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Laurier researchers support N.W.T. ice roadbuilders

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An environmental research team from Wilfrid Laurier University is helping to secure safer winter roads for an isolated community on Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories, and is in turn benefiting from unique local knowledge. For four years Homa Kheyrollah Pour, the Canada research chair in remote sensing of environmental change at Laurier, and … Read more

Laurier researcher forecasts shifts in northern boreal caribou habitat due to climate change

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Frances Stewart, the Canada Research Chair in Northern Wildlife Biology at Wilfrid Laurier University, is using a novel ecological forecasting framework to predict how caribou populations in northern boreal forests will change and move in response to climate change over the coming decades.