Herschel welcomes the newbies with some rough conditions

The second leg of the expedition starts with the island flooded and wind gusts up to 65km/h. However, Grizzly and seal sightings make up for it!  

When the polar researchers celebrated the ice thaw in the Arctic

At the end of the 2nd week of the Yukon22 expedition, the team woke up to a new sound: waves rolling onto the shore!

Modeling Pan-Arctic Peatland Carbon Dynamics Under Alternative Warming Scenarios

New study shows that peatlands will largely retain their carbon sink capacity under less pronounced warming trends but will experience a major capacity reduction under strong warming scenarios.

The beginning of a surprising adventure in the land of the never setting sun

Recap of a surprising week of the Yukon22 expedition on Herschel Island (Qikiqtaruk) still locked in an icy embrace while the sun never sets.

Nature Blog: Arctic coastal erosion accelerates permafrost carbon loss

Erosion of the Arctic coast could double in pace by 2100 as a result of climate change. However, uncertainties in future coastal erosion estimates, and in their impacts on the Arctic climate still remain.

CORDIS highlights the Nature Climate Change publication predicting increase in Arctic coastal erosion

CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service of the European Commission highlights the new coastal erosion predicitions by Nunataryuk.

Strong increase in thawing of subsea permafrost in the 22nd century caused by anthropogenic climate change

New publication presents results from first implementation of subsea permafrost in a global Earth System Model.

New Nature Climate Change publication on increase in Arctic coastal erosion

New Nunataryuk publication is out in Nature Climate Change on increase in Arctic coastal erosion and its sensitivity to warming in the twenty-first century.

PeCaBeau webinar on Thu 27 Jan 2022

Many of you know that the PeCaBeau (Permafrost Carbon on the Beaufort Shelf) project has a strong affiliation to Nunataryuk. An APECS-ARICE webinar on the project will air Jan 27, 2022.

New publication out in Nature Reviews on how to redraw permafrost outreach

How to get the scientific message through to children, their parents and teachers alike? The Frozen-Ground Cartoons project has done quite well reaching to the less scientific audiences in a fun but still informative way.

Drivers, dynamics and impacts of changing Arctic coasts

New review study on the drivers, dynamics and impatcs of the changing Arctic Coast has been published in Nature Reviews - Earth and Environment.

Nunataryuk Early Career Researchers in dialogue with the Aklavik Hunters and Trappers Committee

Nunataryuk Early Career Researchers (ECR) in dialogue with the Aklavik Hunters and Trappers Committee on current research and Nunataryuk results from the Yukon coast, Canada.

CORDIS highlights the new SACHI satellite dataset on human impact in permafrost coasts

CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service of the European Commission highlights the newly released SACHI dataset.

New year, new website!

As you can see, the Nunataryuk project has launched a brand new website during the holidays.

Project final results will be published in a comprehensive Arctic Permafrost Atlas to be released in 2023

Nunataryuk project results will be published as a collective in 2023 in the first ever Arctic Permafrost atlas.