Sentinel North
Environment | Health | Innovation

With its Sentinel North strategy, Université Laval fosters the convergence of expertise, transformative research, the development of new technologies and the training of a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers aimed at improving our understanding of the northern environment and its impact on humans and their health.

Activity Report 2021-2022

With a completely revamped look and web experience, the 2021-2022 Activity Report will take you at the heart of the stories marking a banner year for convergent research.

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Publications

Over 500 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, most of which are highly interdisciplinary and available in open access

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Impact research for the North

Sentinel North's interdisciplinary teams have become a force of scientific impact with concrete benefits for the Arctic regions.

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Sentinel North Author Fund

The Fund is intended to support first-author publications by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in subscription or open-access journals. Next deadline : June 1st, 2023.

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Opportunities and competitions

Sentinel North offers many learning and funding opportunities that all students and professors are invited to seize.

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news

  • Towards a better understanding of the migration rate of large rivers in permafrost regions

    A team of international researchers monitoring the impact of climate change on large rivers in Arctic Canada and Alaska determined that, as the region is sharply warming ... read more

  • Activity Report 2021-2022

    With a completely revamped look and web experience, the 2021-2022 Activity Report will take you at the heart of the stories marking a banner year for convergent research.

    Togeth... read more

  • Play, Model, Integrate : Advanced Field School in Computational Ecology

    With a novel experiential game-based approach, participants to this school will be introduced to state-of-the-art methods for monitoring and modelling behaviour and interactions in animal ecology, ... read more

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An unprecedented transdisciplinary strategy

Sentinel North is made possible, in part, thanks to funding from Canada First Research Excellence Fund.