A University of New Brunswick researcher investigating how declining sea ice affects the entire ecosystem has recently returned from her first scientific expedition to the Queen Elizabeth Islands.

The Queen Elizabeth Islands are the northernmost group of islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, which is home to about 14 per cent of the world’s glaciers and ice caps.

Audrey Limoges was on the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Amundsen, making its first trip to these islands. Limoges has been going to the Arctic since 2013 for research purposes.

She believes th e changing sea ice in the Arctic is something everyone should care about.

“What is happening in the North will actually and is already impacting the system, the Earth system, as a whole,” said Limoges, a paleontology professor

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