrov and Elena Kuznetsova Room: 205 BC 10:30

Rocky Taylor

International Arctic Engineering Collaboration Project: Safety of Industrial Development and Transportation Routes in the Arctic (SITRA)

10:45

Warwick Vincent

Arctic Development and Adaptation to Permafrost in Transition: ADAPT perspectives on permafrost systems

11:00

Sarah Aube-Michaud

Permafrost Study for land use management in Nunavik Communities

11:15

Timo Kumpula

Reindeer pastures under change, landuse and climate induced impacts in Central Yamal peninsula, Russia

11:30

Wendy Loya

Quantification of cumulative changes related to infrastructure and climate within areas of development in Arctic Alaska

11:45

Fabrice Calmels

Assessing and monitoring permafrost along the Dempster Highway, YT: Paving the way for an adaptation strategy

12:00

Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer

Uneven development: infrastructure, population change, and modernization along the Northern Sea Route

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WEDNESDAY, 13 DECEMBER - 10:30 TO 12:00 (CONTINUED) REG04 - I. Adapting to the Changing Arctic - Findings and Recommendations from the Three AMAP Regional Assessments Chairs: Peter Outridge and Mickael Lemay Room: 206 A 10:30

Jon Fuglestad

Introduction to the Arctic Council Initiative: Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic (AACA)

10:45

Laura EerkesMedrano

Stakeholders and change in the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Region

11:00

Peter Outridge

Drivers and projections of change in the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort (BCB) Region

11:15

Peter Outridge

Arctic Change: Impacts and consequences for Northern communities and society

11:30

Don Lemmen

Adaptation in the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort region

11:45

Amy Lauren Lovecraft

The role of scenarios in Arctic adaptation

NAV07. Arctic Tourism

Chairs: Jackie Dawson and Machiel Lamers Room: 301 A 10:30

Pierre-Louis Têtu

Managing marine tourism in the Canadian Arctic: Toward the development of guidelines

10:45

Fabiola Lopez

Formal and “Traditional Rules” to manage cruise ship tourism in the Canadian Arctic, Sirmilik National Park and Bylot Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary

11:00

Munju Ravindra

Ship shape: managing cruise tourism to Parks Canada sites in Nunavut

ECO04 - II. Studying Trophic Interactions in Arctic Ecosystems Chairs: Jennifer Provencher and David Yurkowski Room: 301 B 10:30

Émile BrissonCuradeau

Detecting the effect of climate change using a diving seabird

10:45

Kathleen MacGregor

Primary productivity and mobile invertebrates in shallow rocky arctic environments: Understudied interactions

11:00

Mathieu LeBlanc

Co-distribution of seabirds and their polar cod prey near the ice edge in southern Baffin Bay

11:15

Cassandra Debets

Individual diet variation of ringed seals (Pusa hispida) in the Belcher Islands, Hudson Bay using chronological whisker isotopic profiling and satellite telemetry

11:30

Cody Dey

Polar bear predation of seaduck nests: Causes, consequences and projections for the future

11:45

Emily Choy

Bayesian analysis of eastern Beaufort Sea beluga whale inter-annual diet: insights on environmental change

12:00

Pierre Legagneux

ArcticWEB, a pan-Arctic network to monitor and model Arctic trophic interactions

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WEDNESDAY, 13 DECEMBER - 10:30 TO 12:00 (CONTINUED) SUD01 - II. Extractive Industries and Sustainable Livelihoods in the Arctic Chairs: Stephan Schott, Dag Avango and Thierry Rodon Room: 302 A 10:30

Jonathan Tollefson

Knowledge, sovereignty, and resource extraction in rural Alaska: A case study of the Donlin Gold public comment process

10:45

Sabrina Plante and Thierry Rodon

The relations between mining development, migratory caribou and indigenous economies in northern Quebec

11:00

Vincent L'Hérault

Subsistence social-ecological systems in a development context: Hunting pressure affects the condition, behaviour and social structure of tundra wolves

11:15

Micki Baydack

Socio-ecological reclamation in the Northwest Territories: A framework for the healing of the Bathurst caribou range

11:30

Richard Hann

Cold climate wind energy as a replacement for coal energy in Longyearbyen 78°N

COA02 - I. Marine Cryosphere: Physical Properties and Processes, and Remote Sensing Chairs: David Babb and Ryan Galley Room: 302 B 10:30

Jack Landy

Utilizing ICESat and Cryosat-2 altimeter data to predict the albedo of Arctic sea ice during summer

10:45

Ellsworth LeDrew

Wavelet decomposition of sea ice trends in the Beaufort Sea and Eastern Canadian Arctic or why is the polar ice disappearing?

11:00

David Babb

Multiyear sea ice loss in the Beaufort Sea: Melt, transport and the transition towards a seasonal ice cover

11:15

Ed Ross

High-resolution ice response to wind forcing in the continental margin of the Canadian Beaufort Sea

11:30

Yanique Campbell

Effect of a storm during the sea ice minimum extent

NAV08. Arctic Geopolitics and Security

Chairs: Kristin Bartenstein and Daniel-Erasmus Khan Room: 303 A 10:30

Pauline Pic

Arctic security: A shifting paradigm

10:45

Olga Alexeeva and Frédéric Lasserre

The ongoing but uneasy Sino-Russian cooperation in the Arctic in the BRI era

11:00

Cara Thuringer

Unconstrained foreign direct investment: An emerging challenge to Arctic security

11:15

Julie Babin

Japan’s official Arctic policy, which evolutions and opportunities for the Japanese business companies in the Arctic region?

11:30

Pierre-Louis Têtu

Chinese mining activities in the Arctic: Beyond paradoxes and misperceptions

11:45

Kristin Bartenstein and Daniel-Erasmus Khan

Half In and Half Out: The End of a Long and Winding Road? – New Dynamics for the European Union’s Arctic Ambitions: A German and a Canadian Perspective

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WEDNESDAY, 13 DECEMBER - 10:30 TO 12:00 (CONTINUED) CBIK05 - II. Strong Research Communities – Research Developed for and by the North Chairs: David Scott and Amos Hayes Room: 303 B 10:30

Megan Sheramata and Perty Tookalook

Inuit knowledge of environmental change over the past 50 years in eastern Hudson Bay: Observations from Umiujaq and Kuujjuaraapik, Nunavik

10:45

Pamela Wong

Working with Indigenous Northern communities at the intersection of maps, data, traditional knowledge, and the web

11:00

Timothy Anaviapik Soucie

From Climate Change to water wealth and health: Inuit researchers advancing monitoring capacity for Arctic water systems in Nunavut

11:15

Neil Hutchinson

Water quality monitoring on Baker Lake: Pairing western science data collection and analysis with Traditional Ecological Knowledge

11:30

Matt Wallace

Northern-based solutions to Arctic community concerns: Science and Clean Technology development at the Canadian High Arctic Research Station

HUM02 - I. Contaminants in a Changing Arctic Chairs: Jason Stow and Simon Wilson Room: 304 AB 10:30

Mélanie Lemire

Exposure to food chain contaminants in Nunavik : evaluating spatial and time trends among pregnant women & implementing effective health communication for healthy pregnancies and children

10:45

Matthew Little

Selenium, selenoneine, and methylmercury in marine mammal country foods and Inuit adults: Novel results from Nunavik

11:00

Cecile de Serigny

Can migratory birds become contaminated with lead during their migration out of Nunavik ? A literature review to address concerns raised by Nunavimmiut

11:15

Catherine Girard

The Inuit gut microbiome: Dietary transition and mercury metabolism

WEDNESDAY, 13 DECEMBER - 13:30 TO 15:00 ECO10 - II. Climate Change Impacts on Arctic Freshwater Systems Chairs: Igor Lehnher and Alain Rousseau Room: 202 13:30

Biljana Narancic

Comparison of paleotemperature reconstructions based on the assemblage composition and oxygen isotope ratios of sedimentary diatoms

14:00

Vaughn Mangal

Dissolved organic matter in Subarctic environments: Revealing molecular changes along the Churchill River and surrounding watershed

14:15

Maxime Wauthy

Carbon composition of dissolved organic matter and zooplankton in circumpolar ponds

14:30

Pieter Aukes

How measures of dissolved organic matter quality change from Yellowknife, NT, to Lake Hazen, NU

14:45

Guillaume Grosbois

Understanding food webs in Arctic lakes: Production and transfer of essential fatty acids from plankton to fish

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WEDNESDAY, 13 DECEMBER - 13:30 TO 15:00 (CONTINUED) MON06 - II. Monitoring, Modeling and Predicting Arctic Biodiversity Chairs: Dominique Berteaux and Pascale Ropars Room: 203 13:30

Johann Wagner

Establishing CHARS as an Arctic flagship research and monitoring site – Summary of work to date, science framework and 2018 implementation plans

13:45

Katriina O'Kane

The importance of local research in community ecology: A case study of vegetation succession in the High Arctic

14:00

Cory Wallace

The influence of Alnus viridis shrub patches on understory vegetation community composition in the low-Arctic of the Northwest Territories

14:15

Jennifer Baltzer

A global assessment of drivers of post-fire regeneration in boreal forests

14:30

Sylvain Christin

Impact of climatic perturbations on the phenology of arctic birds: The bioacoustic way

14:45

Dominique Fauteux

Evaluation of several methods to monitor lemming abundance: simple can also be good

15:00

Jay Frandsen

Monitoring Ivvavik National Park’s grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) occupancy using remote wildlife cameras

HUM01 - I. One Health in the North

Chairs: Emily Jenkins and Patrick Leighton Room: 205 BC 13:30

Anna Manore

Cryptosporidium and Giardia in clams in Iqaluit, Nunavut

13:45

Stephanie Masina

Surface water quality in Northern Canada: Examining waterborne Giardia and Cryptosporidium in Iqaluit, Nunavut

14:00

Cédric Yansouni

Enteric infections among symptomatic and asymptomatic preschool-age children in Nunavik: Interim results from a prospective cohort study

14:15

Nicholas Bachand

Toxoplasma gondii DNA detected from hunter-harvested wildlife in Nunavik

14:30

Ursula Strandberg

Walleye length and the lake from where it was caught determine how beneficial and safe it is to consume

14:45

Emily Jenkins

Food-borne parasites in harvested wildlife in the Canadian North

REG04 - II. Adapting to the Changing Arctic - Findings and Recommendations from the Three AMAP Regional Assessments Chairs: Peter Outridge and Mickael Lemay Room: 206 A 13:30

Ross Brown

Climate change in the Baffin Bay/Davis Strait Region

13:45

Thierry Rodon

Socio-economic trends for the Baffin Bay and Davis Strait region (Nunavut and Greenland)

14:00

Thierry Rodon

The challenge of education in the Baffin Bay and Davis Strait region (Greenland and Nunavut)

14:15

Thomas IngemanNielsen

Built infrastructure in the Baffin Bay/Davis Strait (BBDS) region

14:30

Knud Falk

The heart of resilience: Constructing an adaptation plan for Baffin Bay and Davis Strait - part 1, chapter 11

