Purpose of the YSI is to promote public awareness of science activities in the Yukon, and to aid and facilitate scientific research and development.

Quick Links to the Latest YSI News and Features

  • Next Lecture
    Wildlife and People of the Lakes:
    Some lessons learned in Old Crow Flats
    Murray Humphries, Associate Professor &
    NSERC Northern Research Chair
     Monday, February 22, 2010, 7:30 pm Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre, Whitehorse

  • Yukon Biodiversity Database:
    The new Yukon Biodiversity Database contains descriptions of more than 4200 publications and research projects about the biology of Yukon and the Beaufort Sea.
  • The International Polar Year 2007-2009
    The International Polar Year (IPY) started in March 2007, and ended in March 2009. For more information about IPY, and to review the results of IPY research, go to the website of the IPY Legacy Office or the International IPY site.

  • YSI Membership
    Join the YSI and help promote Yukon science. Sign up at any YSI event or by filling out and sending in the membership form.


  • YSI Membership Survey
    We’d like to know how we’re doing. By filling out our membership survey, you can help us design our speaker series to better meet the interests of our members. .
Yukon Science Institute
P.O. Box 31137, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 5P7
Phone: (867) 667-2979
Email: ysi@taiga.net