The ecology of arctic ecosystems and their sensitivity to climate change

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Over the past four years, I have been developing research on the fundamental ecology of the Canadian low Arctic as well as potential climate change impacts. I have established a major tundra experimental site that I anticipate will have long-lasting strategic importance for Canada. I have won several national and international funding awards, published 14 papers in leading science journals including Global Change Biology (twice), Ecology, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Ecosystems and Nature, and provided substantial scientific training for 21 people. I gave an invited talk to the American Geophysical Union and presented science and policy perspectives at meetings in Canada, the US and the UK. My initial Discovery grant supported these activities and was the sole source to develop a second research program related to the potential for soil carbon sequestration on abandoned agricultural land in Ontario that is just coming to fruition (manuscript just submitted, another in prep), and that will be funded from other sources in the future.