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 Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
Natural Resources Canada > Earth Sciences Sector > Priorities > Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation > Climate Change in Canada
Degrees of Variation : Climate change in Nunavut
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Geological Survey of Canada, Miscellaneous Report 71, 2001

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Edited by: Kathryn Parlee and Bea Alt
Graphic design and cartography: K. Parlee and C. Gilbert
Research: K. Markwell, S. Qaunaq, S. Robinson, and S. Smith
Project director: B. Lavender
Project management:B. Alt and D. Scott
Contributors, advisors, and reviewers: J. Bourgeois, E. Baddaloo, M. Burgess, R. DeAbreu, L. Dyke, S. Edlund, P. Edwards, D. Fisher, G. Flatto, H. Hengeveld, D. Hodgson, W. Hogg, E. Hudson, J. Hyatt, B. Inuktalik, S. Jeffers, S. Joss, R. Koerner, A.G. Lewkowicz, S. Martel, B. MacIsaac, S. McCourt, J. Naufal, A. Niitsoo, F. Rainville, B. Rigby, P. Schledermann, J. Shaw, J. Shirley, I. Stirling, P. D. Sutherland, R. Taylor, N. Thorpe, L. Ussak, L. Vincent,S. Wolfe, C. Zdanowicz, and X. Zhang

Website: J. Sekerka
Education committee: B. Johnson, K. Giesbrecht

Lead agencies:
Natural Resources Canada,
Geological Survey of Canada;
Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office

Other participating agencies:
Canadian Ice Service;
CANMET;
Department of Sustainable Development, Nunavut;
Environment Canada;
Inukshuk Secondary School, Iqaluit;
Meteorological Service of Canada;
Nunavut Research Institute;
Qarmartalik School, Resolute Bay;
Ummimak School, Grise Fiord

This poster is available from the Geological Survey of Canada book stores:
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Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8

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Calgary, Alberta T2L 2A7

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Vancouver, British Columbia V63 5T3

Available for viewing at:
Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office,
626 Tumiit Building, P.O. Box 2319
Iqaluit, Nunavut

Website: GSC Educational materials

Funding provided in part by the
Government of Canada Climate
Change Action Fund
© 2001. Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, Natural Resources Canada


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