YukonU Research Stories

YukonU is a hub for research and scholarly activity for students, faculty and YukonU Research Centre staff. YukonU Research Stories cover current research activities - for the North and beyond. Get inspired and start your own research project with our support. 

 

Dr. Nielson installs two bioreactors inside a heated shed at Eagle Gold mine.

Innovative solutions for northern mine water treatment

Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 3:15 pm
Industrial Research Chair in Northern Mine Remediation, Dr. Guillaume Nielsen, set up four pilot-scale bioreactors at Eagle Gold Mine in 2019 and monitored them for three years.

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students test a well

Studying metal concentrations in Whitehorse groundwater

Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 3:36 pm
Earth Sciences faculty members and two student research assistants are studying the metal concentrations of groundwater in Whitehorse with a focus on uranium, manganese, and arsenic.

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Ben stands in lab holding a plant

Mine revegetation research 

Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 9:14 am
There are big plans this field season for a mine revegetation project with the help of Master’s student and recent Northern Environmental and Conservation Sciences graduate, Ben Budzey.

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Zach kneeling next to monitor

Industrial disturbance and wolverines

Monday, May 15, 2023 - 9:51 pm

Master’s student Zachary Fogel is studying the impact of industrial disturbance on wolverines in the Klondike goldfields with the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation, and Government of Yukon Department of Environment. 

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Alison Anderson

Caregiving and Yukon engineers 

Monday, May 8, 2023 - 11:06 am
Instructor Alison Anderson, P.Eng. is assessing the impact of Engineers Yukon’s recent change to recognize caregiving as a continuing professional development activity.  

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Faith on river rock

Indigenization and decolonization of the classroom

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 12:35 pm

YukonU instructor Faith Whiting is looking at ways Yukon University instructors are implementing the concepts of Indigenization and decolonization in their classrooms for her graduate-level research in education.

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Cody presenting at SFN wellness event in February 2023

Communities identify their health research needs

Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 3:46 pm

Cody MacInnis is engaging with First Nations communities north of Whitehorse to form advisory groups of People with Lived Experience (PWLE) who can then identify community health research needs and drive projects from an inside perspective through his role as YSPOR’s First Nations Community Research Coordinator. 

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Inderjeet

International student, to researcher, to lab technician

Monday, February 20, 2023 - 4:40 pm
Inderjeet Kaur arrived at YukonU as an international student and is now teaching introductory chemistry and running the YukonU Research Centre lab!

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Anna Billowits

Collaborative health research

Thursday, January 26, 2023 - 11:16 pm
Master's student Anna Billowits believes that health-related research can be made relevant and useful to everyone through collaboration.

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Sara and David

Understanding food insecurity in Yukon communities 

Wednesday, January 4, 2023 - 2:29 pm
YukonU researchers are assessing food security in the Yukon by looking at the effects of food hamper distributions to communities during the pandemic. 

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