We’ve just returned from Alexandra Fjiord, easily one of Canada’s nicest High Arctic research station.  Alex is home to Canada’s and the world’s longest running climate change experiment in seven different ecosystems.  Since 1992, Professor Greg Henry, UBC, has been monitoring ecosystem change in response to experimental passive warming.  He has managed to collect a truly impressive data set on plant community changes.

While we were there, we met an amazing field crew of James, Sarah, Adrian, Will, Carolyn and Tammy who were busy monitoring birds, caterpillars, flowerss, marine arthropods, net ecosystem respiration and soils.  They also were fantastic hosts as we tried out the brand new IPY FTIR instruments.  if you ever get a chance, go to Alex, it will re-define High Arctic for you.