Recent publications - Permafrost lowlands in transition

Journal articles

Byun E, Rezanezhad F, Fairbairn L, Slowinski S, Basiliko N, Price JS, Quinton WL, Roy-Léveillée P, Webster K, Van Cappellen P. (submitted in 2021). Temperature, moisture and freeze-thaw regulate CO² production in peat soil incubations: Implications for non-growing season CO2 emissions from northern peatlands. Scientific Reports, 11: 23219. DOI: 1038/s41598-021-02606-3
Povoroznyuk O, Vincent WF, Schweitzer P, Laptander R, Bennett M, Calmels F, Sergeev D, Arp C, Forbes B, Roy-Léveillée P, Walker DA. (submitted in 2021). Arctic Roads and Railways: Environmental and Social Consequences of Transport Infrastructure in the Circumpolar North. Arctic.
Kirkwood JAH, Roy-Léveillée P, Mykytczuk N, Packalen M, McLaughlin J, Laframboise A, Basiliko N. 2021. Soil Microbial Community Response to Permafrost Degradation in Palsa Fields of the Hudson Bay Lowlands: Implications for Greenhouse Gas Production in a Warming Climate. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 35 : e2021GB006954. DOI: 10.1029/2021GB006954
O’Neill HB, Roy‐Leveillee P, Lebedeva L, Ling, F. (2020) Recent advances (2010–2019) in the study of taliks. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, doi: 10.1002/ppp.2050 (available upon request via ResearchGate)
Roy-Léveillée P, Burn CR. (2017) Near-shore talik development beneath shallow water in expanding thermokarst lakes, Old Crow Flats. Yukon. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 122: 1070-1089. doi:10.1002/2016JF004022 (post-print copy available here)
Roy-Léveillée P, Burn CR. (2016) Internal topography of drained lake basins in the Old Crow Flats, Y.T. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 41:1504-1520. doi: 10.1002/esp.3918. (pre-print working copy available on Research Gate)
Roy-Léveillée P, Burn CR, McDonald ID. (2014) Vegetation-permafrost relations within the treeline ecotone near Old Crow, northern Yukon, Canada. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 25: 127-125. doi: 10.1002/ppp.1805 (full text available through Research Gate)
Wolfe BB, Humphries MM, Pisaric MFJ, Balasubramaniam AM, Burn CR, Chan L, Cooley D, Froese DG, Graupe S, Hall RI, Lantz T, Porter TJ, Roy-Leveillee P, Turner KW. Wesche SD, Williams M. (2011) Environmental Change and Traditional Use of the Old Crow Flats in Northern Canada: An IPY Opportunity to Meet the Challenges of the New Northern Research Paradigm. Arctic, 64: 127-135.

Book chapters

Roy-Léveillée P, Burn CR. (2016) Old Crow Flats: Thermokarst lakes in the forest-tundra transition. In Landforms and Landscapes of Western Canada, Edited by O. Slaymaker, Springer International Publishing AG: Chams, Switzerland, pp. 267-276. The accepted manuscript is available here. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44595-3_19.

Conference proceedings: articles

Deslauriers C*, Allard M, Roy-Léveillée P. (submitted) Ground temperature responses to climatic trends in a range of surficial deposits near Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik. . In 2021 Regional Conference on Permafrost and 19^th International Conference on Cold Regions Engineering, Boulder, CO, 11-16 July, 2021, American Society of Civil Engineers: Reston, Virginia.
Kirkwood A*, Roy-Léveillée P, Branfireun B, Pakalen M, McLaughlin J, Basiliko N. (submitted) Mercury, methylmercury, and microbial communities in a degrading palsa of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Far North Ontario. In 2021 Regional Conference on Permafrost and 19^th International Conference on Cold Regions Engineering, Boulder, CO, 11-16 July, 2021, American Society of Civil Engineers: Reston, Virginia.
Robinson C*, Roy-Léveillée P, Turner K, Basiliko N (submitted) Impacts of shrubification on ground temperatures and carbon cycling in a sub-arctic fen near Churchill, MB. In 2021 Regional Conference on Permafrost and 19^th International Conference on Cold Regions Engineering, Boulder, CO, 11-16 July, 2021, American Society of Civil Engineers: Reston, Virginia.
Roy-Léveillée P, Burn CR. (2019) Application of an analytical solution for near-shore talik development in expanding, shallow, thermokarst lakes. In 18^th International Conference on Cold Regions Engineering and 8^th Canadian Permafrost Conference, Quebec, QC, August 18-22, 2019 (paper accepted).
Kirkwood A, Roy-Léveillée P, Basiliko N, Packalen M, McLaughlin J. (2019) Evolution of palsas and peat plateaus in the Hudson Bay Lowlands: permafrost degradation mechanisms and the production of greenhouse gases. In 18^th International Conference on Cold Regions Engineering and 8^th Canadian Permafrost Conference, Quebec, QC, August 18-22, 2019 (paper accepted).
Roy-Léveillée P, Burn CR. (2015) Geometry of oriented lakes in Old Crow Flats, Yukon Territory. Paper 284 in 68^th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7^th Canadian Permafrost Conference, Quebec, QC, Sept. 20-23, 2015. (full text available through Research Gate)
Roy-Léveillée P, Burn CR. (2010) Permafrost conditions near shorelines of oriented lakes in Old Crow Flats, Yukon Territory. In 63rd Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 6th Canadian Permafrost Conference, Calgary, AB, Sept. 12-16, 2010, Canadian Geotechnical Society: Richmond, BC. pp. 1509-1516. doi:10.13140/2.1.1332.4167