14:45

Clive Tesar

The heart of resilience: Constructing an adaptation plan for Baffin Bay and Davis Strait - part 2, chapter 12

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WEDNESDAY, 13 DECEMBER - 13:30 TO 15:00 (CONTINUED) ECO02 - I. Arctic Marine Primary Producers: The Green Edge Project - Implications of Changing Spring Bloom Dynamics on the Arctic Ecosystem Chairs: Marcel Babin, C.J. Mundy and Jean-Éric Tremblay Room: 301 A 13:30

Marcel Babin

Overview on the Green Edge project – Phytoplankton spring bloom in the Arctic Ocean : past, present and future response to climate variations, and impact on carbon fluxes and the marine food web

13:45

Julien Laliberte

Variations of different environmental components and their impact on light availability for phytoplankton at the Green Edge Site

14:00

Lisa Matthes

Characterization of the under-ice light field and availability of photosynthetically active radiation during a sea ice spring melt progression

14:15

Pierre-Luc Grondin

Melting snow: Unveiling phytoplankton spring blooms

14:30

Virginie Galindo

Differences in production regimes of simulated under-ice blooms during Arctic spring

14:45

Johann Lavaud

Photophysiological response of bottom-ice microalgal community during spring to summer transition in the Arctic

COA06 - I. Coastal Processes and the Vulnerability of Communities, Resources and Ecosystems Chairs: Dustin Whalen and Hugues Lantuit Room: 301 B 13:30

George Tanski

Permafrost coasts and its nearshore zone rapidly release greenhouse gases

13:45

Ravi Darwin Sankar

The impacts of amplified warming and reduced sea-ice on shoreline variance: A case study from Paulatuk, Canada

14:00

Antoine Boisson

Emerging coasts of the northwestern Nunavik: characterization, evolution model and implications

14:15

Hugues Lantuit

Nunataryuk: Permafrost thaw and the changing Arctic coast - science for socio-economic adaptation

14:30

Robert Way

Characteristics and evolution of coastal peatland permafrost in southeastern Labrador, Canada

14:45

Matthew Asplin

Synoptic climatology of storm surge events in the Western Canadian Arctic

ECO12 - II. Pagophilia in a World Without Ice: Ecology of Ice-Associated Wildlife in the 21st Century Chairs: Kyle Elliott, George Divoky and Christophe Barbraud Room: 302 A 13:30

Ellen Lea

Sea ice, body condition and reproduction in ringed seals in Canada’s Western Arctic: An update through 2016

13:45

Stephen Insley

Seasonal patterns in acoustic detections of marine mammals near Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories

14:00

Emily Choy

Body condition affects oxygen storage capacity and calculated aerobic dive limits in Beaufort Sea beluga whales

14:15

Audrey Le Pogam

Body composition and cold endurance in snow buntings, no need to be well built to endure the cold

14:30

François Vézina

Post-migration recovery in the high Arctic: shorebirds can digest but they need to make room for food

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WEDNESDAY, 13 DECEMBER - 13:30 TO 15:00 (CONTINUED) COA02 - II. Marine Cryosphere: Physical Properties and Processes, and Remote Sensing Chairs: David Babb and Ryan Galley Room: 302 B 13:30

Thomas Zagon

Newfoundland ice conditions: The storms of March and April 2017

13:45

Matthew Ayre

Extending the summer sea ice record for Davis Straits/Baffin Bay through the 19th Century from British Arctic whaling ships’ logbooks

14:00

Jimmy Poulin

Monitoring sea ice in the vicinity of marine infrastructures in Nunavik, in a climate change context

14:15

Richard Dewey

A real-time and forecast thermodynamic sea-ice model for Cambridge Bay

14:30

Heather Kyle

Quantification of calcium carbonate (ikaite) in first– and multi–year sea ice

14:45

Margaux Gourdal

Dimethylsulfide dynamics in first year ice melt ponds in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

ECO06 - I. Marine Biodiversity Discovery in the Arctic Chairs: Philippe Archambault and Evan Edinger Room: 303 A 13:30

Philippe Archambault

Hidden and sensitive: Biodiversity and conservation of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in Arctic Canadian waters

13:45

Anais LacoursiereRoussel

eDNA metabarcoding as a new surveillance tool for coastal Arctic biodiversity

14:00

Dimitri Kalenitchenko

New productivity hotspots fueled by rare marine protists from the Lincoln Sea

14:15

Marie Pierrejean

The role of biogenic structures on ecosystem functioning in the Eastern Canadian Arctic

14:30

Joost Verhoeven

The microbiomes of carnivorous sponges from the Canadian Arctic suggest differential involvement of bacterial associates

14:45

Valérie Cypihot

A quest for the most functionally diverse coastal habitat of Subarctic Canada

CBIK01 - I. A Focused Look at Traditional Knowledge Integration in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region Chairs: John Lucas Jr., Larry Carpenter and Vic Gillman Room: 303 B 13:30

Mirjam Held

The many faces of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: A frame analysis

13:45

Brenda Parlee

"Telling our own story" - Lessons from 20 years of community-based monitoring in Lutsel K'e Dene first nation, Northwest Territories

14:00

Teresa Scassa

Towards a legal framework for the collection and sharing of Inuit knowledge

14:15

Jennifer Smith

Integration of Inuvialuit traditional knowledge of polar bear into management and decision-making

14:30

Pamela Wong

Inuit perspectives of polar bear research: Lessons for community-based collaborations

14:45

Brian Zytaruk

The use of TK in management of issues related to the development of the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk Highway

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WEDNESDAY, 13 DECEMBER - 13:30 TO 15:00 (CONTINUED) HUM02 - II. Contaminants in a Changing Arctic Chairs: Jason Stow and Simon Wilson Room: 304 AB 13:30

Feiyue Wang

Mercury contamination in the Canadian Arctic marine ecosystems: How long will it take to recover?

13:45

Sara Pedro

Changes in forage fish communities in the eastern Canadian Arctic have a limited impact on nutritional quality of the prey base in terms of essential fatty acids, selenium, and selenium:methylmercury ratios

14:00

Igor Lehnherr

Long-term changes in atmospheric mercury as recorded in tree-rings in the Yukon and Northwest Territories

14:15

João Canário

Arsenic, cadmium and lead cycling in permafrost thaw lakes

14:30

Kyra St. Pierre

Climate drives catchment-wide changes in mercury cycling in the High Arctic's largest lake (Lake Hazen, Nunavut, Canada)

14:45

Murray Richardson

Mercury and dissolved organic carbon in eastern Canadian lakes along a 30 degree latitudinal gradient: A cross-ecosystem comparison

WEDNESDAY, 13 DECEMBER - 15:30 TO 17:00 ECO10 - III. Climate Change Impacts on Arctic Freshwater Systems Chairs: Igor Lehnher and Alain Rousseau Room: 202 15:30

Alain N. Rousseau

Development of a forecasting system to support hydroelectric production in Yukon: Challenges and opportunities associated with implementation of a physically-based distributed hydrological model

15:45

Jennifer Hickman

Antecedent conditions governing flow in an unregulated arctic watershed and implications for hydroelectric power generation in the Northwest Territories

16:00

Jos Samuel

Evaluation of hydrologic data assimilation and real-time meteorological data to improve flow forecasts

16:15

Casey Remmer

Spatial and temporal approaches for monitoring the effect of changes in climate and flooding on hydrolimnological conditions across a northern freshwater delta

16:30

Gabriel ChiassonPoirier

Linking dominant physical controls on subsurface flow patterns with spatial extent of hydrological connectivity during thaw period, Niaqunguk River, Iqaluit, Nunavut

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WEDNESDAY, 13 DECEMBER - 15:30 TO 17:00 (CONTINUED) COA07 - II. Atmospheric Processes and Interfaces in the Arctic Chairs: Kaley A. Walker, Emma Mungall and Oleksandr Huziy Room: 203 15:30

Wesley Skeeter

Growing season carbon balance of a Mackenzie River Delta Peatland

15:45

Maria Belke-Brea

Shrub-induced modification of the grain size of the surface snow layer in fall and the resulting impact on albedo

16:00

Florent Domine

Snow-climate-vegetation-permafrost feedbacks and the prediction of permafrost thaw

16:15

Philip Marsh

The Arctic Snow Cover: Integrating high resolution field observations and modelling in order to improve our understanding of past and future changes

16:30

Ally Toure

Quantifying Snow Accumulations Across an Arctic Shrub-tundra Landscape

16:45

Keegan Smith

Estimating the end-of-winter snow accumulation from field measurements and modeling over four years at Iqaluit, Nunavut

HUM01 - II. One Health in the North

Chairs: Emily Jenkins and Patrick Leighton Room: 205 BC 15:30

André Ravel

Complexity of rabies and other health issues at the human-dog-wildlife interface in Nunavik: A great challenge for the One Health concept!

15:45

Stacey Elmore

Evidence for long-term survival of arctic foxes following rabies exposure

16:00

Julie Ducrocq

Can humans develop passive immunity against rabies ? Investigating this hypothesis amongst an Inuit population from Nunavik with a history of hunting and manipulating terrestrial mammals

16:15

Tessa Baker

The provision of annual subsidized veterinary services in five remote communities in the Northwest Territories from 2008-2017: Uptake, impact, and lessons learned

16:30

Alexandra Sawatzky

Integrated environment and health surveillance in the Circumpolar North: A systematic realist review of the literature

16:45

Kiley Daley

Assessing exposure pathways and human health risks attributable to wastewater treatment practices in the Canadian Arctic

REG04 - III. Adapting to the Changing Arctic - Findings and Recommendations from the Three AMAP Regional Assessments Chair: Anders Mosbech Room: 206 A

Panel Strengths and challenges of the recent Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic (AACA) assessments 15:30 to 16:45

Panelists Knud Falk (Sweden) Nathia Hass Brandtberg (Greenland) Don Lemmen (Canada) Larry Hinzman (USA) Laverna Klengenberg (Canada)

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WEDNESDAY, 13 DECEMBER - 15:30 TO 17:00 (CONTINUED) ECO02 - II. Arctic Marine Primary Producers: The Green Edge Project - Implications of Changing Spring Bloom Dynamics on the Arctic Ecosystem Chairs: Marcel Babin, C.J. Mundy and Jean-Éric Tremblay Room: 301 A 15:30

Aude Leynaert

Diatom in the ice : Key actor in the Si cycle ?

15:45

Brent Else

Response of the Arctic marine inorganic carbon system to ice algae and under-ice phytoplankton blooms: A case study along the fast-ice edge of Baffin Bay

16:00

Rémi Amiraux

Exacerbation of stress in algae and their attached bacteria in Arctic zones: Why? and consequences?

