Grants and Contributions:
Title:
Evaluating the impacts of the 2023 megafires in the NWT: resurveying existing plots and growing the network
Agreement Number:
KME-2425-0005
Agreement Value:
$35,000.00
Agreement Date:
Apr 1, 2024 - Mar 31, 2025
Description:
The Wilfrid Laurier University research team along with staff and students from the Environment and Natural Resources Technology Program at Aurora College’s Thebacha Campus in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, will evaluate how pre-fire forest conditions mediate forest resilience in the face of megafire events. These activities aim to remeasure the burned permanent plots to advance understanding of the impact of pre-fire conditions on post-fire outcomes, notably for caribou lichen and soil carbon combustion; and to establish a network of new forest monitoring plots in the burned forests around Fort Smith and Tsu Lake camp. In its collaboration in training college students in fire ecology research methods, this research project will establish a research and monitoring infrastructure for the college’s Environment and Natural Resources Technology Program and support its transition to a polytechnic university.
Organization:
Polar Knowledge Canada
Location:
Waterloo, Ontario, CA N2L 3C5
Reference Number:
171-2024-2025-Q1-P0010
Agreement Type:
Grant
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Type:
Academia
Recipient's Legal Name:
Wilfrid Laurier University
Program:
Grants to Support Research and Activities Relating to The Polar Regions
Program Purpose:
To foster and encourage activities and events that promote greater awareness of, and increase knowledge about, polar regions. Attract, inform and inspire new generations to carry on Canada's increasing activities in polar affairs.