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Our work

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In the lab...

Once we have collected our specimens for the field, there is more work to do! Check out some of the work going on in the laboratory after we retrieve our samples from the field.

Dissecting Arctic char

Here, Caroline Nochasak, Sydney Dicker, and Joseph Onalik dissect Arctic char collected from Sagliik and Nain Bay.

What are we looking for?

Inuit Research Coordinator John Winters dissecting an Arctic char to retrieve the fish's otoliths, and subsampling for DNA and fatty acids.

Arctic char otolith

An otolith (ear stone) from a char. These are used to tell how old a char is, similar to the rings of a tree.

A look through the microscope

Here, Inuit Research Coordinator Almuni Sydney Dicker takes a look through the microscope to identify microorganisms within soil samples.

Water sampling

Here, Inuit Research Coordinator John Winters and Katrina Anthony conduct water sampling techniques in order to measure nutrient contents.

Lipid extractions

Here, Nathan Jacque, Inuit Research Coordinator from Rigolet, and Caroline Ofosu, MUN PhD student studying char populations in Nunatsiavut, work together on lipid extraction at the BBERG Lab, at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.