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Recent project highlights

Migration & Memory

A graphic summary exploring shifts in Western Arctic Caribou Herd migrations relative to collective herd knowledge of past environmental conditions

Next generation Arctic vegetation maps: Abovegound plant biomass and woody dominance mapped at 30m resolution across the tundra biome

Maps of aboveground plant and woody plant biomass across the entire Pan Arctic for 2020.

Mic'd Up: Reindeer Edition

Blog post on testing animal-borne acoustic recording devices on reindeer at the UAF Large Animal Research Center.

Investigating Climate Change’s Impact on Arctic Caribou

An article on the work team members Qianru Liao, Marron McConnell, and Bill Fagan are doing to build maps and statistical models of caribou responses to climate change at the University of Maryland.

Publications & Outreach

About Us

Introducing: The Fate of the Caribou Project (poster)
Gurarie et al. 2023. ​A poster detatailing several of the projects underway at Fate of the Caribou, presented at the 2023 Navigating the New Arctic Community Meeting

Fate of the Caribou: Studying caribou and climate, with communities(article)
Brose et al. 2024. An essay on the Fate of the Caribou project, published in the Xàgots’eèhk’ǫ̀ Journal exploring the connection between our research and people living alongside caribou.

Investigating Climate Change’s Impact on Arctic Caribou (article)
An article on the work team members Qianru Liao, Marron McConnell, and Bill Fagan are doing to build maps and statistical models of caribou responses to climate change at the University of Maryland.

Sharing caribou knowledge: Fate of the Caribou project(article)
Brose et al. 2024. A project highlight shared in the 2024 Caribou Trails newsletter, a publication by the Western Arctic Caribou Herd Working Group. (article on page 5)

Big Picture

Update on the global status of wild reindeer and caribou  (article)
Gunn and Russell, 2022. A brief status update on global caribou & reindeer populations. International Union for Conservation of Nature Deer Specialist Group.

Optimism for Caribou (book chapter)
Gunn et al. 2021. ​A review of caribou in the Canadian Arctic in the book "Lines in the Snow" edited by Clive Tesar and P. Whitney Lackenbauer.

Field diaries from the Arctic (podcast)
Berner, 2023. ​Dr. Logan Berner discusses his work monitoring changes in Arctic vegetation on Polish podcast Radio Kapital.

Rangifer status and trends (presentation)
Gunn, 2023. Dr. Anne Gunn discusses trends in global reindeer and caribou populations as the plenary speaker for the 2023 North American Caribou Workshop & Arctic Ungulate Conference (starts at 18:00)

Pre-print: The practicalities of co-production of knowledge in conserving caribou
Brose et al. 2025. A discussion of lessons learned as Western scientists working with Indigenous communities to conserve threatened species. IUCN Deer Specialist Working Group Newsletter.

Caribou and reindeer population cycles are driven by top-down and bottom-up mechanisms across space and time(scientific paper)
Clark-Wolf ... Hebblewhite. 2025. A global study of how predation and food availability interact to affect caribou and reindeer population cycles. Ecology and Evolution.

The Way is Changing
Brose, 2025. A poem about the perils of migration and persistence of caribou. Published in the Navigating the New Arctic Community Office Nuna Zine (page 75).

Movement

Scientific Papers

Memories of migrations past: Sociality and cognition in dynamic, seasonal environments
Gurarie et al. 2021. A study using computer modeling to examine the social habits of caribou over various space- and time-scales. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

Continental synchrony and local responses: Climatic effects on spatiotemporal patterns of calving in a social ungulate
Couriot et al. 2023. ​A new method for modeling timing of calving shows synchrony of calving events at an unprecidented, continental scale. Ecosphere.

Evidence for an adaptive, large-scale range shift in a long-distance terrestrial migrant
Gurarie et al. 2024. The Western Arctic Caribou Herd has drastically shifted it's winter range in recent years, possibly in response to environmental variation and herd memory about winter conditions. Global Change Biology.

Conservation scientist for MoveApps: Innovations and insights from volunteer coders in wildlife conservation
Kölzsch ... Beaupr​é et al. 2025. A proposal to involve coders as citizen scientists in developing analysis and decision-making tools for wildlife conservation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

Articles & Graphic Summaries

Shifting trails: the shrinking range of Bathurst Caribou
A multimedia essay describing the population crash and range shrinkage of the Bathurst caribou herd in northern Canada

Are Bathurst caribou overlapping more with other herds in winter?
A graphic summary of research on winter range overlap of the Bathurst, Beverly-Ahiak, and Bluenose East caribou herds in Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Printable and full-bleed versions available.

