Polar Knowledge Canada (POLAR) is proud to announce support for 10 exceptional students and early-career researchers through its annual scholarship, award and fellowship programs, totaling $180,000 in funding. These programs recognize and help strengthen the outstanding work of the next generation of polar researchers and knowledge holders. This investment reflects POLAR's continued commitment to advancing polar science and building research capacity in the North.
This year, students from across Canada are receiving financial support through the following programs:
Polar Knowledge Canada Scholarship ($10,000) - for PhD students conducting Northern or Arctic research in the natural and physical sciences, economic and social sciences, health and life sciences, the humanities, engineering and technology development.
Jolie Nguyen - Examining the role of nest microclimate and heat stress in breeding thick-billed murres.
Alexandra Langwieder - Using non-invasive approaches in community-led polar bear research in Nunavut.
Logan McLeod - Permafrost landscape change and its impacts on focal wildlife.
Madeleine-Zoé Corbeil-Robitaille - Tracing the invisible: The Common Raven as a sentinel species for exposure to nanocontaminants in northern communities.
Erin Tattersall - Building stronger collaborations in northern wildlife monitoring.
POLAR Antarctic Scholarship ($10,000) - for Master's and PhD students conducting Antarctic research.
Cassandra Chanen - Reconstructing Antarctic precipitation variability over past 2000 years.
POLAR Northern Resident Scholarship ($10,000) - for Master's and PhD students who are Northern residents pursuing research relevant to the North.
Michelle Blade - Assessing changing cryohydrogeologic conditions with locally-relevant landscape indicators in Nunavut, Canada.
Stephanie Saal - Advancing snow water equivalent retrieval using NISAR L-band interferometry in the Yukon River headwaters: Toward operational hydrological and ecological applications.
POLAR Fellowship ($50,000) - for post-doctoral or visiting researchers who undertake work that falls within the scope of one of POLAR's three research pillars and is conducted at a Northern institution.
Gifty Attiah - Scalable field-calibrated sensing framework to quantify climate warming impacts on water quality in small Northern lakes.
Olivia Hee - Sustaining long-term community-based wildlife health surveillance in the Canadian Arctic.
These scholarships, awards and fellowships help support early-career researchers, particularly those from the North, pursue research priorities that reflect community needs, advance Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty in research and contribute to a growing body of polar knowledge grounded in respectful collaboration between Indigenous and scientific approaches.
