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Leaving a blank in Churchill

BY SARAH LAWRYNUIK

LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER, WINNIPEG FREE PRESS

Federal polar bear research near Churchill has been put on hold for the first time since 1980 because of restrictions on travel due to the global coronavirus pandemic.

Nick Lunn, an Alberta research scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, travels to Northern Manitoba every year in September to conduct polar bear monitoring programs.

Lunn’s work involves sedating more than 100 bears so measurements and other biological samples can be taken.

The long-term data set that has been cultivated over the past 40 years is the best in the world for this species, he says. But this year that unbroken stream of information will be fractured.

“Long-term data sets can handle a missed year in the time series more easily than short-term data sets,” he said in an email from Edmonton.

“Techniques in analysis have advanced so much over the past 30 to 40 years that there are now ways to deal with gaps for certain types of questions. So while (it’s) disappointing to miss fall 2020, it won’t be the end of the world for the long-term nature and value of the program.”

That said, it doesn’t mean the missed data is inconsequential. “Without knowing what was missed, it is

Nickel Belt News photo by Sarah Lawrynuik/Winnipeg Free Press A mother polar bear and her two cubs relax amongst the rocks near the shores of Hudson Bay in late August. not possible to assess the significance,” he said.

For example, one of the first strong signals that polar bear health was linked to climate change came from a single year of data in 1992.

That year the bears weighed significantly more than usual, and researchers were able to link that event with the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines.

The eruption launched so much particulate matter into the atmosphere that it blocked sunlight, temporarily cooling the Arctic in the spring of 1992. As a result, among other things, there was a later breakup of the sea ice in western Hudson

Bay that year — and consequently better-fed, fatter polar bears.

If there had been no data collection in 1992, this specific event and link might have been missed, Lunn said.

As researchers look to better understand the effects of climate change on these animals, they are expanding their understanding of what influences the bears’ health.

“We know that (sea ice) breakup was later this year than last, so we would have expected bears to be in better condition this year, which hopefully translates into (more and bigger) cubs in the spring. Unfortunately,

we won’t know how much better condition they may have been in,” Lunn said.

During the summer when travel restrictions to Northern Manitoba were lifted, many researchers, including Lunn, were hopeful they’d be able to get to northern communities.

However, this fall the northern travel ban was reinstated. While provincial health officials allowed an exemption to the travel ban for research and tourism, many universities and government institutions have opted for more stringent restrictions internally. Thus, Lunn and his colleagues at Environment and Climate

Change Canada have been grounded.

On Oct. 22, more stringent public health orders were announced for the northern region and Churchill, however there was no mention of ending the Churchill travel exemption.

Andrew Derocher, professor of biological sciences at the University of Alberta, has worked with the polar bear population near Churchill on and off since the early 1980s. He says the impact of the missing research is significant.

“Losing the monitoring conducted by Environment and Climate Change Can-

ada this year was a huge loss to polar bear science and to Arctic monitoring on a global scale. The western Hudson Bay population is the baseline study from which we have learned about how climate change affects polar bears,” he said.

“Other polar bear populations have far less data and far less insight into the mechanisms of change brought by warming.”

Derocher’s research is among the work being affected this year, as he is also unable to travel to northern Manitoba. Much of his research is conducted in concert with federal researchers.

Resilient wood frogs keep researcher hopping

BY SARAH LAWRYNUIK

LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER, WINNIPEG FREE PRESS

One of the Churchill region’s most resilient animals is a lesser-known critter, one that has the ability to freeze like a hockey puck to weather the North’s frigid winters and has a habitat range that dips south all the way to North Carolina.

It’s Canada’s most widely distributed amphibian: the wood frog.

Jon Davenport, assistant professor of biology at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, makes annual trips to Churchill (at least when he isn’t blocked from field work by a global pandemic) to monitor the wood frog population and understand how it is being affected by climate change.

“It’s amazing to me that

they’re even up there. Why go through all the trouble to be up there when it’s so extreme? And that’s what we’re trying to understand. And as the environment becomes even more extreme, how resilient are they?” Davenport says.

Overall, the Northern Manitoba population remains stable, but there are stressors, such as drying ponds where frogs lay eggs.

In tracking adult and juvenile frog movements over the past four years, unsurprisingly, the animals avoid hot, dry areas, Davenport says. What is surprising is the amount of time the frogs spend on the tundra landscape when they are more adapted to living in the woods.

