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Early research in freshwater algae of the Canadian Arctic was limited to two major studies. The southern party of the Canadian Arctic expedition (1913-1918) identified 117 taxa, of these 20 were cyanobacteria and 107 were from the traditional Chlorophyta. The sampling was restricted to the mainland and a few coastal islands. The first study of algae in the Arctic Archipelago was in 1939–1940 by Weldon and Ross (1947). Dr. Roy M. Weldon from Cambridge University identified 383 taxa of algae (excluding diatoms) and R. Ross from the British Museum identified 192 diatoms.
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Canadian glacier-monitoring work has traditionally separated along natural geographical lines - the Cordillera and the Arctic. Though mass balance and mass balance-elevation band reporting involved up to 22 glaciers nation-wide in the mid-1980s, the current "official" mass balance program has dwindled to six Arctic and three sites in the Cordillera. The Arctic Islands glacier/ice cap mass balance has been well covered for the past 30-40 years and now forms the world's longest and most continuous polar record38. Several sites in the Cordillera have continuous records exceeding 35 years... the situation is not so favorable as far as spatial representation is concerned. Only 3 glaciers remain of a formerly more extensive network (Helm and Place glaciers: Southern Coast Mountains of British Columbia; Peyto Glacier: Rocky Mountain Eastern Slopes). To address this situation, the Canadian Glacier Variations Monitoring and Assessment Network (CGVMAN) was established in 1993.
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Early expeditions to the Canadian Arctic, such as the Parry Expedition 1819–1820 sampled plants as part of collecting scientific data collecting of the projects (Levere 1993). In the case of the Parry Expedition, approximately 30 type specimens were collected on Melville Island at Winter Harbour. This was probably in the summer of 1820, when the land had ‘warmed’ up and the plants were flowering, while the party waited for the ice to move off the ocean. These type specimens are in a special collection at the British Museum.
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