Community Adaptation and Vulnerability In Arctic Regions (CAVIAR) [Canada]

CAVIAR primarily collects qualitative data sets (interview and focus group recordings, which are subsequently transcribed). Research participants are northerners speaking to exposure-sensitivities and adaptive strategies in northern communities, and range from youth to elders. Quantitative data include detailed weekly hunting land use data in GPS format for hunters in Iqalu it (on-going) and georeferenced surficial geology polygons, sediment samples, landscape hazard examples, infrastructure foundation types and photographs of surficial sediment classes and landscape hazards in Clyde River.

Within Canada, CAVIAR is connected to three ArcticNet NCE projects: "Adaptation in a Changing Arctic: Ecosystem Services, Communities and Policy", "Instability of Coastal Landscapes in Arctic Communities and Regions" and "Understanding and Responding to the Effects of Climate Change and Modernization in Nunatsiavut". CAVIAR Canada is also linked with a SSHRC Northern Communities Grant ("Feeding the family during times of change"), Health Canada's Climate Change and Health Adaptation Pro gram, the Northern Climate ExChange's Yukon Community Adaptation project, and a SSHRC Northern Communities Grant (C-TAC, "Climate Change and Tourism Change in Northern Communities: A Vulnerability and Resilience Assessment").