QRRC Research Activities

Quesnel River Research Centre

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�� South-Central Open House – Quesnel

Jan 22, 2025 - 5:30 pm to 7:30 pmSouth-Central (Quesnel)�� South-Central campus

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Finding keys to salmon resiliency through research

Sustainable fish populations depend on resilient ecosystems. With climate change, habitat loss and other environmental pressures posing significant threats to both fish stocks and their habitats, researchers at ��’s Quesnel River Research Centre (QRRC) are working to understand the impacts of those pressures on salmon and develop strategies to preserve salmon species for future generations.

�� scientists receive $5 million grant for salmon research in Quesnel Lake

While the project focuses on salmon populations in the Quesnel watershed, the team of researchers expects the findings to be application to other large lake systems in the Pacific Northwest undergoing climate change.

QRRC Research Activities

The QRRC supports a wide range of extended field- and laboratory-based projects by faculty members, post-graduates and under-graduates from ��, and other universities and government agencies in BC, Canada and internationally.

Having been established primarily to provide a hub for studies relating to , we aim to facilitate research spanning interactions between the life, terrestrial, freshwater and atmospheric environmental sciences, as well as the socio-economic, cultural and historical components of human-natural systems.

In August 2014, catastrophic failure of the dam containing the tailings pond at the Mount Polley Mine released approximately 25 million cubic metres of sediment and water into Quesnel Lake. This has prompted a wide-ranging investigation of potential impacts on the area's aquatic geochemistry and ecology. Details of the ongoing research project, supported by Environment and Climate Change Canada's Environmental Damages Fund, are provided here.

We encourage researchers, educators and scholars interested in the extraordinary environmental characteristics of the Quesnel River Watershed to base their projects at the QRRC: more information of what we are able to offer is available here.