Geocryolab has now set foot on the western Canadian High Arctic! Back from Cape Bounty Arctic Watershed Observatory , on Melville Island, Michel Paquette just inaugurated the collaborative effort between host researchers from Queen’s University and the Geocryolab. The short stay allowed the discovery of an at least 2m thick layer of buried massive ice near the top of permafrost under one of the most studied sub-watershed of the research site. Geocryolab will analyze more than 4m of frozen permafrost cores retrieved from the coring sites, with crystallographic, cryostratigraphic and ice content related analysis. The FaBRECC laboratory will analyse isotopic composition, geochemistry and nutrient chemistry in the frozen soil, and we hope that our complementary expertise will lead to a greater understanding of mass transfer through near-surface water movement, and of permafrost-related disturbances affecting the evolution of the watershed and its hydrology. A big thank you to Prof. Scott Lamoureux, Prof. Melissa Lafrenière and the Cape Bounty research team for their great hospitality!

Michel Paquette – Melville 2015

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