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.
Heading North to Understand Arctic Marine Mammals
Dr. Tara Howatt is headed even further north this summer. The YukonU oceanographer and her team, including summer research student, Claire MacMillan, are deploying an underwater glider in the waters near Ulukhaktok, NWT to study how changing ocean conditions and underwater noise may be affecting arctic marine mammals.
The Yukon’s identity, who decides?
What is the identity of the Yukon when its image has been very much shaped from the outside.
If a Yukoner had a toonie for every time they’ve heard, the Yukon - that’s Alaska isn’t it?! we’d be able to buy ourselves endless double doubles, to cry into.
It could be said that the territory struggles with its identity, internally no - this identity crisis comes from outside, and it can refract and disorient identity within.
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.
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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.
Current issue
Number 59 | 2026
Special Issue
Cover Art: Copper Caribou | Nàagàii Ddhah (Bead Mountain) https://coppercaribou.com/
April 7, 2026