Michelle Landry

MSc. Student at @UAlberta studying permafrost and contaminated sites in Northern Canada

[Michelle Landry @OnTheLandry]

Worked in the #Sahtu in 2019 with @ActuaCanada facilitating STEM workshops and camps. Back in 2023 for my MSc. Research on Permafrost and contaminated sites with @UAlberta and it feels incredible.

[duane froese @tephrafan]

And so begins a new season of fieldwork in the #Sahtu. This year— water sampling around permafrost landslides, landslides, contaminated sites, geophysics, community mapping. With ⁦@OnTheLandry⁩ ⁦@WedgeIceQc⁩ ⁦@alvarezpermfrst⁩, Gabrielle H and Keytash M.

[Permafrost Young Researchers Network @PYRN_official]

It’s #PYRNFieldworkFriday 🎊

Today we’re featuring the fieldwork of MSc student Michelle Landry (@OnTheLandry) from the University of Alberta, who conducted research in the NWT and Yukon!

If you want to be featured too, fill out the form here: 🔗https://t.co/RBV56kKFRv

[duane froese @tephrafan]

Fall weather pressing onto the Norman Range. #Sahtu region, #NWT

[duane froese @tephrafan]

W rapping up the NSERC Create Permafrost graduate training in Inuvik. Co-taught with colleagues Steve Kokelj, Suzanne Tank and Oliver Sonnentag. Fantastic experience— tremendous group. A few photos.

[duane froese @tephrafan]

A Latest Pleistocene turbic cryosol, probably about 16,000 years old. Tephra (probably the 80ka Sheep Creek K) and a very large horse. With Yukon palaeontology folks.

[Alex McPhee @ksituan]

I love making these kinds of atlas-style maps, I wish I could get paid to do 400 of them for Wikipedia 😔

[duane froese @tephrafan]

Finished a few days of community meetings in Tulita, NWT with the community, Renewable Resources Board and Willow River Indigenous Protected and Conservation Area talking about #permafrost, landscape change and community concerns. Wide ranging discussions and Great hospitality.

[Canadian Permafrost Association @cpa_acp]

We are still accepting entries to the CPA photo contest! Enter for a chance to win a cash prize and have your picture featured in the official 2025 CPA Permafrost Calendar. Submit your photos here by January 31: https://t.co/nZVYjdHH7g

[duane froese @tephrafan]

We did almost two hours on the local Fort Good Hope radio with the KG Guardians and one of the elders talking about changing permafrost in the Sahtu. For the last half a call-in show where community members asked questions about the environment. All also translated to Slavey.

[duane froese @tephrafan]

A 4.5m active layer in an area of Ft Good Hope NWT where the vegetation was cleared on eolian sands vs 1.45 m in the forest behind. Active layer thickness here is mostly a function of organic thickness all other things being equal. W/ @OnTheLandry⁩ ⁦@WedgeIceQc⁩ and JC

[duane froese @tephrafan]

Finishing up this weeks permafrost training with the K'ahsho Got'ine Guardians near their camp in the Tuyeta protected area. Installing ground temperature stations, ERT surveys, drilling and active layer monitoring as part of their permafrost program. A great trip.

[Michelle Landry @OnTheLandry]

Excited to have instigated this shared initiative with the @cpa_acp!

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[Canadian Permafrost Association @cpa_acp]

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[duane froese @tephrafan]

The #Sahtu region has about 200 drilling #sumps from oil exploration. It was assumed #permafrost would contain waste but in this area it is thin and vulnerable following disturbance. @OnTheLandry’s is testing permafrost integrity with ERT, ground temps, and mapping.

[Michelle Landry @OnTheLandry]

@UAlbertaNorth @UofA_EAS @tephrafan @ualbertaScience @UAlbertaFGSR @ipapermafrost @cpa_acp @POLARCanada @uanorthstudents @ehPECS @ACUNSAUCEN Thanks for hosting! What a great opportunity to give visibility to our research.

[UAlberta North @UAlbertaNorth]

Michelle Landry presents her Master's research @UofA_EAS: "Permafrost integrity and remediation potential of drilling-waste sumps in the Sahtu Region of the Central Mackenzie Valley, NWT"

#NRD2023

[Michelle Landry @OnTheLandry]

@UAlbertaNorth Happy to be here 😁❄️

[Michelle Landry @OnTheLandry]

“Kuptana said her community is thankful for the territory's quick response to remediate the site before freeze-up, but said there's still work to be done to mitigate permafrost thaw.”

https://t.co/xhH0JE22an

[Michelle Landry @OnTheLandry]

@cpa_acp Happy to be here! 😁❄️

[Canadian Permafrost Association @cpa_acp]

This is Michelle Landry, a Masters student studying permafrost integrity in drilling sumps in the Sahtu region of the NWT under Dr.Duane Froese at the University of Alberta. She is now part of our dissemination committee! Welcome Michelle!

[duane froese @tephrafan]

We had a busy but fulfilling day in Tulita working with ~20 youth in the classroom and outside, active layer probing and drilling cores with @OnTheLandry, @WedgeIceQc and Ashley Rudy of NTGS. Ending with a community dinner and talk on our work in the Sahtu, and community mapping.