Congratulations to Samuel Gagnon, PhD student in the department of geographie at Université Laval under the supervision of CEN researcher Michel Allard for winning the 2018 George Hobson award of the Northern Scientific Training Program (NSTP). He was given the 1000$ award for his project intitled "Geomorphological and ecological interactions affecting permafrost thaw in the Narsajuaq river valley, Nunavik, Canada".