Sentinel North

北极和亚北极地区是加拿大发现和机遇的新前沿。在加速气候变化和社会经济发展的背景下，“北方哨兵”将开发和部署创新的光学光子学技术（玻璃材料、成像系统、光谱、遥感器），以原位和长期地感知人类-环境耦合系统的关键变量。这一跨部门倡议旨在了解正在发生的变化如何影响生态系统服务、基础设施、心脏代谢和大脑健康。“北方哨兵”项目将建设加拿大的能力，以监测从微生物群到生态系统等各个层面向可持续发展和健康的新诊断模式和干预战略的转变。

Arctic and Subarctic regions are Canada’s new frontiers of discovery and opportunity. In the context of accelerating climate change and socioeconomic development, Sentinel North will develop and deploy innovative optics-photonics technologies (glassy materials, imaging systems, spectroscopy, remote sensors) to sense, in situ and over time, critical variables of the coupled human-environment system. This trans-sector initiative aims to understand how ongoing changes affect ecosystem services, infrastructure, and cardiometabolic and brain health. Sentinel North will build Canada’s capacity to monitor the transformation of the North at all scales, from microbiota to ecosystems, towards new diagnostic models and intervention strategies for sustainable development and health.