The objective of Team 5 is to examine how contaminant transport and transformation in the Hudson Bay ecosystem responds to regulation and a changing climate.

 

Members: D. Lobb (U. Manitoba), P. Owens (UNBC), E. Petticrew (UNBC), R. Macdonald (U. Manitoba), G. Stern (U.

The objective of Team 4 is to differentiate the relative importance of climate-related impacts and industrial impacts on the Bay’s carbon source/sink status.

 

Members: Z.Z. Kuzyk (U. Manitoba), B. Else (U. Calgary), C. Guéguen (Trent U.), L. Miller (DFO), S. Rysgaard (U.

The objective of Team 3 is to assess how different drivers collectively affect biological productivity and the diversity and interaction of water column organisms (microbes, algae and consumers) and the benthos, with an aim to identify the fate of nutrients entering Hudson Bay through marine gateways and regulated versus unregulated rivers. 

 

The objective of Team 2 is to investigate the role of freshwater timing and magnitude on contemporary and future projections of freshwater-marine coupling in Hudson Bay as a means of understanding the relative contributions of regulation and climate change to the system.

The objective of Team 1 is to understand and differentiate between how changes in climate variability and regulation will affect (or have affected) processes related to mass and energy exchange between the freshwater, marine, sea ice and atmosphere systems. The focus of Team 1 will be processes determining timing, location and volume of freshwater supply to Hudson Bay.

 

Leader: D. Barber (U. Manitoba); Manitoba Hydro Co-Lead: S. Toews

Members: I. Dmitrenko (U. Manitoba), J. Ehn (U. Manitoba), M. Granskog (Norwegian Polar Institute), G. McCullough (U.