Research & Groups

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Visitors to the Station

Every year, KLRS hosts researchers, field schools, artists, and groups from across Canada and around the world. Learn more about our recent visitors, and some of the research being conducted from KLRS and the local region.

2025

2024

Low angle view of a group of students in front of a forest of tall narrow trees.

2023

2022

Our Projects

Hydroponics at KLRS

The Ag1054 project “Off-Grid Containerized Agriculture in the North” is an AINA-led research project with Dr. Craig Gerlach as the Principal Investigator. Ag1054 uses a shipping container, formerly known as a CropBox, as a controlled environment for hydroponic (plants grown in nutrient-enriched water instead of soil) food production.

Weather Station

An automated weather station was installed at KLRS in 2017 and records a range of meteorological observations, including temperature, wind speed and direction, humidity, precipitation, solar and far infrared radiation, and atmospheric pressure.

Scientific Instruments at KLRS

A wide variety of scientific instrumentation has been installed at the station over the years to record and monitor a range of geophysical, astronomical, and meteorological observations.

KLRS owns and operates a weather station, and also provides support to the researchers and government agencies who own and operate the other instruments at the station.

All data recorded by the instruments at KLRS are open and freely available.

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scientific apparatus with mountains in the background at sunset

An all-sky imager was installed at KLRS in 2026 by Dr Emma Spanswick's team at the University of Calgary.

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Since 1961, when the research station was founded, KLRS has provided support for studies in glaciology, geomorphology, geology, biology, botany, zoology, hydrology, limnology, climatology, high-altitude physiology, social sciences, anthropology, and archaeology. Over 1500 publications have resulted from these research activities, many of which are described in the KLRS bibliographic database.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of KLRS in 2011, a special issue of Arctic was produced in 2014. In addition to papers on current research, the issue also contains a history of the scientific research prior to 2011 (Danby et al., 2014, Arctic, vol. 67).

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Research from KLRS

Useful Resources

Research and education resources:

- ADA: Arctic Discovery & Access – Digital educational service, including a publications and research license database, by the Arctic Institute of North America
- Ice dynamics at the front of Kaskawulsh Glacier – Story Map by Brittany Main (Lab for Cryospheric Research, University of Ottawa)
- International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic (INTERACT)
- Operators of Canadian Arctic Research Infrastructure (OCARI)
- KLRS CryoNet
- CryoNet
- Global Cryosphere Watch
- EarthScope