Photo: Nunavut sea cans transform into self-powering research labs

These sea cans at the Cam Main North Warning site in Cambridge Bay don’t look like their neighbours; they’re getting re-purposed as mobile research facilities. Equipped with wind turbines and solar panels, the sea cans are insulated, wired and include toilets and wate purification systems. The two-year, $3.5 million project, funded by the Arctic Research Foundation and the federal government, through the Canadian High Arctic Research Station or CHARS, aims to transform the sea cans into research labs, with one possibly earmarked for an archaeology lab near the wreck of the HMS Erebus near King William Island. Six sea cans arrived in western Nunavut this past summer — five in Cambridge Bay and one in Gjoa Haven. (PHOTO BY JANE GEORGE)