Ası̨̀ı̨̀ Hozı̀ı Goekwǫ̀ xok’e nı̨dè ekwǫ̀ eyıı̀-le xè denahk’e ełeta aget’ı̨?
A graphic summary of research on winter range overlap of the Bathurst, Beverly-Ahiak, and Bluenose East caribou herds. ​Tłı̨chǫ language version. Printable and full-bleed versions available.

Migration and memory
A graphic summary of research on range shifts and social memory in the Western Arctic Caribou Herd

Migration memory: how caribou adapt to changing winter conditions
A news article summarizing our recent findings on the range shift of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd. 

Are migrating caribou losing the collective memory they rely on to survive?
Article by Anne Gunn and Don Russell on caribou population collapse and threats to generational memory, in issue 1.2022 of the World Wildlife Fund's "The Circle" magazine (article begins on page 24)

Collective Movement
A poem on the dynamics of herd-level movement choices by Chloe Beaupre, published in the Navigating the New Arctic Community Office Nuna Zine (page 74)

Conference Presentations & Posters

Complimentary methods for identifying calving grounds of barren-ground caribou
Couriot et al. 2022. A summary of development of new methods to map caribou calving grounds. Joint meeting of the Ecological Society of America and the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution

Differential impacts of environmental conditions and movement behavior on Arctic ugulate survival
Beaupr​é et al. 2023. A talk from the 2023 North American Caribou Workshop & Arctic Ungulate Conference.

Environment

Scientific Papers

Critical summer foraging tradeoffs in a subarctic ungulate
Ehlers et al. 2021. An analysis of the feeding behavior of caribou using video camera collars. Ecology and Evolution.

Mapping tundra ecosystem plant functional type cover, height, and aboveground biomass in Alaska and northwest Canada using unmanned aerial vehicles
Orndahl et. al 2022. A study using remote sensing to map vegetation changes in the Arctic. Arctic Science.

A taste of space: Remote animal observations and discrete-choice models provide new insights into foraging and density dynamics for a large subarctic herbivore
Ehlers et al. 2024. Ehlers and team use cameras attached to tracking collars to investigate caribou foraging at a fine scale. Animal Ecology.

Snowmelt onset and caribou (Rangifer tarandus) spring migration
Matias et al. 2024. A paper describing differences in timing of caribou migration in response to snowmelt and melt-refreeze events. Remote Sensing.

Continental synchrony and local responses: Climatic effects on spatiotemporal patterns of calving in a social ungulate
Couriot et al. 2023. A scientific paper modeling timing of calving at an unprecedented, continental scale. Ecosphere.

The Arctic Plant Aboveground Biomass Synthesis Dataset
Berner et al. 2024. A paper giving details on the Arctic Plant Abovegound Biomass Dataset. Scientific Data. Data available at the Arctic Data Center (link below).

Shifting and expanding ranges of a sub-Arctic caribou herd and associated changes in vegetation
Orndahl et al. 2025. An analysis of range shifts in the Fortymile Caribou Herd in the context of remotely-sensed vegetation changes. Ecological Applications.

Next generation Arctic vegetation maps: Abovegound plant biomass and woody dominance mapped at 30m resolution across the tundra biome
Orndahl et al. 2025. Description of methods and findings from pan-Arctic mapping of plant biomass through 2020. Remote Sensing of Environment.

Articles, talks, and interviews

Watching a Warming Arctic from Space
Dr. Logan Berner discusses his work monitoring changes in Arctic vegetation at the University of Alaska Southeast Evening at Egan speaker series.

Differential impacts of environmental conditions and movement behavior on Arctic ungulate survival
Beaupr​é. 2023. A talk from the 2023 North American Caribou Workshop & Arctic Ungulate Conference.

What can caribou hear? Scientists work to understand impact of noise
An overview of our work using acoustic monitoring to learn how human activity influences caribou. From Cabin Radio, by Chloe Williams

Quirks and Quarks: Testing reindeer hearing
An interview with Megan Perra from CBC Radio, discussing her work using acoustic monitoring to learn how human activity influences caribou.

Using Auditory Recording Units to monitor insect activity and infer harassment intensity
Perra. 2023. A talk from the 2023 North American Caribou Workshop & Arctic Ungulate Conference.

Mic'ed Up: Reindeer Edition
Brose. 2025. Blog post on testing animal-borne acoustic recording devices on reindeer at the UAF Large Animal Research Center.

Caribou and Grizzlies in a New Arctic: an interview with researcher Benjamin Larue
Brose et al. 2025. An introduction to Larue's work using cameras to study interactions between grizzly bears and caribou on the Bathurst herd's calving grounds, in collaboration with the Kugluktuk Angoniatit Association and the Government of Nunavut. Navigating the New Arctic Community Office Nuna Zine (page 28)

Publications