Polfus’ introduction to the Northwest Territories wasn’t an easy one — “it was completely dark, it was cold and a lot of the meetings happened in Dene language,” she recalls — but, over the course of many conversations with community leaders, she and her local collaborators concocted a visionary project: They would study caribou populations using DNA extracted from scat.
Sie forscht zu natürlichen Ressourcen und der Beginn ihrer Arbeit in den Nordwest-Territorien war alles andere als einfach: ‚‚Es war vollkommen dunkel, kalt und viele Treffen fanden in der Sprache der Dene statt‘‘, erinnert sich Polfus.