Canada Makes Billions From Tar Sands, Can't Fund Key Arctic Climate Research Station
High Arctic Research Station Forced To Close
Canada’s northernmost research laboratory is shutting down due to lack of funding.
The Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) in Eureka, Nunavut, which made key measurements last winter used to detect and analyze the largest ozone hole ever detected over the Arctic, will cease year-round operations on April 30. At that time, its equipment will be removed and the building will remain available only for intermittent, short-term projects.
“When you run out of money, there’s no alternative but to close the lab,” Jim Drummond, a Dalhousie University researcher who is the principal investigator for PEARL, said Tuesday.
The station has been tracking ozone depletion, air quality and climate change in the High Arctic since 2005. But the Canadian Network for Detection of Atmospheric Change, an informal network of university researchers that runs the station, hasn’t been able to secure the $1.5 million annual funding required to continue running the station all year round.
Canada’s northernmost research laboratory is shutting down due to lack of funding.
The Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) in Eureka, Nunavut, which made key measurements last winter used to detect and analyze the largest ozone hole ever detected over the Arctic, will cease year-round operations on April 30. At that time, its equipment will be removed and the building will remain available only for intermittent, short-term projects.
“When you run out of money, there’s no alternative but to close the lab,” Jim Drummond, a Dalhousie University researcher who is the principal investigator for PEARL, said Tuesday.
The station has been tracking ozone depletion, air quality and climate change in the High Arctic since 2005. But the Canadian Network for Detection of Atmospheric Change, an informal network of university researchers that runs the station, hasn’t been able to secure the $1.5 million annual funding required to continue running the station all year round.
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