CEN Salluit Research Station

The village of Salluit is an observatory site for CEN permafrost studies, led in partnership with the municipality and other agencies. Studies conducted at the CEN Salluit Research Station aim to assess the potential effects of climate change in the continuous permafrost zone. 

CEN Salluit Research Station is owned and run by the Centre d’études nordiques (CEN: Centre for northern studies). The field station (a house) was built in 2011 thanks to a grant acquired from a federal research infrastructure program. The station is composed of a single house that can accommodate up to 6 researchers year-round and a container for storing scientific equipment and tools.

Climatic and environmental data: CEN has collected extensive climate data since 1997 and still operates several climate stations from the CEN SILA Network (https://www.cen.ulaval.ca/en/infrastructures/sila/) in the area. The station also host a magnetometer of the AUTUMNX network managed by Athabasca University (https://autumn.athabascau.ca/).

Nordicana-D: CEN's Nordicana-D series freely and openly give access to online climatic and environmental data reports archived at CEN, aiding the management of the wealth of environmental data sets produced by CEN's monitoring and research activities.

The following data series is available for this area.

Visit the Website to view the complete list of available data.

This station is part of the Canadian Network of Northern Research Operators (CNNRO, https://cnnro.org/) and the international network INTERACT (www.eu-interact.org).

The station is open year-round. To make a reservation, please contact:   station@cen.ulaval.ca or +1-418-656-3340.

For any inquiries contact the CEN secretariat:

station@cen.ulaval.ca or +1-418-656-3340