Community monitoring of environmental change: College-based limnological studies at Crazy Lake (Tasirluk), Nunavut

Arctic

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-61

  Dyck, Markus G ^a,b  

^a NUNAVUT ARCTIC COLLEGE   (Canada)

^b Government of Nunavut   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Baffin Island; College project; Community monitoring; Freshwater; Ice cover; Lake; Limnology; Snow

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ICE COVER; ICE THICKNESS; LIMNOLOGY; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; SNOW COVER; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER DEPTH;

BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; CRAZY LAKE; IQALUIT; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; NUNAVUT;

EID: 34248353841     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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