In the past decades, warming temperatures and climate change have profoundly altered the landscape and habitat of the Arctic region. Northern ecosystems are very fragile, and we are approaching a tipping point that could have serious consequences not only for northern populations but also for fauna and flora, particularly those that are endemic, resulting in a negative impact on biodiversity.
This RSC Dialogue on the Arctic will be led by Peter Kevan (FRSC) and Magali Houde (RSC College), and will explore ecology, botany, and ecotoxicology in the North, with a focus on native vegetation and insect fauna, and the protection and conservation of aquatic ecosystems, especially the bioaccumulation of environmental contaminants in Arctic wildlife essential to traditional subsistence diets.
If you will be joining us in person at Walter House, the presentation will be followed by the rest of the cinq-à-sept, where you are invited to meet the speakers and enjoy light refreshments.
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Magali Houde is a research scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada and an adjunct professor at Université du Québec à Montréal and McGill University. Her research investigates the fate of contaminants in aquatic environments and their effects on organisms. Working alongside Indigenous Peoples across the Canadian Arctic and the St. Lawrence Valley, she integrates climate factors into her contaminant research to better inform environmental and human risk assessments in Canada and beyond.
Peter Kevan is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph. His Canada’s Arctic experiences are wide-ranging: from the High Arctic (Ellesmere Island, Resolute, Devon Island) to the treeline in the Mackenzie Delta, Churchill (MB), northern Yukon, and elsewhere. His areas of study range from terrestrial ecology, plant-insect relations, soil ecology, microbiology, micrometeorology, conservation and evolution. His global expertise spans the High Arctic, boreal environments, tropical deserts, and rain forests in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.
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