YukonU Research Stories

YukonU is a hub for research and scholarly activity for students, faculty and YukonU Research Centre staff. YukonU Research Stories cover current research activities - for the North and beyond. Get inspired and start your own research project with our support.

Research student Leif Rupke in front of train

When the lake is too low to boat: researchers board the train to Bennett Lake

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 1:56 pm

This June, low water levels in Bennett Lake disrupted the travel plans of Yukon University research assistants, Leif Rupke and Christina MacNeil, and lead researcher, Dr. Ashley Dubnick. Instead of accessing a remote research site by boat with Land Guardians from the Carcross Tagish First Nation – which is how researchers typically travel to the site – the team blew their whistles and boarded the White Pass & Yukon Route Railway.

Dr. Nielson installs two bioreactors inside a heated shed at Eagle Gold mine.

Innovative solutions for northern mine water treatment

Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 3:15 pm

Industrial Research Chair in Northern Mine Remediation, Dr. Guillaume Nielsen, set up four pilot-scale bioreactors at Eagle Gold Mine in 2019 and monitored them for three years.

Studying metal concentrations in Whitehorse groundwater

Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 3:36 pm

Earth Sciences faculty members and two student research assistants are studying the metal concentrations of groundwater in Whitehorse with a focus on uranium, manganese, and arsenic.

Mine revegetation research

Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 9:14 am

There are big plans this field season for a mine revegetation project with the help of Master’s student and recent Northern Environmental and Conservation Sciences graduate, Ben Budzey.

Industrial disturbance and wolverines

Monday, May 15, 2023 - 9:51 pm

Master’s student Zachary Fogel is studying the impact of industrial disturbance on wolverines in the Klondike goldfields with the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation, and Government of Yukon Department of Environment.

Caregiving and Yukon engineers

Monday, May 8, 2023 - 11:06 am

Instructor Alison Anderson, P.Eng. is assessing the impact of Engineers Yukon’s recent change to recognize caregiving as a continuing professional development activity.

Indigenization and decolonization of the classroom

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 12:35 pm

YukonU instructor Faith Whiting is looking at ways Yukon University instructors are implementing the concepts of Indigenization and decolonization in their classrooms for her graduate-level research in education.

Cody presenting at SFN wellness event in February 2023

Communities identify their health research needs

Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 3:46 pm

Cody MacInnis is engaging with First Nations communities north of Whitehorse to form advisory groups of People with Lived Experience (PWLE) who can then identify community health research needs and drive projects from an inside perspective through his role as YSPOR’s First Nations Community Research Coordinator.