Churchill and environs
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Reachable by train, sea and air, the Town of Churchill on Hudson Bay is famous. It is known as "The Polar Bear Capital of the World". But, while there are polar bears and tundra plant communities to be found here, Churchill is not officially in the Arctic, being located at a latitude of 58° 46', and not above 60°.
The recent report from the Churchill Beyond 2012, Sustainability Summit, held in March 2012, describes Churchill and the challenges that it faces, in the following way:
"Churchill is a town with tremendous assets: a globally strategic port, a strong tourism economy based on internationally renowned natural habitat, well-resourced research capacity and extensive public facilities that were originally built to serve a much larger population. A the same time it is highly vulnerable to external circumstances, namely global climate change and the economics of international shipping.
While Churchill is a popular international tourist destination this has not translated into broadly-shared wealth and well-being: there are sharp social and economic disparities. Those working for major employers earn a higher median income than the province, but many of its residents live in aging public housing units. Its Aboriginal population is still recovering from a legacy of displacement, residential schools and isolation. The town population is gradually declining and it is difficult to retain young people or attract new investment."
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Item Open Access The Churchill Community of Knowledge: An open Access Digital Archive(25/11/2013)Netta Untershats and Jeevika Sivakumaran presented at the Northern Studies Symposium about the Churchill Community of Knowledge Digital Archive in YorkSpace.Item Open Access Insights into biodiversity sampling strategies for freshwater microinvertebrate faunas through bioblitz campaigns and DNA barcoding(BMC Ecology, 2013)Background: Biodiversity surveys have long depended on traditional methods of taxonomy to inform sampling protocols and to determine when a representative sample of a given species pool of interest has been obtained. Questions remain as to how to design appropriate sampling efforts to accurately estimate total biodiversity. Here we consider the biodiversity of freshwater ostracods (crustacean class Ostracoda) from the region of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Through an analysis of observed species richness and complementarity, accumulation curves, and richness estimators, we conduct an a posteriori analysis of five bioblitz-style collection strategies that differed in terms of total duration, number of sites, protocol flexibility to heterogeneous habitats, sorting of specimens for analysis, and primary purpose of collection. We used DNA barcoding to group specimens into molecular operational taxonomic units for comparison.Item Open Access Item Open Access Female Willow Ptarmigan, at La Pérouse Bay, 1985.(11/03/2013)Item Open Access Hatching Snow Geese, at La Pérouse Bay, 1985.(11/03/2013)Item Open Access Snow Goose on nest at La Pérouse Bay, 1985.(11/03/2013)Item Open Access Snow Goose, La Pérouse Bay, 1997.(11/03/2013)Item Open Access Male Willow Ptarmigan, at La Pérouse Bay, 1985.(11/03/2013)Item Open Access Snow Goose nest at La Pérouse Bay, 1985.(11/03/2013)Item Open Access Female Willow Ptarmigan at La Pérouse Bay, 1985.(11/03/2013)Item Open Access Snow Goose and goslings, at La Pérouse Bay.(11/03/2013)Item Open Access Salt marsh exclosure, La Pérouse Bay, 1997.(11/03/2013)Item Open Access Salt marsh exclosure at La Pérouse Bay, 1997.(11/03/2013)Item Open Access Snow Goose and goslings at La Pérouse Bay,1985.(11/03/2013)Item Open Access Snow Goose and goslings at La Pérouse Bay, 1985.(11/03/2013)Item Open Access Northern Manitoba(10/03/2013)Item Open Access La Pérouse Bay, 1985.(10/03/2013)Item Open Access View of the La Pérouse Bay camp.(10/03/2013)Item Open Access La Pérouse Bay, 1985.(10/03/2013)Item Open Access Randy's Tower at La Pérouse Bay,1985.(10/03/2013)