Northern Environmental Geoscience Laboratory
Current & recent research funders
ArcticNet - National Centre of Excellence
Project title: Understanding and predicting future climate-vegetation-cryosphere
interactions in coastal Labrador
Principal investigator(s): Dr. Robert G. Way & Dr. Andrew Trant (U. of Waterloo)
Laboratory role: Project lead
Term: 2019-2024
Project annual report(s)
Year 1: 2019-2020
Year 2: 2020-2021
Year 3: 2021-2022
Year 4: 2022-2023
Year 5: 2023-2024
Project title: Forging community-engaged participatory glacio-ecohydrological research in Tongait KakKasuangita SilakKijapvinga (Torngat Mountains) National Park, northern Nunatsiavut (FORGE-TMNP)
Principal investigator(s): Dr. Robert G. Way & Dr. Andrew Trant (U. of Waterloo)
Other investigator(s): Dr. Laura Thomson (Queen's U.)
Laboratory role: Project lead
Term: 2025-2028
Project annual report(s)
Year 1: 2025-2026
Other project report(s)
Barone, K., Trant, A., Way, R. (2026). Summary of Knowledge on Alpine River Systems in Tongait KakKasuangita SilakKijapvinga (Torngat Mountains National Park), Nunatsiavut, Labrador. Submitted to the Nunatsiavut Government and Parks Canada. 34 pages.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Project title: Susceptibility of peatland permafrost in coastal Labrador
to future environmental change
Principal investigator: Dr. Robert G. Way
Laboratory role: Project lead
Term: 2020-2028
Polar Knowledge Canada
Project title: Integrating local knowledge, plant response, and cryosphere
dynamics to predict future food and fuel
Principal investigator: Dr. Carissa Brown
Laboratory role: Collaborator
Term: 2017-2019
Weston Foundation - Parks Canada - Nunatsiavut Government fund
for research at Torngat Mountains Base Camp and National Park
Project title: The Torngat Permafrost Project
Principal investigator: Dr. Robert G. Way
Laboratory role: Project lead
Term: 2016-2022
Indigenous Community-Based Climate Monitoring Program
Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, Government of Canada
Project title: Coastal Labrador Climate and Weather Monitoring Program
Principal investigator: Dr. Robert G. Way
Laboratory role: Project lead
Term: 2018-2022
Queen's University Research Initiation Grant
Project(s) title: Labrador Permafrost Project, The Torngat Permafrost Project, Coastal and Labrador climate weather monitoring program, Integrating local knowledge, plant response, and cryosphere dynamics to predict future food and fuel.
Principal investigator: Dr. Robert G. Way
Term: 2018-2022
Canadian Foundation for Innovation & Ontario Research Fund
Project title: The Northern Environmental Geoscience Laboratory
Principal investigator: Dr. Robert G. Way
Laboratory role: Project lead
Term: 2020-2022
Canada-Inuit Nunangat-United Kingdom Arctic Research Program
Project title: Impacts of cryosphere-hydrosphere change on ecosystems and livelihoods in northern Nunatsiavut, Canada (IMAGINE)
Principal investigators: Dr. Robert G. Way (CAN) & Dr. Nicholas Barrand (UK)
Laboratory role: Project lead (Canadian side)
Term: 2022-2026
2022 Annual Meeting Project Presentation
2023 Annual Meeting Project Presentation
2024 Annual Meeting Project Presentation
Climate Change Preparedness in the North
Project title: Snow, Ice and Soil: Adaptation to a changing cryosphere in Nunatsiavut (SISAdapt)
Principal investigator(s): Dr. Robert G. Way
Laboratory role: Project lead
Term: 2025-2027
Project annual report(s)
Other project report(s)
Way, R.G., Power, M. and Rendell, E. (2025). Winter 2025 field activities in Nunatsiavut for Snow, Ice & Soil: Adaptation to a changing cryosphere in Nunatsiavut (SISAdapt). Submitted to the Nunatsiavut Government. Northern Environmental Geoscience Laboratory, Department of Geography and Planning, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. 24 pages.
Way, R.G., Power, M., Rendell, E., Korn, J. and Tian, R. (2026). Summer 2025 field activities in Nunatsiavut for Snow, Ice & Soil: Adaptation to a changing cryosphere in Nunatsiavut (SISAdapt). Submitted to the Nunatsiavut Government. Northern Environmental Geoscience Laboratory, Department of Geography and Planning, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. 33 pages.
Organizations partnering with NEGL, supporting activities by NEGL or providing permitting to NEGL
Nunatsiavut Government
Research Project(s): Coastal and Labrador climate weather monitoring program, The Torngat Permafrost Project, Integrating local knowledge, plant response, and cryosphere dynamics to predict future food and fuel, Understanding and predicting future climate-vegetation-cryosphere interactions in coastal Labrador, Susceptibility of peatland permafrost in coastal Labrador, Impacts of cryosphere-hydrosphere change on ecosystems and livelihoods in northern Nunatsiavut, Canada, Snow, Ice and Soil: Adaptation to a changing cryosphere in Nunatsiavut, Forging community-engaged participatory glacio-ecohydrological research in Tongait KakKasuangita SilakKijapvinga (Torngat Mountains) National Park, northern Nunatsiavut.
Labrador Field Unit, Parks Canada, Government of Canada
Research Project(s): The Torngat Permafrost Project, Impacts of cryosphere-hydrosphere change on ecosystems and livelihoods in northern Nunatsiavut, Forging community-engaged participatory glacio-ecohydrological research in Tongait KakKasuangita SilakKijapvinga (Torngat Mountains) National Park, northern Nunatsiavut
Water Resources Division, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
Research Project(s): Coastal and Labrador climate weather monitoring program
Labrador Institute, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Research Project(s): Coastal and Labrador climate weather monitoring program
The SmartAtlantic Alliance, Centre for Applied Ocean Technology (CTec) and the Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship (COVE).
Research Project(s): Coastal and Labrador climate weather monitoring program
Research Project(s): Coastal and Labrador climate weather monitoring program, Understanding and predicting future climate-vegetation-cryosphere interactions in coastal Labrador, Susceptibility of peatland permafrost in coastal Labrador