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The sun setting over the Ruby Range Mountains in the Kluane Region. Here in the sub-Arctic, elevation creates the cold tundra environment where trees can’t grow and shrubs and other tundra plants thrive instead. Photo credit: Sandra Angers-BlondinThe drive from Whitehorse to Kluane (Yukon Territory) along the Alaska Highway is always filled with anticipation and excitement, especially when the mountains that will be our home for the next field season appear on the horizon. Photo credit: Sandra Angers-BlondinAlpenglow on the Ruby Range mountains in the Yukon Territory. Going on sampling expeditions to collect plants in the alpine tundra means that we get to share beautiful rugged environments with all sorts of creatures. These moose antlers were found in the tundra near our camp, although most of the daily fauna we encounter are the resident ground squirrels and marmots. Photo credit: Sandra Angers-BlondinRetreating to a tent after a beautiful sunset on the Ruby Range Mountains in southwest Yukon after a day of fieldwork. Photo credit: Sandra Angers-BlondinAn intense sunset casts a fiery glow on the mountaintops around Kluane Lake. In the foothills of the mountain ranges, an old wooden house is the new home for research equipment. The tools inside, some as simple as measuring tape and others a bit more technical like time-lapse cameras, allow us to study vegetation change in high-latitude systems. Photo credit: Gergana DaskalovaThe Aurora Borealis (northern lights) is a beautiful natural phenomenon that happens when charged solar particles enter the atmosphere. We witnessed this display one night in Umiujaq, Northern Québec. Often our trips to the Arctic happen at the peak of summer and the midnight sun stops us from seeing the northern lights flickering above our heads, but an extended field season in August rewarded us with the light display almost every night. Photo credit: Sandra Angers-BlondinThe intense blue of Arctic lupine flowers is an eye-catching sign that the Arctic growing season is in full swing. As we go back to camp after a day of flying drones to track how the landscape changes across the growing season, we walk home through a bed of beautiful Arctic lupines. Photo credit: Jeffrey T. KerbyIt is a relatively steep hike to the top of this peak on the Kluane Plateau, but nothing on the way up prepares you for the alien landscape on the other side. Photo credit: Sandra Angers-BlondinKluane Lake obscured by dust from the dried-up Slims River. This river used to carry meltwater from the nearby icefields into the lake, but a switching of the river channel known as “river piracy” in 2016 left it dry, resulting in sediments being blown over kilometers across the region. Photo credit: Sandra Angers-BlondinThe Ruby Range Mountains looking across to the taller and younger Kluane Range Mountains. One can see the St. Elias Icefields in the background – the largest non-polar icefield in the world, and home to Canada’s tallest mountain Mount Logan. Photo credit: Sandra Angers-Blondin
Clouds rolling over the top of the Kluane Plateau on a warm summer’s day. Video credit: Sandra Angers-Blondin
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Arctic from Above 