“We’re trying to understand how are they so stable, given that the environment is

changing? There’s a couple things we think are going on.

Because maybe the ponds are drying earlier, and the frogs aren’t necessarily getting there any earlier, but they can speed up their growth to respond to that,” he says.

“And even as those ponds are drying, and they come out, the adults and some of the smaller ones do spend a lot of time out in the open tundra.... We think it’s because the shrubs — which (previously) weren’t on the tundra as much — they’ve encroached onto the tundra.

So the frogs can hop out of the pond, even if they have to a little earlier ... and there’s a shrub that provides them with some relief from the UV radiation.

“So, that shrub encroachment, that changing of the environment, could actually

benefit the adults in some ways, but the ponds drying could negatively affect the juveniles and the larvae.”

This led Davenport to venture into the frog real-estate market. He started building what he calls “frog condos” — cages the research team erects around a frog as it selects its winter hibernation spot.

“They basically turn into a little frozen hockey puck.

We call it super-cooling. They prevent ice crystals from forming in organs and they change over their sugars in a manner that prevents them from getting any damage to organs and basically allows them to shut down most functions and just be a little frozen Popsicle for, roughly up there in Churchill, it’s about eight-and-a-half months of the year,” he says.

“At that spot, they dig a little bit into the soil and they just freeze.”

He’s itching to know: why that spot?

Based on limited data so far, Davenport believes the longer time spent in hibernation expands the frog’s lifespan. Where he lives, in North Carolina, the lifespan of frogs is two to three years; in Churchill, they know the frogs can live until they’re at least four, with some evidence suggesting there are eight-year-old frogs hopping around.

“It kind of makes sense, if you think about it. If they’re frozen for eight months of the year, they’re really only actively hopping around doing stuff for four months, so their equivalent of eight years is really only two-and-a-half years for a normal frog,” he

says.

Monitoring of the frog population, despite its continued stability, is important, Davenport says, because of its position at the bottom of the food web.

After 10 years of research, going in with an expectation he would see declines in this frog population, Davenport is now reasonably confident in the animal’s incredible ability to adapt to whatever Mother Nature throws at it.

“They are being pushed, but these are the populations that are on the edge of their range and have already been pushed for however many thousands of years.

So maybe for them, they are actually more resilient and we shouldn’t expect as crazy of a change for them, as we should expect if those changes occur at lower (latitudes).”

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The domino effect bears. So, when polar bears dens, which are used repeathave a good year, historic- edly over hundreds of years, ally, the foxes do, too. But the researchers are finding polar bears are having fewer more inhabited by red foxes. good years.

Both foxes are impacted “We’ve found there’s a by lemming numbers. long-term decline in the “I’m really interested in Arctic fox numbers in this food webs. Species interarea,” says Jim Roth, a actions. How changes educentr.dumont@gmail.com professor of biological sci- amongst one species affects ence at the University of others, both directly and inManitoba. directly,” Roth says.

Sister Andrea Dumont “There’s lots of annual “Lemmings are, arguably, variation. Some years, the most important species people still see lots of Arc- for wildlife on the tundra. tic foxes around, other years They have these dramatic not so many.... But, if you fluctuations in abundance. look at the long-term trend When they’re really abunover the last 50, 60 years dant all the predators have there has been a decrease.” lots to eat. Then they reproRoth and his team of re- duce and so predator popusearchers regularly monitor lations go up. Then when 120 fox dens in the area and the lemming populations they use data on the num- crash, the predators have ber of animals trappers to feed on something else. have harvested as an index Then they nail all the birds to follow and monitor the and everything else.” population’s health.

Lemmings rely on snow But there’s another rip- to burrow into and protect ple in the story: Arctic foxes them throughout the harsh now have competition for winters. But climate change resources. has brought about changes “We are finding more red in snow quality, which foxes out on the tundra,” Roth believes has led to a Nickel Belt News photo by Sarah Lawrynuik/Winnipeg Free Press Roth says. dampening of the lemming Jim Roth studies Arctic foxes and foodwebs in the Churchill region.

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Blind Indigenous recording artist Mattmac releases debut single

BY NICOLE WONG

LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER, WINNIPEG SUN

Matthew Monias, also known as Mattmac, has recently released his debut single called “Paradise,” a melodic rap and trap song about summer love.

