Integrated joint-omics data dashboard "EMMERSEV" for assessment and prediction of landscape and climate-change effects in Canadian Arctic freshwater aquatic environments

Funding period: 2024-2029
Lead: Jordyn Broadbent
Total GRDI funding: $225,646

This research will build on previous efforts (STAGE Cycle VII) using advanced joint-omic approaches to assess the role of permafrost thaw and other landscape changes on aquatic carbon cycling in the Canadian Arctic, with intent to identify ‘biomarkers’ of shifting or altered carbon cycling processes. Here, we propose to expand our joint-omics approach to Northern Canada river systems to investigate the role of microbial sediment communities in carbon cycling, ecosystem services, and emerging biological contaminants (i.e., pathogens) in changing landscapes. Applying combinatorial omics approaches alongside advanced geochemical analyses, will increase our predictive capacity of Northern aquatic health, and contribute to the continued development of a novel platform to predict discriminatory 'biomarkers' of altered carbon cycling.