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Passive water treatment technologies are increasingly being considered for mine site closure in the Yukon and efforts are currently underway to test, compare and contrast passive treatment technologies with conventional technologies. This study aims…

Heat transfer into the ground at highway culvert locations can lead to the thawing of permafrost, damaging infrastructure, shortening its lifespan, and increasing maintenance costs. The Dempster Highway in the northern Yukon experiences multiple…

Northern Cross Yukon Ltd. is in the process of electing a treatment method for drinking water provision at their base camp situated in Eagle Plains, Yukon Territory (Canada). An experiment was conducted at the Yukon Research Centre for comparing…

Yukon Government’s Emergency Measures Organization (EMO), with funding from the Federal National Disaster Mitigation Program, has approached the Northern Climate ExChange (NCE), part of the Yukon Research Centre at Yukon College, as a partner to…

"The provision of safe drinking water is a key driver of public health and a pressing health issue facing First Nations communities in Canada. Despite numerous government assessments, training initiatives and billions of dollars in targeted…

Jean Marie River First Nation (JMRFN), NWT, has been working on climate change related projects since 2010. Climate change is greatly impacting JMRFN’s land and their way of life, including food security, and it is important for them to better…

A major environmental concern of the mining industry is the management of mine tailings. Mine tailings are the sulfide mineral by-products of ore beneficiation. Exposure of mine tailings to both water and oxygen cause acid-generating reactions to…

In cold climates such as central and northern Yukon, construction at a site must account for permafrost characteristics and implement design adaptations to ensure the resilience of the infrastructure, or risk costly repairs and interruption to…

The Dempster Highway is the only road connection to the western Arctic. Now connected with the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway, it is part of the infrastructure linking southern Canada with the Arctic Ocean. Extensive reconstruction of the Dempster…

Surficial Geology, Ross River Region, Yukon Parts of NTS 105K/1 & 2 and 105F/15 & 16 1:25 000 scale

This project investigates contemporary landscape hazards related to permafrost degradation in Burwash Landing and Destruction Bay, Yukon. It also considers potential impacts of a changing climate on the local landscape. The work is accomplished by…

This work grew from concern expressed principally by elders of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, that the wetlands of the Crow Flats upon which generations have depended, are showing distressing changes. The thought was that, remembering several…

Yukon, Alaska and northern British Columbia depend heavily on road transportation to link communities and connect industrial activities to international markets. The Alaska Highway is the central transportation corridor in Yukon. It is crucial to…

"In February of 2016, Raven Recycling collaborated with ACS Mechanical Systems with the support of Yukon Government’s EMR Energy Branch and the Cold Climate Innovation Centre to purchase an Austrian-built Hargassner Wood Chip/ Pellet boiler.…

Shallow Bay is a 230 hectare wetland at the south end of Lake Laberge in the southern Yukon. It has been central to the original use of the area by the Ta’an Kwachan first nation. It is an important waterfowl staging area; a key fish spawning and…

Jean Marie River First Nation (JMRFN), located 127km east of Fort Simpson, is a very active community that has led and participated in many scientific and traditional studies in the past few years. Currently, two primary concerns there are the…

"The main role of the Whitehorse Community Climate Change Adaptation Project Local Advisory Committee (WLAC) has been to provide a local perspective to the project and to guide the allocation of money for pilot adaptation projects.The WLAC…

The 2020 version of the compendium is a supplement to previous versions (2003 - 2019), and while it focuses on work that was published between May 31, 2019 and June 1, 2020, it also includes work that was completed prior to May 31, 2019 and not…

This document is meant as a report on, and a supplement to the Metals Uptake Database (www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/research), completed in the summer of 2017. It acts to summarize and report on certain aspects of the data contained within the database,…

The mine life cycle, from exploration to mine closure can be fast-paced and volatile, therefore careful consideration should be given to remediation planning of mine sites. Ensuring strategies are developed which are both cost effective, and…

"Over one year of wind measurements have now been collected at the Kluane Wind Project site and the data has been analysed and correlated to Burwash Landing’s airport to provide an estimate of long term mean wind speed at the site. While the…

Remote hybrid power systems that integrate renewable resources, such as wind and solar, in a thermal generation system encounter technical barriers with regards to the depth of penetration of these renewable resources. Some of these barriers can be…