Research Grants

Studentship in Northern Geography Recipients

2011

RCGS Studentship (Masters level)
Adrienne White, University of Ottawa
Dynamics of the Petersen Ice Shelf, Nunavut
This study will conduct the first comprehensive survey of the Petersen Ice Shelf to measure its extent (from 1950s-2010), thickness, and mass balance. Leading edge technology will be used to improve our knowledge of the response of the Petersen Ice Shelf to current and future climate forcing.

2010

RCGS Studentship (Masters level)
Jocelyn Joe-Strack, University of Northern British Columbia
Methylmercury and sulfur-reducing bacteria in sub-arctic lake sediments
This research will focus on the relationship between mercury and methylmercury with total bacteria and mercury methylating sulfur-reducing bacteria in sub-arctic lake sediments.

Suzanne Jarvis, 2006 recipient of RCGS Studentship in Northern Geography

2006

RCGS Studentship (Masters level)
Suzanne Jarvis, Wilfrid Laurier University
Hydrology of the Peace River over the past 1000 years from Oxbow Lake sediments, Peace-Athabasca Delta northern Alberta.

James W. Bourque Studentship (PhD level)
Jessica Tomkins, Queen’s University
Climate forcing factors and the records of climate variability in the Canadian High Arctic during the past 2000 years.

2005

James W. Bourque Studentship (PhD level)
Rebecca Turpin, University of British Columbia
Climate variability and barren-ground caribou abundance cycles in the Canadian Low Arctic.

RCGS Studentship (Masters level)
Jamie Reschny, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Mining, Inuit Traditional Activities and Sustainable Development: A Study of the effects of the Voisey’s Bay Nickel Mine winter shipping.

Jessica Tomkins, 2006 recipient of James W. Bourque Studentship in Northern Geography

2004

James W. Bourque Studentship (PhD level)
John Iacozze, University of Manitoba
On the relationship between snow covered sea ice processes and polar bear habitat.

RCGS Studentship (Masters level)
Vincent Desormeaux, Université Laval
Les Bases biophysiques historiques et culturelle de la rehabitation du couvert vegetal a Whapmagoostui Québec subarctique.

2003

James W. Bourque Studentship (PhD level)
David Hardie, doctoral student in biology at Dalhousie University.

RCGS Studentship (Masters level)
Jamie Hogan, University of Saskatchewan
Dynamics of Frozen Ground Processes in a Boreal Peatland

2002

James W. Bourque Studentship (PhD level)
Joan Bunbury, University of Ottawa
Surface Sediment Ostracod Assemblages and Water Quality in Lakes in the Southwest Yukon Territory

2000

James W. Bourque Studentship (PhD level)
Hugh Henry, University of Toronto
Ecology of Salt-Marsh Coastal Sinks at La Perouse, Manitoba

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