Chris Burn

Chris Burn serves as a Chancellor's Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa. His research investigates permafrost terrain behavior under natural and anthropogenic disturbances, emphasizing climate change impacts on Arctic infrastructure and mitigation strategies. Fieldwork is centered in the Northwest Territories at Garry Island and Illisarvik, where long-term ground temperature monitoring (since 1997) tracks permafrost changes, complemented by historical data comparisons dating to 1969.

Research Interests: Burn's interdisciplinary focus spans:

• Permafrost-climate interactions and infrastructure resilience
• Snow cover manipulation as a climate adaptation tool
• Ice-wedge polygon dynamics and ground subsidence
• Vegetation-permafrost feedbacks in drained lake basins
• Arctic environmental change across multiple temporal scales

His publications demonstrate consistent emphasis on field-based permafrost studies, climate adaptation strategies, and Arctic landscape evolution, with recent works increasingly addressing vegetation-climate-permafrost interrelationships.

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