SIMRES PRESENTS: THE CANADIAN ARCTIC | The Arctic island that captures the changes of rapid warming.

SIMRES PRESENTS: THE CANADIAN ARCTIC | The Arctic island that captures the changes of rapid warming. Presentation by: DR. ISLA MYERS-SMITH, Canada Excellence Research Chair, UBC Forest & Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship, Arctic Researcher Please join our latest SeaTalk as Dr. Isla Myers-Smith presents her research findings to date stemming from collaborations with Indigenous communities, Northern partners and research teams working across the Arctic. Through telling the stories of Qikiqtaruk, Isla Myers-Smith shares the magnitude of change being experienced across the rapidly warming Arctic. Since 2008, Isla Myers-Smith has been studying Arctic ecosystems and how they are responding to the rapidly warming Arctic on Qikiqtaruk – Herschel Island on the Yukon Arctic Coast. This island is at the forefront of Arctic change. Her team and collaborators are documenting vegetation change, earlier springs, a longer sea ice free season, permafrost thaw, increased storms and flooding, with all of these changes altering the habitat for wildlife including caribou, migratory birds and marine mammals on Qikiqtaruk and across the Yukon Arctic Coast. Prof. Myers-Smith is a Canada Excellence Research Chair in the global change ecology of northern ecosystems. Over two decades of research in the Arctic, she has studied how tundra ecosystems are responding to climate change. Learn more: Team Shrub: https://teamshrub.com/ Saturna Island Marine Research & Education Society | SIMRES: https://simres.ca Become a SIMRES member or donate: https://simres.ca If you like this video, please subscribe to our channel to receive future SeaTalks videos.