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• Biodiversity monitoring: Automated real-time
benchmarks that are crucial to understanding the
effects of climate change (POLAR).
• Kitikmeot Caribou Inuit Knowledge Mapping
and Monitoring Project: Document and facilitate
access to and use of Inuit caribou expertise to
improve understanding and management of caribou
populations (Kitikmeot Region Wildlife Board).
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monitoring of the wide variety of organisms in
the Canadian Arctic, building upon scientific data
and informed by local knowledge (POLAR and the
Centre for Biodiversity Geonomics, University of
Guelph).
In addition, 42 Science and Technology and
Knowledge Management projects across Canada’s
North were chosen to receive funding as a result of
POLAR’s 2017-2019 Competitive Funding Process.
You can find the list here.
BEC: How much, if any, international collaboration
takes part at the CHARS campus?
DS: POLAR welcomes and is pleased by the
participation of Arctic and non-Arctic states in
research activities across Canada’s North. The
CHARS campus is already attracting interest
and participation from the international scientific
community, and is providing a platform to leverage
the capacities of international researchers to work
on science and technology issues that improve the
state of knowledge in Canada’s North.
POLAR serves as a first point of contact for the
international polar research community to explore
opportunities to pursue research in Canada’s Arctic.
POLAR also liaises with research organizations
and institutes throughout the circumpolar world,
providing guidance for multilateral scientific projects
relevant to Canadian interests.
In 2019, 42 research projects from a dozen countries
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