Bergs to berries: $32-million Arctic research grant funds wide variety of work

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Funding will be used to help understand the challenges faced by a rapidly changing North due to climate change and industrialization, Louis Fortier, head of ArcticNet, says

Ice floats in Slidre Fjord outside the Eureka Weather Station on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, on July 24, 2006.Canada’s largest program of Arctic research will receive more than $32-million in funding over the next five years, the federal government announced Tuesday.

“It’s really science to inform decisions, to prepare people in the North and also the government in the south,” said Fortier. “It’s really applied research.”ArcticNet, founded in 2004, brings 30 Canadian universities and dozens of scientists together with northerners, private industry and foreign research agencies. It funds work in the natural, health and social sciences.“We look at the health of the people and also their economy and society. You need to align those fields to get answers.

 

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