Mattmac is an Indigenous music producer and recording artist who was born blind

from Garden Hill First Nation which is about 470 kilometres north of Winnipeg.

His recent song is currently sitting on number three of the Indigenous Music Countdown, a nationally syndicated radio show hosted

by SiriusXM Canada.

“This is definitely one of my biggest achievements. So much have been happening

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with it, it has been getting a lot of heavy views. I appreciate the fact that people are listening and watching the music video,” said Mattmac.

“The song has also been picked up by different radio stations across Canada and that has been pretty big for me as an artist, especially since this is my first debut single,” he added.

The Paradise video was shot in various well-known places in Winnipeg, such as the Polo Park shopping mall and The Forks.

He recorded the song on Christmas day last year as he was reflecting on summer love and past relationships.

The song quickly came together within an hour.

Paradise was originally a two-minute song, but he decided to add another verse to the song a month later.

When he finally finished his song, he showed the track to his manager, David Hodges, who told Mattmac that his song will become a radio hit.

His music video currently has over 16,000 views on YouTube.

Growing up, Mattmac often listened to gospel music as well as rap and rock because of his siblings.

He began singing at age

four and started making beats and writing songs when he was 13 years old. From them, he taught himself to play the keyboard, drums and guitar.

In 2016, a travelling recording studio called N’we Jinan visited his school to make a music video. After collaborating with them, he was inspired to make more beats.

Later, he got acquainted with an internet collective based in the United States named Blind & Famous where they introduced him to modern rap.

On Nov. 20, he plans to release an album with eight songs called “2020.” His album will include his debut song while giving focus to his struggles in relationships and as a developing artist.

“One of the songs talks about me being stuck in my head, thinking about how I’m living in my dream right now and just reflecting on things going on. I gave my mom a shout out in one of my songs,” said Mattmac.

“In the song, I promised my mom that no matter how far get I will always stay in contact with her. In the line, I say, ‘When I blow up I promise to send you letters.’”

He hopes that listeners will

Nickel Belt News photo courtesy of David Hodges Indigenous music producer and recording artist Matthew Monias, also known as Mattmac. be able to relate to the music he makes and that his work is able to take away the pain, suffering or isolation that the listener may feel.

To add to his accomplishments, Mattmac has also recently been named a top scorer in Manitoba Music’s

Industry Songwriter Challenge 2020.

Nicole Wong is a Local Journalism Initiative reporter who works out of the Winnipeg Sun. The Local Journalism Initiative is funded by the government of Canada.

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RCMP photos A cairn honouring former RCMP officer Sgt. James O’Malley was unveiled in Gillam Oct. 28. While posted in the Arctic, O’Malley often travelled by dog sled, once getting trapped in a severe Arctic blizzard for 12 days, and trekked 65 miles across broken sea ice in a single day, Manitoba RCMP said on social media.

Driver dies of injuries suffered when cement truck rolls in Snow Lake Snow Lake RCMP are investigating a fatal accident that took place on Provincial Road 392 at Lakeshore Drive on Monday afternoon.

Police responded to the single-vehicle rollover around 3 p.m. Oct. 26. A cement truck lost control on a curve and rolled into the ditch. The 51-year-old male driver from Thompson was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. RCMP and Manitoba Workplace and Health continue to investigate.

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The incumbent and FACTSmust fulfill the requirements of the Criminal Records/Vulnerable Person, Child Abuse Registry check and Adult Abuse Registry check, and adhere § to Health converse fluently inand Cree (preferred) to allAbility Northern Region policies procedures.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT Qualifications: t § Grade education or equivalent Must12pass a criminal records check, child abuse registry check t Successful completion of a recognized Dental Assistant Program required and prior contact check. t Current active practicing registration with Manitoba Dental Association Cannotknowledge be active of onWindows a protection t § Excellent basedcase. programs (Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Internet) § Varied and amounts of travel required within this position. t § Minimum three (3) years’ experience as a Dental Assistant required Must have a valid Manitoba driver’s license. t Previous experience working with Pediatric cases preferred § Must be able to provide own vehicle for work. t Ability to speak Cree an asset

§ Other duties related to the position may be assigned.

For complete list of qualifications please visit our website www.nrha.ca.

Deadline: November 9, 2020 @ 4:00 PM

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