Clémentine Bouche is an Environmental Assessment Advisor with the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board, based in Yellowknife. She holds a master’s degree in Resource and Environmental Management (Planning Program) from Simon Fraser University, BC. She is working on the assessments of the Mackenzie Valley Highway (Northwest Territories) and the Grays Bay Road and Port (Nunavut). Through the LEAP program, she hopes to better understand permafrost-melt predictions and their impacts on the landscape, people, and infrastructure.