Two MSc positions on “the impacts of wildfire on the hydrology of peatland complexes with discontinuous permafrost in the southern Taiga Plains ecoregion, Northwest Territories, Canada” at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON, Canada.
The Dehcho Collaborative on Permafrost (DCoP) is looking for two graduate students at the MSc level to examine the the impacts of wildfire on the hydrology of peatland complexes with discontinuous permafrost in the southern Taiga Plains ecoregion, Northwest Territories, Canada.
DCoP is a fusion of leading-edge scientific and Indigenous knowledge on permafrost focussed on developing new methods and predictive tools to help manage permafrost and adapt to permafrost thaw. See a short video on DCoP here.
Field studies will be based at the newly renovated Scotty Creek Research Station. The Łı́ı́dlı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́ First Nation recently took on the leadership of the station making Scotty Creek one of the first Indigenous-led research stations in the world and a “flagship” for scientific-Indigenous collaboration in Canada’s North.
Applications are now being accepted for a start date of September 2024.
For more information, please contact Prof. William Quinton (wquinton@wlu.ca, 519-635-0210).

