"I'll be looking at materials from the 1970s — letters, reports, and the like — to understand the Arctic of that time and how it relates to today," said Stuhl. "For me, it will be like traveling in the Arctic — it's just that I'll be doing it in a dusty corner in a library in Ottawa."

Getting from archive to Arctic might require some imagination, but it helps that Stuhl has set foot in the far north before. After earning his first master's degree in 2007, he spent a year working as a volunteer in the predominantly Inuit town of Inuvik, Northwest Territories, just inland of the Beaufort Sea and two degrees north of the Arctic Circle.

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