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.
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.
Hydration research in long term care patients
Sometimes the best academic ideas don’t come from labs or lecture halls, but from lived experience. That’s exactly what YukonU researcher Dr. Liris Smith’s recent research on hydration in long-term care demonstrates.
When the lake is too low to boat: researchers board the train to Bennett Lake
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.
Innovative solutions for northern mine water treatment
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.Get inspired. Get involved! Read more of our YukonU Research Stories.
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 56 | 2024
Includes Special Collection: Media Representations of the Arctic
Guest Editor Mathieu Landriault
Cover artist: Doug Rutherford | Boreal Night
December 2024