Researchers at the University of Toronto will create a digital resource that will inform motorists and snowmobilers about the conditions of their roads. Some trails and roads in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories are increasingly threatened by climatic hazards. (Courtesy of Yukari Hori)
August 16, 2019
By Matisse Harvey
A team of researchers from the University of Toronto will design a web platform that will measure the vulnerability of Canadian Arctic roads to climate change.
“Currently, there is no official map that provides information on the conditions of winter roads, access roads and trails in the three northern territories,” says the postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Physical Sciences and Sciences. of the University of Toronto Environment, Yukari Hori.
The researchers, affiliated with the University of Toronto, the University of Alberta and the National Research Council Canada, will develop a digital resource that will be accessible to the general public by 2024. According to Yukari Hori, the platform includes maps showing the current, past and future status of roads and trails in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.
“I think this is an angle of analysis on which very few studies are looking,” says the researcher.