16:15

Philippe Massicotte

Toward a new method to estimate underwater light regime under spatially heterogeneous surface environments in the Arctic

16:30

Eric Rehm

Bio-optical observations from the Marginal Ice Zone in Baffin Bay using autonomous platforms

16:45

Audrey Limoges

Changes in diatom productivity and sea-surface conditions in the North Water polynya during the past ca. 3750 years

COA06 - II. Coastal Processes and the Vulnerability of Communities, Resources and Ecosystems Chairs: Dustin Whalen and Hugues Lantuit Room: 301 B 15:30

Alice Bradley

A remote sensing approach for estimating sea ice concentration in coastal pixels

15:45

Ron Vincent

Arctic dust clouds: An investigation of aerosols in the Western Canadian Arctic using satellite imagery

16:00

Tamar Richards

Effects of humidity on the settling rate of icelandic dust

16:15

Caroline Coch

Summer rainfall impacts on sediment, solute and DOC fluxes in a small Arctic coastal catchment

16:30

Jacqueline Hung

Spatial and temporal patterns of soil nitrogen availability and carbon exchange in a High Arctic wetland

16:45

Dustin Whalen

Monitoring, understanding and predicting coastal change in the Mackenzie-Beaufort Region, NT

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WEDNESDAY, 13 DECEMBER - 15:30 TO 17:00 (CONTINUED) MON02. Arctic Marine Autonomous Research Platforms and Robotics Applications Chairs: Nick Burchill and Asgeir Johan Sørensen Room: 302 B 15:30

Ryan Flagg

Building and operating permanent Arctic Observing Systems

15:45

Lisbeth Iversen

INTAROS: Integrated Arctic observation system development under Horizon 2020

16:00

Martina Loebl

Arctic Observatory FRAM

16:15

Shannon Nudds

Our eyes and ears on the Northwest Passage: DFO's monitoring and real-time observatory in Barrow Strait

16:30

Asgeir J. Sørensen

Arctic operational experience with marine robotics for environmental mapping of seabed, water column and under ice

ECO06 - II. Marine Biodiversity Discovery in the Arctic Chairs: Philippe Archambault and Evan Edinger Room: 303 A 15:30

Evan Edinger

Arctic bamboo coral forests as millennium-scale ecosystem engineers

15:45

Erin Herder

Assessing spatial and temporal change in benthic biodiversity over 50 years in Frobisher Bay

16:00

Michelle Brandt

Nearshore seabed habitats and benthic biodiversity, Arctic Bay, Nunavut

16:15

Curtis Dinn

The hidden biodiversity of sponges in the Eastern Canadian Arctic - improving our understanding of benthic communities through targeted sampling

16:30

Brian Lanoil

Upside down you turn me: Differential shift in the composition of bacterial communities from seasonal and perennial sea ice exposed to in-situ disturbance

16:45

Francine Mercier

The proposed Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine Conservation Area in Lancaster Sound, Eastern Canadian Arctic. How did we get there and what does it mean for the future?

17:00

Martine Giangioppi

Marine ecological conservation for the Canadian Eastern Arctic: A science-based proposal for priority areas and networks

CBIK01 - II. A Focused Look at Traditional Knowledge Integration in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region Chairs: John Lucas Jr., Larry Carpenter and Vic Gillman Room: 303 B 15:30

Kathleen Snow

The Inuvialuit settlement region beluga summit: Setting an empowered stage for community traditional knowledge sharing

15:45

Devin Waugh

Inuvialuit Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) of beluga whale (Delphinaterus leucas) in a changing climate in Tuktoyaktuk, NT

16:00

Peter Collings

Inuit conceptions of “knowledge” and “ecological knowledge” about beluga whales in Ulukhaktok, NT, Canada

16:15

Jacqueline Chapman

TSFN harvest study : Characterizing economic, social, and biological factors that influence harvest practices to ensure responsible fisheries development in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut

16:30

Jasmine Brewster

Working together to monitor and manage Western Arctic marine protected areas

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WEDNESDAY, 13 DECEMBER - 15:30 TO 17:00 (CONTINUED) HUM02 - III. Contaminants in a Changing Arctic Chairs: Jason Stow and Simon Wilson Room: 304 AB 15:30

Robert Letcher

An assessment of the biological effects of organohalogen and mercury exposure in Arctic wildlife and fish

15:45

Jennifer Balmer

Current use pesticides of emerging Arctic concern: An updated assessment

16:00

Derek Muir

Influence of permafrost disturbances and climate change on temporal series of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides and perfluoroalkyl substances in Arctic Char

16:15

Jennifer Provencher

Plastics as a vector of contaminants into Arctic food webs

16:30

Gwyneth Anne MacMillan

Not so rare after all: Rare earth elements in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems in the eastern Canadian Arctic

16:45

Ashley Gaden

When you wish upon a (sea) star: Investigating hydrocarbon baselines and bioaccumulation in Baffin Bay

17:00

James Telford

Using paleolimnology to establish baseline conditions and trends for contaminants and climate for a community-based aquatic ecosystem monitoring program, Marian Watershed, NWT

THURSDAY, 14 DECEMBER - 10:30 TO 12:00 ECO03 - I. From Zooplankton to Fisheries: Arctic Marine Food Webs in Seasonally Ice-Covered Seas Chairs: Louis Fortier, Gérald Darnis and Frédéric Maps Room: 202 10:30

Nadja Steiner

Climate change impacts on subsistence fisheries in the Western Canadian Arctic – a case study

11:00

Victoria Peck

Assessing the sensitivity of pteropods to under-saturated carbonate regimes within the Canadian Arctic

11:15

Mathieu LeBlanc

The North Water polynya: A true biological hotspot for polar cod Boreogadus saida recruitment?

11:30

Denis Roy

Local adaptation without reproductive isolation in Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides): A circumpolar commercial fish species with a reset button

11:45

Marie Guilpin

Krill density requirements and foraging efficiency of Northwest Atlantic blue whales foraging in the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada

10:45

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THURSDAY, 14 DECEMBER - 10:30 TO 12:00 (CONTINUED) MON04 - I. Advancing Data Sharing, Access, and Analysis for Understanding the Arctic Chairs: Julie Friddell and Shannon Christoffersen Vossepoel Room: 203 10:30

Shannon Christoffersen Vossepoel

The Canadian consortium for Arctic data interoperability: An initiative for facilitating Canadian Arctic data sharing and analysis

10:45

Sarah Forté

Challenges with historical water quality data for Inuu’tuti, a collaborative cumulative effects monitoring program in the Baker Lake watershed

11:00

Jan Holstein

Announcing a Panarctic Biodiversity Data Warehouse for open access and exploration of biodiverdity data

11:15

Jeff Saarela

Realizing the potential of Arctic botanical specimens at the Canadian Museum of Nature: Liberating biodiversity data from cabinets, and (finally) putting it to work

11:30

Julia Boike

A 20-year record (1998-2017) of permafrost, active layer, and meteorological conditions at a High Arctic permafrost research site (Bayelva, Spitsbergen): An opportunity to validate remote sensing data and land surface, snow, and permafrost models

HUM04 - I. Arctic Housing and Community Planning Chairs: Mylène Riva and Geneviève Vachon Room: 205 BC 10:30

Katherine Kovalcik

Architectural lessons on foundation building in Van Tat Gwich’in territory: Foundation typologies constructed within this continuous permafrost region and their reciprocal relationships with people, buildings, and the land

10:45

Myriam Blais

Vagabond, nomadic house (imagination + construction + experience)

11:00

Sami Tannoury

Housing design for the Inuit Nunangat communities, a two tier approach: Fast paced (address the housing shortage crisis) and slow paced (research and develop sustainable housing solutions)

11:15

Alain Fournier

Inuit Quajimajatuqangit: How involvement of the community of Ikaluktitiak (Cambridge Bay), Nunavut, was key in helping generate the architectural design of the Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS)

11:30

Julien Landry and Laurence St-Jean

Imagining Inukjuak's future development, a review of Northern planning issues and strategies

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THURSDAY, 14 DECEMBER - 10:30 TO 12:00 (CONTINUED) REG02 - I. TUKISIK - Understanding Nunavik: Collaboration Between Researchers and Local Residents Committed to the Study of the Arctic Socio-Ecological System Chairs: Najat Bhiry, Armelle Decaulne and Laine Chanteloup Room: 206 A 10:30

Sylvie Blangy and Monique Bernier

TUKISIK (OHMI-Nunavik): Understanding together the socio-ecological system in Nunavik

10:45

Annie Lamalice

Planting seeds in Nunavik: citizen-science conversation on the future of agriculture for Northern food sovereignty

11:00

P. Piche

On the way to developing Northern greenhouses adapted to population and climate: Energy issues

11:15

André Ravel

A participatory multicriteria decision analysis to mitigate the entangled complex dog-related human health issues in Nunavik

11:30

Elsa Cencig

Pujjunaq: Archaeology and History Project

11:45

Héloïse Barbel

The geoarchaeology of Thule winter dwellings: The taphonomy of a subterranean pit house in a periglacial valley, noting human impact on soil microstratigraphy and chemistry

NAV01 - I. Access and Use of Weather, Water, Ice and Climate Information for Safe Arctic Navigation Chairs: Gita Ljubicic and Jackie Dawson Room: 301 A 10:30

Rebecca Segal

Combining remote sensing and community sea ice information to inform safe travel in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut, Western Canadian Arctic

10:45

Olivier Ayotte

Seaplane Bathymetric Platform

11:00

Claude Comtois

Weather constraints on ships serving coastal settlements in Nunavik, 1993 to 2016

11:15

Natasha Simonee and Jayko Alooloo

Equipping northern communities with accessible, understandable, real-time weather and wave information

ECO04 - III. Studying Trophic Interactions in Arctic Ecosystems Chairs: Jennifer Provencher and David Yurkowski Room: 301 B 10:30

Laurent Montagano

Free meals for Arctic-nesting shorebirds : can increased productivity lead to positive effects on Arcticnesting shorebirds?