Keynote presentations

Roy-Leveillee, P. (2018) The influence of vegetation structure on the geomorphic evolution of thermokarst lakes, Old Crow Flats, Yukon. Keynote for Session 10 – Thermokarst lake dynamics across multiple spatial and temporal scales at the 5th European Conference on Permafrost, Chamonix, France, June 23-July 1, 2018.

Conference proceedings: abstracts (see below for proceedings produced by students)

Roy-Leveillee, P. (2018) The influence of vegetation structure on the geomorphic evolution of thermokarst lakes, Old Crow Flats, Yukon. In 5th European Conference on Permafrost, Chamonix, France, June 23-July 1, 2018. (Extended abstract)
Packalen, MS, Pironkova, Z, McLaughlin, JW, and Roy-Léveillée, P. (2017) Permafrost monitoring in the Hudson Bay Lowlands: preliminary results from the Ontario Far North. In 45th Annual Yellowknife Geoscience Forum Abstracts; Northwest Territories Geological Survey, Yellowknife, NT., Compiled by Irwin, D, Gervais, SD, and Terlaky, V. YKGSF Abstracts Volume 2017.
Lewkowicz, AG, Karunaratne, KC, Allard, M, Arenson, LU, Brown, S, Burn, CR, Calmels, F, Doré , G, Dumais, S, Gruber, S, Hoeve, E, Idrees, M, Kokelj, SV, Malenfant Lepage, J, Marsh, P, McLeod, K, Moorman, B, Roy-Léveillée, P, Smith, SL, and Turetsky, MR. (2017) The formation of a Canadian Permafrost Association. In 45th Annual Yellowknife Geoscience Forum Abstracts; Northwest Territories Geological Survey, Yellowknife, NT., Compiled by Irwin, D, Gervais, SD, and Terlaky, V. YKGSF Abstracts Volume 2017.
Roy-Leveillee P, Humphreys ER, Braul CZ, Burn CR.(2016) Carbon mobilization through the expansion of thermokarst lakes in polygonal tundra of Old Crow Flats, northern Yukon. In 11^th International Conference on Permafrost, Potsdam, Germany, June 20-24, 2016. (Extended abstract)

Posters (see below for student posters)

Roy-Leveillee P, Burn CR. (2018) Thermokarst lake expansion and carbon mobilization in polygonal tundra of Old Crow Flats, northern Yukon. In ArcticNet Scientific Meeting 2018, Ottawa, ON, December 10th to 14th 2018. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.7476098
Roy-Leveillee P (2017) Evolution of incipient lowland thermokarst features in the Blackstone River Valley, Yukon. In 45th Annual Yellowknife Geoscience Forum Abstracts; Northwest Territories Geological Survey, Yellowknife, NT., Compiled by Irwin, D., Gervais, S.D., and Terlaky, V. YKGSF Abstracts Volume 2017. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.5786799
Roy-Léveillée P, Burn, CR, Humphreys, E, Braul, Z. (2014) Near-shore talik geometry beneath thermokarst lakes in the Old Crow Flats, Northern Yukon. THAW 2014 – Thermokarst Aquatic Ecosystem Workshop, March 12-15, 2014,Quebec City, QC. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.1087812
Roy-Léveillée P, Burn CR. (2012) Talik geometry and permafrost degradation under thermokarst lakes in the Old Crow Flats, Yukon Territory, Canada. IPY 2012: From Knowledge to Action, April 22-27, 2012, Montreal, QC. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.1061995

