Scientific News scientifique | A pool heated with a geothermal system in Kuujjuaq

There is something counter-intuitive about the idea of heating a pool with geothermal energy in a region as cold as Nunavik and lacking in hot springs. However, it is becoming a reality in Kuujjuaq.

In Nunavik, as elsewhere, there is no need for hot springs to exploit the geothermal potential of the ground to heat a building or a pool. It is a matter of sending a heat-transfer fluid into the ground at a lower temperature than that of the ground to extract heat. More precisely, the fluid circulates in a geothermal loop that captures the heat of the ground.

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Call for proposals | Northern Collaborative Lexicon

Students are invited to submit a digital project to be included in the Northern Collaborative Lexicon.

This lexicon, dedicated to the North and the Arctic, will be composed of concise digital content defining in simple terms words or concepts generally known to the general public, but applied to northern regions.

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INQ at the 2021 Arctic Circle Assembly

INQ will present two sessions at the upcoming Arctic Circle Assembly (October 14-17).

• Quebec’s Arctic geopolitics

• Winners of my Northern Project Competition: Québec and Nordic countries

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MOOC | Northern Quebec: Issues, Spaces and Cultures

There is still time to register for this training, but do it quickly as the training started on October 4th. Free and 100% online.

This course offers an introduction to sociopolitical issues of Northern Quebec, the ancestral territory of many Indigenous peoples. This course focuses on the understanding of northern community cultures, the place of these lands in our collective psyche, and the different perspectives of territorial development and sociopolitical evolution.

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Joint RQM-CEGRIM-INQ call for projects 2021-2023

New deadline: October 21, 2021

This call aims to address the challenge of integrated marine incident management in the vast territory of Northern Quebec and Nunavik. It calls on researchers from complementary disciplinary fields to come together to reflect on an innovative project partnership that will enhance the value of the research already conducted - or in the process of being conducted - in this region of the province.

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Featured Resource | The Encyclopedia Arctica

Are you curious about the economic importance of Greenland birds in the mid-1900’s?

A real time capsule on the Arctic of the 1950's, The Encyclopedia Arctica is an unpublished work, bugun in 1947 and now accessible online.

Among the subjects covered are: archaeology, law, languages, medicine, zoology, botany...

You will also find a collection of 1200 photographs and 700 lantern slides by the Canadian ethnologist and Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson.

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Featured equipment | Needle probe (KD2 Pro/ Decagon) from the Geothermal Open Laboratory (LOG)

Your research projects are related to thermal energy?

Lab-O-Nord presents the Geothermal Open Laboratory (LOG)’s Decagon KD2 Pro needle probe.

This device can be used in the field as well as in the laboratory and permits analysis of the thermal properties of unconsolidated geological materials by the transient line source method.

While the single needle sensor measures thermal conductivity and resistivity, the double needle sensor measures volume heat capacity and thermal diffusivity.

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Upcoming INQ Webinars

October 20 - Annually resolved Atlantic sea surface temperature variability over the past 2,900 years by François Lapointe (University of Massachusetts) and Pierre Francus (INRS-ETE).

October 27 - Anxiety and its risk factors among Inuit adolescents in Nunavik by Dave St-Amour (UQAM).

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On the calendar

October 14 to 17 - Arctic Circle Assembly

October 22 - Deadline to submit a proposal for the 2021 Mentor Award

November 2 to 4 - The Sentinel North Scientific Meeting

Novembre 22 - deadline to submit a project to the Quebec-Nordic Council of Ministers 2021-2022 call for projects

December 6 to 10 - ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting 2021