10:45

Michaël Bonin

Assessing the contribution of migratory caribou to the diet of gray wolves and black bears in northern Quebec and Labrador using stable isotopes

11:00

Nicolas Lecomte

Spatial variation in arctic hare populations and arctic wolves diet at their northern range limit

11:15

Guillaume SlevanTremblay

Impact of lemming grazing on Arctic willows under experimentally reduced predation

11:30

Claire-Cécile Juhasz

Direct and indirect effects of climate on a simplified trophic network in the Arctic tundra

11:45

Mathieu Tetreault

The effect of prey abundance and nestling demand on the foraging patterns of Arctic-breeding peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus tundrius)

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THURSDAY, 14 DECEMBER - 10:30 TO 12:00 (CONTINUED) COA04 - I. Periglacial Landscapes, Geocryology and Permafrost Chairs: Michel Paquette, Daniel Fortier and Scott Lamoureux Room: 302 A 10:30

Ashley Rudy

Landscape sensitivity to thermokarst in Western Canada

10:45

Gonçalo Vieira

Multiscale remote sensing of Sub-Arctic thaw ponds in Eastern Hudson Bay

11:00

Samuel Gagnon

Climate change and ecological interactions affecting permafrost temperature regime and ice-wedge activity in the Narsajuaq river valley, Nunavik, Canada

11:15

Michel Paquette

Landforms and snowbank hydrology in the High Arctic: Snow redistribution shapes polar desert landscapes

11:30

Jeff Warburton

The morphology of active layer detachment slides and spatial variations in slope process regimes in the High Arctic

MON05 - I. Arctic Remote Sensing: Improving Arctic Monitoring of Sea Ice, Snow, Glaciers and Permafrost for Wildlife Preservation Chairs: Benoit Montpetit, Alexandre Langlois and Ludovic Brucker Room: 302 B 10:30

Stefan Muckenhuber

Sea ice drift from Sentinel-1 SAR imagery

10:45

Jakob Assmann

Drone imagery reveals scale mismatch between satellite-observed tundra greenness and on-the-ground vegetation monitoring

11:00

Frederic Grandmont

Enabling capacities from optical sensors deployed on highly elliptical orbit over the poles

11:15

Mathieu Monfette

Inland water quality and community monitoring by means of optical remote sensing data. Application in an Arctic river basin (George River, Nunavik, Canada)

ECO13. Arctic Tundra and Vegetation Chair: Paul Sokoloff Room: 303 A 10:30

Paul Sokoloff

The flora of High Arctic research stations: new collections to monitor long-term change

10:45

Haydn Thomas

Changes in plant functional traits across a warming tundra biome: Linking vegetation change to ecosystem function

11:00

Zoe Panchen

Measuring Arctic plant phenological responses to climate change by substituting an elevation gradient as a proxy for rising temperatures

11:15

Ulrike Herzschuh

Slow treeline response to warming in Northern Siberia: past, present, future

11:30

Anastasia Sniderhan

Treeline to treeline: Latitudinal variability of black spruce growth dynamics in northwestern Canada

11:45

Jennifer Baltzer

Topography determines green alder functional traits and water potential but not sap flow on the low arctic tundra, NT

12:00

Trevor Lantz

Recent increases in white spruce density (1980 and 2016) across treeline in the Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, NWT

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THURSDAY, 14 DECEMBER - 10:30 TO 12:00 (CONTINUED) CBIK09 – The Arctic Inspiration Prize: Celebrating Northern Excellence and Innovation Chair: Michel Allard Room: 303 B 10:30

Kevin Kablutsiak

The Arctic Inspiration Prize: encouraging, enabling and celebrating the achievements of Northerners

10:45

Eric Solomon

Bridging barriers to Inuit youth engagement in locally relevant science and research

11:00

Lynne McCurdy

Improving the lives of children with hearing loss in Nunavut by focusing on better hearing at school

11:15

Trevor Bell

SmartICE: Expanding sea ice monitoring and information services across the Arctic

11:30

Heather Ochalski and S. Smiler

The national strategy on Inuit education: National parent engagement initiative 2013 Arctic Inspiration Prize Laureate Presentation

HUM03 - I. Food Security in the Arctic - From Understanding to Action Chairs: Chris Furgal, James Ford and Kristeen McTavish Room: 304 AB 10:30

Noémie BoulangerLapointe

Berries and berry picking in Inuit Nunangat: Traditions in a changing landscape

10:45

Audrey PicardLafond

Fluorescent sensor for on-site monitoring of food quality in Northern environment

11:00

Shari Fox Gearheard

The role of community programs in food security: A case study of Ilisaqsivik Society in Clyde River, Nunavut

11:15

Andrew Spring

Learning from the past to deal with the future: Building community capitals through knowledge to ensure food security in the Tsá Tué Biosphere Reserve

11:30

Chris Furgal

The importance of scale in understanding and addressing Arctic food security

11:45

Kristeen McTavish

Moving from results to action on food security in Nunatasiavut

THURSDAY, 14 DECEMBER - 13:30 TO 15:00 ECO03 - II. From Zooplankton to Fisheries: Arctic Marine Food Webs in Seasonally Ice-Covered Seas Chairs: Louis Fortier, Gérald Darnis and Frédéric Maps Room: 202 13:30

Laurie Emma Cope

Seasonal and interannual variations of somatic growth and reproduction driven by environmental conditions on a sub-arctic krill species Thysanoessa raschii in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

13:45

Carin Ashjian

Formation and persistence of a bowhead whale feeding hotspot (krill trap) near Utqiaġvik/Barrow Alaska

14:00

Gérald Darnis

Mapping zooplankton distribution in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago using the ArcticNet zooplankton database: 2005-2016

14:15

Rubao Ji

Response of Calanus biogeographic boundaries to climate forcing in the Arctic Ocean

14:30

Caroline Bouchard

Larval and adult fish assemblages along the Northwest Passage : The shallow Kitikmeot as a potential zoogeographic barrier

14:45

Maxime Geoffroy

Northward range expansion of boreal species into the Arctic: Further evidences from the polar night

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THURSDAY, 14 DECEMBER - 13:30 TO 15:00 (CONTINUED) MON04 - II. Advancing Data Sharing, Access, and Analysis for Understanding the Arctic Chairs: Julie Friddell and Shannon Christoffersen Vossepoel Room: 203 13:30

David Arthurs

Polar Thematic Exploitation Platform (Polar TEP)

13:45

William Woodley

Northwest Territories Centre for Geomatics: Facilitating data sharing and access

14:00

Christine Barnard

Arctic data archiving and dissemination: Development of the environmental data repository Nordicana D

14:15

Sonia Trentin

Federal Geospatial Platform – Collaborating in making Canadian Open Geospatial Data accessible on the Web

14:30

Julie Friddell

Increasing access to polar data through visualization, collaboration, and policy

HUM04 - II. Arctic Housing and Community Planning Chairs: Mylène Riva and Geneviève Vachon Room: 205 BC 13:30

Cate Soroczan

Northern housing - energy efficient design vs "as occupied" energy use

13:45

Nelson Pisco

Standing strong: How standards help reduce the vulnerability of Arctic infrastructure and support climate resilient community planning

14:00

Marie Baron

Housing and community factors associated with healthy aging in Inuit communities in Canada

14:15

Camille Pepin

Household overcrowding and psychological distress among Nunavik Inuit adolescents: a longitudinal study

14:30

Mylène Riva and Karine Perreault

Moving to a new house in Nunavik and Nunavut: Assessing the impacts on changes in housing conditions, health, and well-being

REG02 - II. TUKISIK - Understanding Nunavik: Collaboration Between Researchers and Local Residents Committed to the Study of the Arctic Socio-Ecological System Chairs: Najat Bhiry, Armelle Decaulne and Laine Chanteloup Room: 206 A 13:30

José Gérin-Lajoie and Hilda Snowball

Academic and community perspectives in a collaborative environmental monitoring program in the George River watershed, Nunavik, Canada

13:45

Guillaume Proulx

The Parc national des Pingualuit: A look over the first Nunavik National Park and its impact on the Kangiqsujuaq community

14:00

Laine Chanteloup

Sharing Nuna and Istchee – Sharing the Views of Youth through Short Films

14:15

Armelle Decaulne

357 observation days on Caribou slope, Lac à l’Eau-Claire, Nunavik

14:30

Najat Bhiry

Development of a small peatland linked to slope dynamics at Wiyasakami Lake (Nunavik)

14:45

Monique Bernier

Sea-ice research for Arctic resource development and Northern communities at Deception Bay, Nunavik

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THURSDAY, 14 DECEMBER - 13:30 TO 15:00 (CONTINUED) NAV01 - II. Access and Use of Weather, Water, Ice and Climate Information for Safe Arctic Navigation Chairs: Gita Ljubicic and Jackie Dawson Room: 301 A 13:30

Laura EerkesMedrano

Dangerous weather and sea ice and marine shipping: comparing the Northwest passage and the Gulf of Bothnia

13:45

Machiel Lamers

SALIENSEAS: Enhancing the saliency of weather and sea ice services for marine mobility sectors in European Arctic seas

14:00

Andrew Arreak

SmartICE: A sea-ice monitoring and information service by communities for communities

14:15

Katherine Wilson

Canadian Ice Service Pilot Project: Ice Information for Northern Emergency Management

14:30

David Arthurs

Polar Code Decision Support System

ECO14 - I. Arctic Wildlife

Chairs: Barbara Vuillaume, Patricia Nash and Cameron Eckert Room: 301 B 13:30

Bronwyn Harkness

An assessment of population genomic structure in black guillemots (Cepphus grylle) in North America

13:45

Don-Jean LéandriBreton

Can predation affect distribution? Arctic-breeding plovers with broader distribution range nest in safer habitat

14:00

Deborah Jenkins

Population structure of caribou in an ice-bound archipelago

14:15

Marianne Gagnon

Global heterozygosity positively impact body mass in migratory caribou

14:30

Barbara Vuillaume

Environmental determinants of survival in migratory tundra caribou

14:45

Erin Prewer

Genomic Insights into Ovibos Moschatus (Muskox)

COA04 - II. Periglacial Landscapes, Geocryology and Permafrost Chairs: Michel Paquette, Daniel Fortier and Scott Lamoureux Room: 302 A 13:30

Julien Lebrun

Slope processes and their impact on human infrastructures since AD 1000 in Northeast Iceland

13:45

Jean Holloway

Persistence of permafrost after 55 years of climatic warming and fire disturbance in the sporadic discontinuous zone

14:00

Niels Weiss

Periglacial geomorphology and the permafrost carbon climate feedback

14:15

Paul Overduin

Near-shore permafrost in the Siberia: estimating the rate of subsea permafrost degradation

14:30

João Canário

Impact of permafrost melting in subarctic region on the Hg cycling in thermokarst pond

14:45

Samuel Stettner

What is the intra-seasonal dynamic of rapid ice-rich permafrost degradation? High spatiotemporal resolution SAR remote sensing introduces new temporal scales in studies of riverbanks in the Lena Delta

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THURSDAY, 14 DECEMBER - 13:30 TO 15:00 (CONTINUED) MON05 - II. Arctic Remote Sensing: Improving Arctic Monitoring of Sea Ice, Snow, Glaciers and Permafrost for Wildlife Preservation Chairs: Benoit Montpetit, Alexandre Langlois and Ludovic Brucker Room: 302 B 13:30

Sabrina Marx

Terrestrial laser scanning for quantifying small-scale vertical movements of the ground surface in Arctic permafrost regions

13:45

Achim Roth

Freeze and Thaw Monitoring of Lake Ice with SAR time series for the winter season 2002/03 (ENVISAT ASAR) and 2015/16 (S1A) in Northern Finland

14:00

Ivan Sudakov

The geometry and statistics of tundra lakes observed in historical maps and satellite images

14:15

Alison Beamish

Low Arctic vegetation classification using aerial hyperspectral data in the late season

14:30

Andrew Cunliffe

Monitoring Arctic changes with drones

INT01. International Arctic Science Cooperation Chairs: David Scott and Nicole Biebow Room: 303 A 13:30