Outreach documents and presentations

Smoke E, Roy-Leveillee P, Carlson E, Spade R. (2019) Ethical principles and practices in research involving indigenous communities- panel. Maamwazing Indigenous Research Institute, Laurentian University, Sudbury, 21 March 2019.
Packalan M, Basiliko N, Roy-Léveillée P, Kirkwood A, McLaughlin J. (2018) Peat and permafrost workshop with 1hr oral group presentation. UpNorthonClimate Conference. Thunder Bay, ON, Canada. 24-26 Apr 2018.
Roy-Léveillée P, Burn CR. (2009) Permafrost near lakeshores in Old Cow Flats. In Yeendoo Nanh Nakhweenjit K’atr’ahanahtyaa (Looking after the land for the future): Environmental Change and Traditional Use of the Old Crow Flats in Northern Canada, Progress report to the community, February 2009, pp. 13-14.
Roy-Léveillée P, Burn CR. (2008) Wind, water, and frozen earth: permafrost degradation along lake shorelines. In Yeendoo Nanh Nakhweenjit K’atr’ahanahtyaa (Looking after the land for the future): Environmental Change and Traditional Use of the Old Crow Flats in Northern Canada, Progress report to the community, February 2008, pp. 9-10.

PhD Thesis

Roy-Léveillée P. (2014) Permafrost and thermokarst lake dynamics in the Old Crow Flats, northern Yukon, Canada. Ph.D. thesis, Carleton University: Ottawa, Canada. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1542.1527

Conference presentations by students

Student conference proceedings and oral presentations

Kirkwood A, Roy-Leveille P, Basiliko N, Mykytczuk N, McLaughlin J, Packalen M. (2018) Organic matter decomposability in degrading palsa fields of the Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL), Ontario, Canada. In 2018 International Geographical Union Regional Conference and Canadian Association of Geographer Annual Meeting, Quebec City, QC, August 6-10, 2018. (Abstract) (Poster)
Kirkwood, A, Roy-Leveille, P, Basiliko, N, McLaughlin, J, Packalen, M. (2018) Microbial greenhouse gas production in permafrost peatlands of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada. In 5th European Conference on Permafrost, Chamonix, France, June 23-July 1, 2018. (Extended abstract)

Student posters

Robinson C, Roy-Léveillée P, Hazlett P, Horrigan E, Basiliko N (2019) Comparing the decomposition rates of Betula glandulosa and Carex aquatilis in context of climate-induced “shrubification” of tundra ecosystems. 2019 Canadian Soil Science Society & Canadian Society of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Annual Meeting, July 9 to 13, 2019, Saskatoon. doi:10.60684/m9.figshare.9457145
Kirkwood A, Roy-Léveillée P, Basiliko N, Asemaninejad A, Mykytczuk N, McLaughlin J, Packalen M (2018) Microbial methane and carbon dioxide production in permafrost peatlands of the Hudson Bay Lowlands. American Geophysical Union 2018 Fall Meeting, December 10-14, 2018, Washington D.C, USA.
Remillard-Scott C, Roy-Leveillee P, Sarrazin-Delay, C, Pearson, D (2018) The distribution of permafrost near fort Severn Ontario. In 2018 International Geographical Union – Canadian Association of Geographers – National Conference for Geographic Education, August 6-10 2018, Quebec City. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.7026362
Kerr M, Roy-Leveillee P (2018) The effects of increased ground moisture on permafrost sustainability. In 2018 International Geographical Union – Canadian Association of Geographers – National Conference for Geographic Education, August 6-10 2018, Quebec City. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.6167927
Kirkwood A, Roy-Léveillée P, Basiliko N, McLaughlin J (2018) Greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost in Polar Bear Provincial Park – ᑲᑎᑭᑌᐠ ᐱᑐᐡ ᑲᑎᑭᐠ ᐁ ᐃᔑ ᑭᔑᑲᐠ. Mushkegowuk Climate Summit 2018, January 24-25, 2018, Timmins, ON. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5852010
Ciric E, Roy-Leveillee P (2017) Beaded Streams: A case study in the Blackstone Uplands, Yukon, Canada. Canadian Association of Geographers 2017: Towards a Just and Sustainable World, May 29-June2, 2017, Toronto, ON. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.5786793.v1