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Kluane Lake Research Reports
This summer, over 50 researchers and their assistants will use KLRS as a base station. Dr. Jerome Stueart will be reporting on their efforts as part of a communications and outreach project funded by the federal International Polar Year program.
His work will be publicized in a variety of ways. Media releases will be distributed across northern and southern Canada, stories will be posted to the Arctic Institute website, and articles will be written for northern magazines.
To learn more about Stueart and his work at Kluane Lake.
Peat beds offer clues to climate change impacts Derek Turner, Phd candidate in the Department of Earth Sciences at Simon Fraser University, is looking for evidence of glaciation events in the Silver Creek area. Read more.
Ground squirrels relocated to traditional hunting grounds - Scott Donker, a PhD student in the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia has been working with the Kluane First Nations community to move ground squirrels to an area where they were traditionally hunted. Read more
CBC Whitehorse Stories
CBC Whitehorse is broadcasting a weekly radio column featuring Stueart. Broadcasts can be heard live Tuesday mornings at 7:50 am, MDT. Click here and select Whitehorse.
Previously-aired stories are filed below. NOTE: all use Quicktime.
Audio courtesy of A New Day, CBC Yukon
July 7, 2009: Jerome Stueart is interviewed about his work at KLRS by CBC Producer Arnold Hedstrom.
July 14, 2009: Jerome Stueart is at Squirrel Camp talking to researchers about their ongoing work studying red squirrels.
July 21, 2009: Not everyone regards the gopher as a pest. Jerome Stueart talks about efforts to relocate ground squirrels to Kluane First Nations' traditional hunting grounds.
July 28, 2009: How do you prepare for four months in a remote northern camp? Jerome Stueart interviews researchers as they ready supplies to air-drop into Pika Camp, one of the research camps located near the Kluane Lake Research Station.
August 4, 2009: Rapid retreat and a high concentration of surging makes the glaciers of the St. Elias Range especially interesting. Dr. Gwenn Flowers, a Simon Fraser University glaciologist, talks about her ongoing work on the glaciers of the Donjek Range.
August 11, 2009: This summer, 12 university students camped on a glacier as part of a three-week field school operated by the University of Ottawa. Jerome Stueart interviews Dr. Luke Copeland, professor in UOttawa's Department of Geography, about the aims of the course.
August 18, 2009: KLRS offers researchers the opportunity to work in a range of disciplines ranging from botany to geology to glaciology and high altitutde physiology. Over the course of his summer at the station, Jerome Stueart found there is one unifying theme is running through many research projects - the impact of climate change.
August 25, 2009: Jerome talks to a Whitehorse student who spent time on Herschel Island this summer documenting coastline erosion.
September 1, 2008: Jerome winds up his summer radio series on the Kluane Lake Research Station by talking about the influence the station has had on science, scientists and policy makers across Canada.
Kluane Lake Research Reports 