Katherine Wilson

Implementation of a Pan-Arctic Polar Regional Climate Centre

13:45

Nicole Biebow

The EU Arctic Cluster – Implementing the European Arctic Policy and fostering international cooperation

14:00

Marta Terrado

APPLICATE: a project within the EU Arctic cluster for advanced prediction in Polar regions and beyond

14:15

Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen

ISAAFFIK - The Arctic Gateway: Facilitating Arctic scientific collaboration

14:30

Volker Rachold

The German Arctic Office - Knowledge transfer and information exchange for future-oriented and sustainable Arctic decision making in an Arctic Council observer country

14:45

Henry Burgess

The UK Arctic office and strengthening UK-Canada research connections: Role, achievements and opportunities

CBIK04 - I. Co-Producing Knowledge of Wildlife Important for Subsistence in a Changing Climate Chairs: Sonja Ostertag, Lisa Loseto and Tristan Pearce Room: 303 B 13:30

Catherine Alexandra Gagnon

Linking climate, caribou and indigenous knowledge about meeting needs in Northwestern Canada

13:45

Gita Ljubicic

Inuit knowledge of caribou on and near King William Island, Nunavut: An island overlooked no more

14:00

Sonja Ostertag

“That’s how we know they’re healthy”: The inclusion of Indigenous knowledge in beluga health monitoring in the Inuvialuit settlement region

14:15

Kathleen MacMillan

Beluga Whale Body Condition Indicators: Application for use in marine protected areas

14:30

Elizabeth Worden

Changing Human-Beluga Relations and Subsistence Hunting in Aklavik, NT

14:45

Peter Collings

Technological adaptation and traditional ecological knowledge about beluga whales in Ulukhaktok, NT, Canada

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THURSDAY, 14 DECEMBER - 13:30 TO 15:00 (CONTINUED) HUM03 - II. Food Security in the Arctic - From Understanding to Action Chairs: Chris Furgal, James Ford and Kristeen McTavish Room: 304 AB 13:30

Léa Laflamme and Eric Loring

The Nuluaq Project – Mapping Inuit Community-Based Food Security Initiatives

13:45

Crystle Michelin and Juliana Flowers

NiKigijavut Nunatsiavutinni-Working to Improve Food Security

14:00

Sonia Wesche and Jullian MacLean

Addressing food security governance in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (Western Canadian Arctic) through a collaborative research partnership

14:15

Lindsay Thackeray

The Role of Policy in Arctic Food (In)security: An Exploratory Case Study in one Inuit region of the Canadian Arctic

14:30

Tiff-Annie Kenny

Climate change and food security in a coastal Arctic community

14:45

Build Films and Paulatuk Hunters and Trappers Committee

Short Film: The Keepers of Darnley Bay

THURSDAY, 14 DECEMBER - 15:30 TO 17:00 ECO03 - III. From Zooplankton to Fisheries: Arctic Marine Food Webs in Seasonally Ice-Covered Seas Chairs: Louis Fortier, Gérald Darnis and Frédéric Maps Room: 202 15:30

Virginia Walker

Approaches to the understanding of Arctic salmonid stock resources on and near King William Island, Nunavut

15:45

Danielle Frechette

Beating the heat: Behavioral thermoregulation by adult Atlantic salmon during up-river migration

16:00

Darcy McNicholl

Life history variation across latitudes: Observations between capelin (Mallotus villosus) from Newfoundland and the eastern Canadian Arctic

16:15

Thomas Brown

SACriFice (Sustainability of Arctic Commercial Fisheries)

COA07 - III. Atmospheric Processes and Interfaces in the Arctic Chairs: Kaley A. Walker, Emma Mungall and Oleksandr Huziy Room: 203 15:30

Scott Williamson

Reconciling Arctic and elevational amplified warming using Canada's northern climate gradients

15:45

Richard Bello

Surface energy exchange impacts on recent Hudson Bay Sea-Ice decline

16:00

Brent Else

Continuous observations of a suite of volatile organic compounds in the surface ocean and lower atmosphere of the Canadian Arctic

16:15

Pierre Fogal

The re-analysis of a historical atmospheric high resolution infrared spectral data-set for molecules involved in stratospheric ozone destruction

16:30

Alexey Tikhomirov

Measurements of stratospheric ozone using differential absorption lidar in Eureka

16:45

Emma Mungall

High gas-phase mixing ratios of formic and acetic acid in the High Arctic

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THURSDAY, 14 DECEMBER - 15:30 TO 17:00 (CONTINUED) HUM04 - III. Arctic Housing and Community Planning Chairs: Mylène Riva and Geneviève Vachon Room: 205 BC

Panel Solutions for Arctic Housing and Community Planning 15:30 to 17:00

Panelists Olivia Ikey (Qarjuit Youth Council) Mason White (Lateral Office) Kate Mitchell (Nunatsiavut Government) Jimmy Main (Nunavut Housing Corporation)

NAV05 - I. Arctic Disaster Risk Reduction Chairs: Anne Garland and Liane Benoit Room: 206 A 15:30

Anne Garland

History, goals, and facilitated research of the Arctic Risk Management Network

15:45

Craig Lingard and Benoit Plante

Closing the gaps: GSAR and incident report management in Nunavik

16:00

Dylan Clark

Constraints and opportunities for Arctic search and rescue prevention and response

16:15

Stefan Kirchner

Disaster risk reduction in Arctic cruise shipping: The human dimension

16:30

Alexandra Bernardova

The “Red phone”: Rapid response to environmental emergency alerts. An INTERACT Initiative

MON07. Advancing Statistically and Dynamically Accurate Descriptions of the Physical and Biogeochemical State of the Ocean Chairs: Dany Dumont, Fraser Davidson and Laurent Memery Room: 301 A 15:30

Hal Ritchie

The Year of Polar Prediction: Environment and Climate Change Canada's objectives and planned activities

15:45

Paul Myers

NEMO Modelling of ocean and sea-ice in the Canadian Arctic archipelago and Baffin Bay

16:00

Paul Myers

Biogeochemical modelling using NEMO and BLING

16:15

Blanche Saint-Béat

Trophic network modelling reveals contrasted pelagic ecosystems on both sides of Baffin Bay

16:30

Arnaud Pourchez

Impacts of the implementation of the diapause trait on the dynamics of plankton communities in a numeric pelagic Arctic ecosystem

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THURSDAY, 14 DECEMBER - 15:30 TO 17:00 (CONTINUED) ECO14 - II. Arctic Wildlife

Chairs: Barbara Vuillaume, Patricia Nash and Cameron Eckert Room: 301 B 15:30

Yannick Seyer

Connectivity between the Canadian Arctic and the west coast of Africa: The journey of the Long-tailed jaeger

15:45

Mael Le Corre

Habitat selection along spring and fall migration routes of caribou in Northern-Quebec and Labrador

16:00

Sabrina Plante

From avoidance of human disturbance to cumulative habitat loss for migratory caribou

16:15

Cameron Eckert

Identifying key wildlife movement corridors on Herschel Island-Qikiqtaruk Territorial Park

16:30

Brenda Parlee

No 'commons' problem here: The tragedy of 'open access' in the Bathurst and beverly caribou ranges of the Northwest Territories and Yukon

16:45

Patricia Nash

Southern Inuit of NunatuKavut polar bear management in Labrador

COA04 - III. Periglacial Landscapes, Geocryology and Permafrost Chairs: Michel Paquette, Daniel Fortier and Scott Lamoureux Room: 302 A 15:30

Justine Ramage

Carbon distribution in Thermo-erosional Valleys: A case study on Herschel Island, Canada

15:45

Roman Teisserenc

Characterization of organic carbon and trace elements fluxes within the land-ocean continuum : A 3 year monitoring of the Yenisei River

16:00

Moritz Langer

Introducing the young investigator group PermaRisk: "Simulating erosion processes in permafrost landscapes under a warming climate – a risk assessment for ecosystems and infrastructure within the Arctic"

16:15

Pavel Orekhov

Frost mounds of Belyy island in coastal marine settings of the Kara Sea

16:30

Anne-Marie LeBlanc

Local and traditional knowledge in conjunction with geoscience data to understand permafrost conditions and guide research activities, Rankin Inlet area, Nunavut

EDPOL06. From Knowledge to Action: Strategies to Enhance Connection Chairs: John Cheechoo and Shannon O'Hara Room: 302 B 15:30

Andrew Dunford and Shannon O'Hara

Iqqaumajauninga -

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Simon Dumais

The Permafrost Young Researchers Network: Supporting the next generation of permafrost young researchers and introducing PYRN-North America

16:00

Alice Bradley

Association of Polar Early Career Scientists: A model for experiential learning in professional development for students and early career researchers

16:15

Maeva Gauthier

Connecting Arctic communities: Live Streaming as a tool to connect, share and educate

16:30

Mark Stoller

Wising Up: Sharing knowledge between North and South

16:45

Amy Lauren Lovecraft

The study of arctic environmental change: Scenarios to inform science planning

Norah Foy

Short-Lived Climate Pollutants: From knowledge to action

: An Inuit Research Legacy for Inuit Nunangat

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THURSDAY, 14 DECEMBER - 15:30 TO 17:00 (CONTINUED) INT03. Arctic Cooperation in Action - the UK-Canada Arctic Partnership, 2017 Bursaries Programme: Aims, Results and Next steps Chairs: Henry Burgess and Leah Braithwaite Room: 303 A 15:30

Andrew Tanentzap

Loosening the pipes on the global carbon cycle: is fire releasing old carbon into receiving waters?

