Research activity map
Academic and research faculty, including those at the YukonU Research Centre, have research projects throughout the Yukon and across Canada's North. Explore their work through the blue location pins and click on the title links to learn more.
Rethinking fuel breaks: How YukonU’s Jill Johnstone is helping northern communities proactively plan for fire
After more than three decades studying wildfire in the boreal forest, Jill Johnstone is clear about one thing: the environment she began researching 30 years ago, no longer exists.
“When I first started working … it wasn’t a particularly large field of interest,” she says, “fire was seen as a natural part of the boreal forest, something ecosystems had adapted to over centuries.”
Explore The St. Elias Icefields, helicopter not required
Have you ever wanted to explore one of Canada’s most dramatic glaciated landscapes without mountaineering skills, extreme weather gear, or a chartered flight? Thanks to a new suite of Virtual Geology Tours developed by Yukon University’s Earth Sciences program, the vast and ice-covered St. Elias Icefields are now open to everyone.
To split or not to split: a faster way to cure firewood?
It was early October with the chill of oncoming winter in the air. We bundled up against the cold to meet Stephen Biggin-Pound to settle a distinctly northern debate – what’s the best way to stack and prepare firewood?
The Yukon's cavity users
Dr. Katie Aitken’s latest project is investigating an overlooked part of Yukon’s forests: the tree cavities that shelter everything from woodpeckers to squirrels.
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The Northern Review is a peer-reviewed open access journal publishing research and book reviews that explore human experience in, and thought about, the North, including the territorial and provincial Norths of Canada and the Circumpolar North.
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Number 58 | 2025
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Cover artist: Ray Marnoch, Layers of Autumn Splendour at the Takhini Salt Flats
December 2025