Steven Kokelj is a Canadian environmental scientist. Meagan Wohlberg, writing in the '' Northern Journal'', called him NWT's foremost expert on

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. Kokelj's

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thesis, published in 2003, was entitled, ''"Near-surface Ground Ice in Sediments of the Mackenzie Delta Region, Northwest Territories"''. Since then Kokelj has held several research positions in the

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. In 2014 Kokelj was the very first speaker invited to lead off a series of talks on Northern issues, hosted in NWT's legislative assembly. The talks were modeled after the TED conferences, and the legislature has made them available via podcast.

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