15:45

Jack Landy

Quantifying dynamic-thermodynamic interactions within melting first-year sea ice (UK-Canada Arctic Partnership 2017)

16:00

Michael Lim

Towards Arctic coastal and community resilience to permafrost cliff erosion: UK-Canada collaborations

16:15

Anne Jungblut

From the British Arctic Expedition (1875-76) to the present: Application of genomics to identify historical and modern microbiomes as sentinels of Arctic change

16:30

M. Zindorf

Opportunities and obstacles in building Arctic research collaborations: The UK-Canadian GeoMODe project

16:45

Isla Myers-Smith

Quantifying the drivers of rapid tundra vegetation change – increased productivity and permafrost thaw

CBIK03. Arctic Change from Indigenous Perspectives Chairs: Andrew Arreak and Trevor Bell Room: 303 B 15:30

Gabriel Nirlungayuk

Nunavut Inuit Marine Monitoring Program

15:45

Juupi Tuniq

Observations of Arctic Change from Salluit, Nunavik

16:00

Jason Dicker

Human impacts of the caribou hunting ban: Prey switching in Northern Labrador

16:15

Jon Rosales

From baby names to door frames: The surprising outcomes of posing science questions to Indigenous knowledge holders

16:30

Nathan Curry

Developing a training program for northern energy, water, food production, and resource management

16:45

Ezra Greene

Testifying lived knowledge in the Nunavut regulatory system

17:00

Sylvie Blangy

BOAZU. A sameby-driven research project investigating the cumulative impacts of environmental and social change on reindeer herding and the future for Saami youth

EDPOL01. Education, Outreach, and Communication: How Can We Make Northern Research and its Outcomes More Relevant to the People Who Live There? Chairs: Jolie Gareis and Pippa Seccombe-Hett Room: 304 AB 15:30

Nicolas Brunet

The role of environmental researchers in Inuit youth land-based learning through collaborative science literacy activities

15:45

Amy Amos

Best practices for research in northern Indigenous communities: Building effective partnerships in the Gwich’in Settlement Area

16:00

Erika Hille

Science education and outreach at the Western Arctic Research Centre, Inuvik, NT

16:15

Shirin Nuesslein

Evaluating contaminants learning-year 2: The Nunavut Arctic College Environmental Technology Program’s wildlife, contaminants and health workshop

16:30

Scott MacKenzie and Anna Stenport

Representing climate change in the Arctic: Theoretical approaches in film and media studies to big data visualization and science modeling

16:45

Ella Belfer

Representation of Indigenous peoples in climate change reporting

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FRIDAY, 15 DECEMBER - 8:30 TO 10:00 REG03. ‘Tracking Change’ - Building Local Capacity to Understand Change Chairs: Brenda Parlee and Leon Andrew Room: 202 08:30

José Gérin-Lajoie and Hilda Snowball

IMALIRIJIIT : A community-based environmental monitoring program of the George River watershed ecosystem, Nunavik

08:45

Iria Heredia

Understanding socio-ecological changes in Inuvialuit fishing livelihoods and implications for food security: The role of local and traditional knowledge

09:00

Chelsea Martin

The importance of traditional knowledge for maintaining fishing livelihoods during times of change in the Sahtú Region

09:15

Tracey Proverbs

Socioecological change, access to fish, and individual well-being in Gwich'in communities

09:30

Joella Hogan

Building capacity for stewardship of the peel river watershed: Tracking change of fish stocks by Nacho Nayak Dun first nation

09:45

Jason Ernst

Improving the connectivity of Rigolet using the Inuit-led eNuk application and wireless Mesh Technologies

10:00

Neal Spicer

“Nothing is safe anymore” - risk perceptions of drinking water

HUM07. Human Health, Well-being and Adaptation Chairs: Pierre Ayotte and David Goldfarb Room: 205 BC 08:30

Mylène Riva, Melody Lynch and Christopher Fletcher

Integrating Inuit community perspectives in the ‘Community Component’ of the Qanuilirpitaa? 2017 Nunavik Health Survey

08:45

Elizabeth Serra

Results of the multi-site Nunavut Acute Childhood Gastroenteritis Surveillance Project

09:00

David Goldfarb

Impact of implementation of in-territory molecular testing for gastrointestinal pathogens at the Qikiqtani General Hospital, Nunavut

09:15

Emad Tahir

Characteristics of anemia and iron status and their associations with blood manganese and lead among children aged from 3 to 19 years old from four northern First Nation communities in Quebec

09:30

Sylvia Doody

Our land, our air: TB free together campaign

09:45

Yana Korneeva

The psychological safety model of oil and gas workers in the Arctic

NAV05 - II. Arctic Disaster Risk Reduction Chairs: Anne Garland and Liane Benoit Room: 206 A 08:30

Liane Benoit

A risk-based approach to agriculture in Nunavik

08:45

Anuszka Maton

"I have a question for you, being the scientist that you are" - A case study of insider/outsider relations in disaster risk reduction in Utqiaġvik, Alaska

09:00

Ed Zebedee

Catastrophic power failure in a remote Arctic community – What have we learned?

09:15

Arshad Khan

Flooding hazard and remote first nation communities: The case of Kashechewan, Northern Ontario

09:30

Anne Garland

Historical Ecology for Risk Management: Coastal Observers of Barrow Community Based Monitoring

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FRIDAY, 15 DECEMBER - 8:30 TO 10:00 (CONTINUED) MON08. Climate Information for a Changing Arctic Chairs: Ross Brown and Alain Mailhot Room: 301 A 08:30

Barry Goodison

Global Cryosphere Watch initiatives to improve Arctic cryospheric information

08:45

Nathia Brandtberg

Climate communication in Greenland

09:00

Caroline Sévigny

Projected changes in the wave and sea ice climate along the coastal Hudson Bay

09:15

Carl Barrette

Updated climate information for Nunavik and Nunatsiavut IRIS region

09:30

Cassandra Elphinstone

Maintaining individuality through scaling with equitable transformation: Applications to long-term phenology rates in tundra plants

09:45

Emilia Paula Diaconescu

Climate scenarios for Nunavik and Nunatsiavut based on regional climate model simulations from CORDEX

ECO11. CAFF's Arctic Migratory Bird Initiative, a Flyway Level Approach to Conservation Chairs: Jennifer Provencher, Vicky Johnston and Amie Black Room: 301 B 08:30

Courtney Price

Introduction to CAFF's Arctic Migratory Birds Initiative

08:45

Vicky Johnston

The Arctic Migratory Birds Initiative: getting a bigger bang for the conservation buck

09:00

Jennifer Provencher

CAFF's Arctic Migratory Bird Initiative

09:15

Natalie Carter

What should we do with all these Snow Geese? ...Bringing Inuit local knowledge into management of an international wildlife resource

09:30

Scott Flemming

Climate change isn’t the only change: Indirect effects of hyperabundant geese on sympatric-nesting birds

09:45

Amie Black

Incidental seabird Bycatch in the Baffin Bay - Davis strait region Discussion Current and Future Priorities under AMBI: where do we go from here?

10:00

COA03. Quantifying Thaw Subsidence and Frost Heave in Permafrost Terrain - Bringing Together Multiscale Measurements and Implications for the Future Chairs: Julia Boike and Philip Marsh Room: 302 A 08:30

Malek Singer

Quantifying mean surface elevation for small plots with microtopography and vegetation using structure from motion photogrammetry, terrestrial laser scanning and surveying

08:45

Jurjen van der Sluijs

Permafrost dynamics and infrastructure impacts revealed by Unmanned Aircraft System-derived terrain information

09:00

Stephan Gruber

Predicting liquid water content in permafrost from temperature time series: The importance of a structurally sound model

09:15

Karlis Rieksts

Open graded crushed rock material and light weight aggregates thermal responses investigastion at Røros experimental test site, Central Norway

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FRIDAY, 15 DECEMBER - 8:30 TO 10:00 (CONTINUED) EDPOL04. Arctic Council, International Scientific Assessments and Informed Decision-Making Chairs: Sarah Kalhok Bourque, Maya Gold and Carolina Caceres Room: 302 B 08:30

Ian Trites

The building blocks of informed decision-making: Scientific assessments, reports, and traditional and local knowledge in the work of the Arctic Council

08:45

Ross Brown

Overview of findings from “Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic 2017” (SWIPA 2017) and their implications

09:00

Kimberly Howland

Arctic Invasive Alien Species Strategy: A new policy for the prevention and mitigation of impacts from invasive alien species

09:15

Derek Muir

The new AMAP Assessment report on Chemicals of Emerging Arctic Concern: Implications for global chemical management

09:30

Simon Wilson

An European Union (EU) initiative in support of International Action on black carbon in the Arctic

09:45

Courtney Price

The Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna: Actions for Arctic biodiversity, implementing the recommendations of the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment

SUD05. Megaprojects in the 20th and 21st Century Arctic and Subarctic: Impacts, Governance and Evolving Regulatory Practices Chairs: Sabrina Peric, Elise Ho-Foong and Whitney Lackenbauer Room: 303 A 08:30

Sabrina Peric

Cultivating the North: ‘Mile 1019’ and the Forgotten History of Agricultural Megaprojects in the North

08:45

Elise Ho-Foong

Considering climate change in Northern and Arctic environmental assessments

09:00

Willow Scobie

Development project review processes in Nunavut: An analysis of the framing of social problems and solutions

09:15

George Stuetz

Key activities of Canada's auditor general re: Arctic affairs and sustainable development

CBIK04 - II. Co-Producing Knowledge of Wildlife Important for Subsistence in a Changing Climate Chairs: Sonja Ostertag, Lisa Loseto and Tristan Pearce Room: 303 B 08:30

Aaron Dale

Interdisciplinary knowledge, collaboration, and local leadership through co-management of the Torngat mountains caribou herd

08:45

Carie Hoover

Integrating multiple perspectives and available data to assess marine indicators in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region

09:00

Janet Boxwell

Gwich’in Harvest Data Collection Project: Empowering communities to manage their resources through community-based monitoring

09:15

Sonja Ostertag

Co-production of knowledge in beluga monitoring and research in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region

09:30

Paul McCarney

Exploring the potential for knowledge co-production in the Arctic: Lessons from three case studies in Nunavut, Canada

09:45

Natalie Baird

Inuit, oceans and participatory video and arts-based methods in Pangnirtung, Nunavut

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SPONSORS

INSTITUT NORDIQUE DU QUÉBEC

ARCTICNET ArcticNet brings together scientists and managers in the natural, human health and social sciences with their partners in Inuit organizations, northern communities, government and industry to help Canadians face the impacts and opportunities of climate change and modernization in the Arctic.

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.

www.arcticnet.ulaval.ca

www.inq.ulaval.ca

THE W. GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION

INDIGENOUS AND NORTHERN AFFAIRS CANADA

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 $28 million to charitable organizations and leading scientists to advance northern science and engage Canadians to learn more about issues facing our fragile North.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada’s Climate Change Preparedness in the North program is pleased to partner with ArcticNet to increase northerners’ participation to ArcticChange 2017. This partnership represents a unique opportunity to strengthen Indigenous and northern participation in science. Good conference to all northerners present! www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca

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SENTINEL NORTH

UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL

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.

