Community Monitoring of Environmental Change: CollegeBased Limnological Studies at Crazy

• Main Author: Markus G. Dyck
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Key words; Arctic; Baffin Island; college project; community monitoring; freshwater; ice cover; lake; limnology; Crazy Lake; Nunavut; Baffin; Climate change; Iqaluit
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.473.8929; http://arctic.synergiesprairies.ca/arctic/index.php/arctic/article/viewFile/265/298/

ABSTRACT. In light of the difficult logistics and high cost of polar research into climate change, involvement of local people can contribute immensely to important data collection. One can use the knowledge and skills of human resources that are already present—teachers, students, and community mem...