Université Laval is one of Canada’s top research universities, it is ranked 6th among the country’s institutions of higher learning with a research budget of $377 million last year. Well known for its Canadian leadership in Northern and Arctic studies and its commitment to collectivity, Université Laval contributes to a sustainable global environment by raising excellence and acting advanced research. www.ulaval.ca

www.sentinellenord.ulaval.ca

FEDNAV LIMITED Fednav is Canada’s largest dry-bulk shipping group. Included in its owned fleet are three of the world’s most powerful icebreaking bulkcarriers, MV Arctic, MV Umiak I, and MV Nunavik. Fednav’s association with arctic transportation spans more than 60 years during which Fednav has provided innovative transportation solutions supporting resource development. www.fednav.com/en

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Exhibitors

EXHIBITORS Christine Koch Studio

Christine Koch is a Newfoundland-based painter and printmaker who draws her inspiration and imagery from mountain and northern environments. Her work interprets the dramatic geology and geomorphology of some of Canada’s most iconic wild places; her current practice focuses on the glacial, postglacial, and coastal environments of northern Labrador. www.christinekoch.com

Hoskin Scientific

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. www.hoskin.ca

Statistique Canada

The Aboriginal Liaison Program serves as a bridge between Statistics Canada and First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities. The Program’s objectives are to work in partnership with Indigenous communities and organizations to build strong relationships and to increase their understanding and access to Statistics Canada’s data, products and services. www.statcan.gc.ca

Amundsen Science

Amundsen Science is the organization responsible for the management of the scientific program of the research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen. Hosted at Université Laval and primarily funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Amundsen Science maintains the ship’s pool of scientific equipment, coordinates the deployment of the icebreaker for science, and provides technical support at sea for user programs. www.amundsen.ulaval.ca

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. www.arctic.ucalgary.ca

Eeyou Marine Region Planning Commission

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). www.eeyoumarineregion.ca

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EXHIBITORS Inuit Marine Co-Management

This booth brings together four co-management boards focused on marine co-management across the Canadian Arctic, to provide information on regional regimes and practices: Inuvialuit Settlement Region: Fisheries Joint Management Committee, Nunavut: Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, Nunavik: Nunavik Marine Region Wildlife Board and Nunatsiavut: Torngat Joint Fisheries Board. http://jointsecretariat.ca/co-management-system/fisheries-joint-management-committee/

EVOQ Architecture

EVOQ is a full service architecture firm with 35 years experience working with Inuit and First Nations communities. The firm is renowned for the way it expresses Indigenous cultures in their built environment. Based in Montreal, with offices in Toronto, Ottawa and Iqaluit, EVOQ has over 95 employees and projects across Canada. www.evoqarchitecture.com

Canadian Space Agency

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. www.asc-csa.gc.ca

JASCO Applied Sciences (Canada) Ltd

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. www.jasco.com

Ocean Networks Canada

Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) monitors the west and east coasts of Canada and the Arctic to continuously deliver data in real-time for scientific research that helps communities, governments, and industry make informed decisions about our future. Using cabled observatories, remote control systems and interactive sensors, and big data management ONC enables evidence-based decision-making on ocean management, disaster mitigation, and environmental protection. www.oceannetworks.ca

Station Uapishka

Founded in 2016, Uapishka Station is a partnership between the Innu Council of Pessamit and the Biosphere Reserve of Manicouagan-Uapishka. Located in Eastern Canada, north of the 51st parallel, it fosters preservation of the natural and cultural heritage through scientific and traditional knowledge. It is also a UNWTO principle-based ecotouristic site. www.stationuapishka.com

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EXHIBITORS ROPOS

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. www.ropos.com

Nasivvik

The Nasivvik Centre for Inuit Health and Changing Environments and the Nasivvik Research Chair in Ecosystem Approaches to Northern Health projects are led in partnership with Indigenous People and aim to understand the effects of global change on health. Nasivvik’s mission is to move from health research on Inuit, to research with Inuit, and ultimately to research by Inuit. http://nasivvik.chaire.ulaval.ca/

Canadian Science Publishing

Arctic Science is an open-access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal from Canadian Science Publishing. Arctic Science publishes research from all areas of natural and applied science and engineering related to northern Polar Regions. The focus on basic and applied science includes traditional knowledge and observations of the indigenous peoples of the region. www.cdnsciencepub.com

Centre d'études nordiques

The Centre for Northern Studies (CEN) is an interuniversity research centre focusing on northern ecosystems and geosystems. CEN plays a pivotal role in environmental stewardship and in the sustainable development of the circumpolar North through its innovative research, used to develop tools and formulate adaptation strategies relevant to the North. www.cen.ulaval.ca

RBR Ltd

Since 1976, RBR has been designing and manufacturing oceanographic instruments in Ottawa, Canada, and have steadily expanded to include offices in Atlantic Canada and in California, USA. From the ocean abyss to the polar ice cap; lakes, rivers and coastal zones, our sensors and loggers track water parameters including conductivity, temperature, depth, salinity (CTD), dissolved gases, pH, and many others. www.rbr-global.com

Chaires de recherche de l'INQ

In 2016, the INQ’s founding partners unveiled the Institute’s initial core scientific program with the simultaneous creation of three research chairs dedicated to the North. Reflecting a wide range of research, the chairs under the aegis of the INQ (INRS, McGill and Laval University) focus on renewable energy production, wildlife conservation, food security, and sustainable development of the North. https://inq.ulaval.ca/recherche/chaires-recherche.php

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EXHIBITORS Students on Ice Foundation

Since 2000, the Students on Ice (SOI) Foundation has led inspiring, educational expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. Globally acclaimed as a leader in polar education and youth engagement, SOI's expeditions and outreach initiatives educate youth about the importance of the Polar Regions, support their continued growth and catalyze initiatives that contribute to global sustainability. The result is more than 2,500 alumni from 52 countries making a positive and lasting impact on communities around the world. www.studentsonice.com

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. www.inq.ulaval.ca

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. https://www.km.kongsberg.com

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. www.sentinellenord.ulaval.ca

Canadian Cryospheric Information Network/PDC

The Polar Data Catalogue (https://polardata.ca) is one of Canada’s primary online sources for data and information about the Arctic and Antarctica. PDC supports researchers and archives data from ArcticNet, Canadian federal departments, and international programs. CCIN/PDC is the 100th member of the World Data System and is Canada’s National Antarctic Data Centre. www.ccin.ca

Québec-Océan

Québec-Océan is a group of scientists and their partners involved in oceanographic research. More than 200 members from 6 Quebec universities, several ministries and non governmental organisms collaborate to develop oceanography, including student training and knowledge transfer. www.quebec-ocean.ulaval.ca

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EXHIBITORS Polar Continental Shelf Program

Natural Resources Canada’s Polar Continental Shelf Program (PCSP) provides federal and territorial government and university researchers safe, cost-effective logistics across the Canadian Arctic including coordination of air transportation to and from remote camps; field equipment; fuel; communications network, and accommodations and working space at the PCSP facility in Resolute, Nunavut. www.nrcan.gc.ca/the-north/polar-continental-shelf-program/polar-shelf/10003

Takuvik

Takuvik was created through a partnership between University Laval (UL - Canada) and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS - France) as a joint laboratory studying the Arctic ecosystems. Takuvik's scientific program is designed to study the impact of ongoing climatic and anthropogenic changes on Arctic marine and terrestrial ecosystems and geosystems. www.takuvik.ulaval.ca

Aurora Research Institute

The Aurora Research Institute (ARI) is responsible for licensing, conducting, and coordinating research in the Northwest Territories. ARI provides logistical support services to hundreds of researchers working in the Inuvik region, with more limited support available for researchers in Fort Smith and Yellowknife. Come by our booth to learn more. www.nwtresearch.com

Alpha Mach Inc.

Alpha Mach specializes in miniature and low cost archival tags used in fisheries and biology research. Our instruments offer the opportunity to economically tag a large number of animals or monitor rivers, lakes & tributaries. Our newest logger, the Weetag®, are RFID, implantable and have a large capacity memory. www.alphamach.com

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, various sonar systems, GPS; also ROV/ASV packages. www.dascopei.ca

Yukon Research Centre

The study of climate change and society, sustainable development, and indigenous self-determination has inspired Yukon College researchers since the early 1990s. The Yukon Research Centre prides itself on investigating distinctly northern questions by applying science and traditional knowledge to offer uniquely northern solutions. www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/research/programs/yukon_research_centre

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EXHIBITORS 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. www.itk.ca

ROMOR

ROMOR is a leading provider of ocean geophysical, oceanographic, defense, security, autonomous, and ocean science instrumentation. We work with academic, public, private, and international organizations as a top re-seller, consultant and logistics specialist. With 30+ years in the business, ROMOR continues to build its name on customer satisfaction. www.romor.ca

Northern Contaminants Program

The Northern Contaminants Program (NCP) engages Northerners and scientists in research, monitoring, and communications about long-range contaminants in the Canadian Arctic.The NCP is now accepting funding proposals for 2018-2019, with a submission of deadline of January 10, 2018. For more details, including proposal templates, see www.science.gc.ca/ncp.

Makivik Corporation

Makivik Corporation was created in 1978 pursuant to the signing of the James Bay and Northern Québec Agreement (JBNQA). Makivik is the recognized Inuit Party to the Agreement. It is a non-profit organization owned by the Inuit of Nunavik. Its central mandate is the protection of the integrity of the JBNQA, and focuses on the political, social, and economic development of the Nunavik region. http://www.makivik.org/

Polar Knowledge Canada

Polar Knowledge Canada (POLAR) is responsible for advancing Canada’s knowledge of the Arctic, strengthening Canadian leadership in polar science and technology, and promoting the development and distribution of knowledge of other circumpolar regions, including Antarctica. POLAR will operate the Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS) campus. https://www.canada.ca/en/polar-knowledge.html

Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies

Advancing and promoting northern research and education, notably through scholarships, conferences and collaboration. / Nous faisons avancer les recherches et l’éducation en études nordiques interdisciplinaires en renforçant les capacités, notamment par des bourses, des conférences et des collaborations. www.acuns.ca

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EXHIBITORS Government of the Northwest Territories

The Government of the Northwest Territories welcomes collaborations with other governments, academic institutions, research agencies, communities, environmental non-governmental organizations and industry on research completed in the North and relevant to the North. Such research will support engaged decision-making based on best available evidence, including traditional knowledge, local and scientific knowledge. www.gov.nt.ca

LR Tech Inc.

Founded in 2003, LRTech develops robust solutions for the atmospheric remote sensing communities. Customers come to us with challenges that cannot be met with ordinary commercial products. Our revised version of the ASSIST-II sounder integrated data processing that generates in near real time the end products that you need, autonomously. www.lrtech.ca

Réseau Québec maritime/Institut France-Québec pour la coopération scientifique en appui au secteur maritime

The Quebec Maritime Network (RQM) federating, through trans-sectoral collaborations, expertise to position Quebec as a world leader in sustainable maritime research. For more details visit www.rqm.quebec The France-Quebec maritime Institute (IFQM), gathering key players in maritime research, innovation and higher education in France and in Quebec. For more details visit www.ifqm.info

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Research and Innovation for a Sustainable North The INQ vision reflects the partners’ desire and determination to develop a sustainable North on a foundation of knowledge, integrate scientific knowledge with that of local communities, including Aboriginal knowledge, and partner with the public and private sectors to develop the Canadian Arctic and northern Québec for future generations, providing clean energy, healthy ecosystems, viable infrastructures, economic prosperity, vibrant cultures, and education and healthcare systems that meet their needs.

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Congratulations to our 2017-2018 award recipients! W. Garfield Weston Awards for Northern Research Postdoctoral Fellows

Masters

Andrew Hamilton Louise Chavarie Robert Way Scott Williamson

Aude Boivin-Rioux Becky Segal Conor Mallory Evan Wilcox Gabriel Chiasson-Poirier Gillian Thiel Jared Gonet Kevin Scharffenberg Leah Wright Maria Cavaco Marianne Taillefer Maureen Huggard Sean Murphy Stéphanie Guernon Teresa Tufts

Doctoral Allyson Menzies Brittany Main Emily Studd Kara Pitman Marianne Falardeau-Côté Michael Palmer Michael Peers Sophie Dufour-Beauséjour Vaughn Mangal

W. Garfield Weston Awards for Northern Archaeological Research Masters Gary Beckhusen

Jacinda Sinclair

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The W. Garfield Weston Foundation and the Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies are pleased to announce the launch of the 2018 award cycle. The W. Garfield Weston Awards recognize individuals who demonstrate exceptional promise, academic excellence, leadership, and a strong commitment to northern science and archaeological research. The deadline for applications is January 31, 2018.

2018 Weston Family Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Northern Research • •

$50,000 cash prize $50,000 to support a postdoctoral fellow, with additional funds available for travel and research expenses as well as First Nations and Inuit engagement

W. Garfield Weston Award for Northern Research • • •

Postdoctoral Fellowship – $60,000 Doctoral – $50,000 Masters – $15,000

W. Garfield Weston Award for Northern Archaeological Research – NEW • • •

Postdoctoral Fellowship – $60,000 Doctoral – $50,000 Masters – $15,000

For more details and to apply, please visit:

www.acuns.ca

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NORTHERN CONTAMINANTS PROGRAM

A proud partner of Arctic Change 2017 The Northern Contaminants Program (NCP) engages Northerners

and scientists in research, monitoring, and communications about long-range contaminants in the Canadian Arctic.

The NCP is now accepting funding proposals for 2018-2019, with a submission of deadline of January 10, 2018. For more details, including proposal templates, see www.science.gc.ca/ncp.

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Sentinelle Nord permet à l'Université Laval et ses partenaires de puiser dans plus d'un demi-siècle d'excellence en recherche nordique et en optique/photonique pour développer des nouvelles technologies et améliorer notre compréhension de l'environnement nordique et de son impact sur l'être humain et sa santé. Le programme offre un environnement de recherche et de formation transdisciplinaire unique au Canada, incluant de nombreuses bourses de recherche et de mobilité. Sentinel North allows Université Laval and its partners to draw on over a half-century of northern and optics/photonics research to develop innovative new technology and improve our understanding of the northern environment and its impact on human beings and their health. The program offers a transdisciplinary research and training environment unique in Canada, including numerous research and mobility scholarship opportunities.

www.sentinellenord.ulaval.ca

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BREAKFAST OPTIONS At the Québec City Convention Centre: • Le Subtil – from 7:00 am • La Prep – from 7:00 am In Québec City: • L’Accent – 810, Honoré-Mercier, from 7:00 am (corner of rue St-Jean) • Subway – 800, Place D’Youville, from 7:00 am (5 min. walk from QCCC) • Allegro – Hilton Québec, from 7:00 am ($20 à $25) • Il Teatro – 972, rue Saint-Jean, from 7:00 am (6 min. walk from QCCC) • Le Casse-Crêpe Breton – 1136, rue Saint-Jean, from 7:00 am (9 min. walk from QCCC) • L’Omelette – 66, rue Saint-Louis, from 7:00 am (10 min. walk from QCCC)

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Alanazi, Thaneah Anderson, Darya Andrachuk, Mark Arthurs, David Babin, Julie Baird, Natalie Baker, Tessa Barber, Lucette Baron, Marie Bielmann, Mathieu Bradley, Josh Byrne, Samuel Coch, Caroline Cooper, Kaytlin de Moraes Pontual, Mariana de Serigny, Cecile Déry, Hélène Doody, Sylvia Drukis, Shailyn Durish, Nicolas Evans, Peter Furgal, Chris Furgal, Chris Galappaththi, Eranga

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Maxwell, Dale McMahon, Rachel Michel, Christine Miller, Lisa Misiuk, Benjamin Monfette, Mathieu Mueller, Brittany Mühl, Michaela Mundy, C.J. Murphy, Sean Nadaï, Gabrielle O'Sadnick, Megan Ogi, Masayo Ogloff, Wesley Ostertag, Sonja Oziel, Laurent Parenteau, Marie Peck, Victoria Peck, Christopher Pedro, Sara Perron, Christophe Petrusevich, Vladislav Pogorzelec, Nicole Priou, Pierre Racine, Calypso Raimbault, Patrick Rehm, Eric Reimer, Jody Ritchie, Jake Rotermund, Lina Sampei, Makoto Sankar, Ravi Darwin Sansoulet, Julie Sauve, Drew Scharffenberg, Kevin Schembri, Sarah Schiffrine, Nicolas Schmidt, Sabine Sébastien, Guerin Simonee, James Sirdeys, Nais St-Onge, Joanie Stark, Heather Stasko, Ashley Thiessen, Rabecca Tran, Lilian Trottier, Annie-Pier Verhoeven, Joost Walker, Virginia Way-Nee, Emily Whalen, Dustin Williams, Bill Xiong, Dingyi Yunda-Guarin, Gustavo Zhao, Shu-Ting

Anaviapik Soucie, Timothy Anderson, Christine Ando, Yuta Angers-Blondin, Sandra Antonova, Sonya Assmann, Jakob Aukes, Pieter Barnas, Andrew Bédard, Audrey Beel, Casey Bélanger, Claude Bélanger, Édouard Bergstresser, Mitchell Bernard-Grand'Maison, Claire Bongelli, Eric Bouchard, Emilie Brooks, Heather Campbell, Kiyo Cappelen, John Chatila-Amos, Kamil Chevallier, Clément Chiasson, Alexandre Chiasson-Poirier, Gabriel Cook, Alison Coulombe, Stephanie Cowden, Phaedra Culley, Alex Cuyler, Christine Dagenais, Sophie Dainard, Paul Dale, Aaron de Wet, Gregory Decaulne, Armelle Dolant, Caroline Eerkes-Medrano, Laura Elmore, Stacey Elphinstone, Cassandra English, Willow Ensom, Timothy Farhani, Ghazal Flynn, Nadele Forté, Sarah Fraser, Robert Freemantle, Valerie Frenette, Marie-Christine Gagnon, Samuel Gagnon, Mikael Gamblin, Dustin Gareis, Jolie Giroux-Bougard, Xavier Godfrey, Samantha Grandmont, Frederic Gruber, Stephan Hermanutz, Luise Hickman, Jennifer Hille, Erika Hurkuck, Miriam Irrgang, Anna Jacques, Sarah Jagielski, Patrick Jeffery, Paul Jitnikovitch, Anton

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Réseaux & Centres de recherche Networks & Research Centres 370 369 365 367 372 371 366 368 364

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ArcticNet Meeting and Conference Code of Conduct

ArcticNet Meeting and Conference Code of Conduct ArcticNet Annual Science Meetings and ‘Arctic Change’ Conferences are open to ArcticNet members and all those interested in Arctic sciences and related issues. ArcticNet is committed to providing a safe, productive, and welcoming environment for all meeting participants and ArcticNet staff. All participants, including, but not limited to, attendees (including researchers, partners and students), speakers, volunteers, exhibitors, ArcticNet Management and staff, service providers, and others (hereafter referred as “all participants”) are expected to abide by this Code of Conduct. This Code of Conduct applies to all ArcticNet Meeting and Conference-related events, including those sponsored by organizations other than ArcticNet but held in conjunction with ArcticNet events, in public or private facilities. __________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Harassment, intimidation, or discrimination in any form will not be tolerated. Physical or verbal abuse of any participant or other meeting guest. Use of social or mainstream media to target individual actions of Meeting or Conference participants in a way that could harm their privacy and/or reputation Examples of unacceptable behavior include, but are not limited to, verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, national origin, inappropriate use of nudity and/or sexual images in public spaces or in presentations, or threatening or stalking any attendee, speaker, volunteer, exhibitor, ArcticNet staff member, service provider, or other meeting guest. Recording or taking photography of another individual’s presentation without explicit permission is not allowed. Disruption of talks at oral or poster sessions, or at other Conference-related events organized by ArcticNet at the meeting venue, hotels, or other ArcticNet-contracted facilities.

Consequences

Anyone requested to stop unacceptable behavior is expected to comply immediately. ArcticNet staff (or their designee) or Security may take any action deemed necessary and appropriate, including immediate removal from the meeting without warning or refund.  ArcticNet reserves the right to prohibit attendance at any future meeting. __________________________________________________________________________________________________  

Reporting Unacceptable Behavior This Code Of Conduct is modeled on the American Geophysical Union Meeting Code of Conduct, the Design and Content Conference Code of Conduct and the Speak Up! Community Code Of Content

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AC2017 Conference Program

ArcticNet Meeting and Conference Code of Conduct

If you are the subject of unacceptable behavior or have witnessed any such behavior, please immediately notify an ArcticNet staff member or ArcticNet volunteer in a leadership position.  Notification should be done by contacting an ArcticNet staff person on site or by emailing your concern to [email protected]  Anyone experiencing or witnessing behavior that constitutes an immediate or serious threat to public safety is advised to contact 911 and locate a house phone and ask for security __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

More Detail - Code of Conduct Violations

Who can report a problem? Anyone who was directly affected by or witnessed a Code of Conduct violation at an ArcticNet Meeting or Conference can report a problem, and is encouraged to do so. What sort of problem can I report? Any behavior or pattern of behavior that violates our Code of Conduct. If you feel someone's behavior is dangerous or harmful to you or others, if someone's behavior makes you feel unsafe or very uncomfortable, or if someone is actively making it difficult for you or others to enjoy or fully participate in the conference, we strongly encourage you to communicate with an ArcticNet staff member or ArcticNet volunteer in a leadership position. Who can I make a report about? Anyone whose behavior causes you concern. We will give all reports equal consideration. Our handling of reports will not be influenced by factors such as the social status or conference role of anyone involved in the situation. When can I report a problem? At any point however it is requested that reporting be timely - as soon as possible during or after an incident. Reports will be taken seriously and handled appropriately regardless of when they are made. For reports after the Meeting or Conference, please contact [email protected]

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Best Practices

Be friendly and patient. Be welcoming. We strive to be a Network that welcomes and supports people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures. Be considerate. Your work will be used by other people, and you in turn will depend on the work of others. Your actions and decisions may affect colleagues, collaborators and partners and you should take those consequences into account. Be respectful. Not all of us will agree all the time, but members of the ArcticNet Network should be respectful when dealing with other members as well as with people outside of ArcticNet. Be careful with the words that you choose. We are a community of professionals and we should conduct ourselves professionally. Remember that ArcticNet is a diverse Network and you might not be communicating in someone else's primary language. When we disagree, try to understand why. Disagreements, both technical and social do happen and Arctic science is no exception. It is important that we resolve disagreements and differing views constructively. A strength of ArcticNet comes in its varied membership - people with diverse expertise, skills and from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. __________________________________________________________________________________________ This Code Of Conduct is modeled on the American Geophysical Union Meeting Code of Conduct, the Design and Content Conference Code of Conduct and the Speak Up! Community Code Of Content

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