NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Mariani, Zen
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6096. Acquire new knowledge needed to improve weather and climate forecasts in the polar regions through a better understanding of key physical processes and an improved representation of those processes within numerical weather and climate prediction systems. Cal/val of the planned AOS observations during its preparato...

Principal Investigator: Brown, Kaeleigh
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5510. 1. Scope the existing literature to understand what is currently known about pelvic floor conditions in Indigenous populations worldwide 2. Develop a trauma-informed research framework for circumpolar maternal and child health research projects 3. Describe Indigenous women's experiences with pelvic health condition...

Principal Investigator: Lamontagne-Cumiford, Mathieu
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6100. The climate crisis is being felt deeply in the MacKenzie Delta and intense attention - scientific, political, and otherwise - can be witnessed in the communities there. The pingos and tundra see all manner of scientists and researchers, busily measuring, mapping, and documenting a landscape that is in some places qui...

Principal Investigator: Little, Matthew
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6004. The findings of this work may be used to inform the development of the regional food security strategy through a connection with the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC). Interviews will be coded in collaboration with local/regional Inuit organizations, and results will be compiled into a research manuscript and a p...

Principal Investigator: Hare, Karl
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6016. Our objective is to answer two primary research questions: Research Question 1: How can traditional ecological knowledge inform species distribution modeling to predict the occurrence of productive patches? Research Question 2: How might climate change impact the accessibility of northern berries throughout the...

Principal Investigator: Whyte, Lyle
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6013. The overall goal of this project is to provide a comprehensive evaluation of carbon capture capacity of the northern tree line migration into the northern regions of Canada. Specifically, the research group's objective is to identify if soil and plant root associated microbial communities inhabiting areas very close ...

Principal Investigator: Pollock, Katy
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5991. This project sets out to answer the following questions: a. What evaluation approaches, methods, and tools exist for including children’s input in daycare quality evaluation? b. What are the barriers and facilitators to conducting evaluation in daycares in a way that includes children’s input? c. How can daycare...

Principal Investigator: Rourke, Sean B
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5928. Overall aim: This three-year implementation science program aims to implement and scale up to 100 interactive dispensing systems (IDS) in partnership with community-based agencies across Canada to provide low barrier access to HIV self-test kits, harm reduction and sexual health materials to reach those who are undia...

Principal Investigator: Langer, Moritz
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5987. The aim of the citizen science project UndercoverEisAgenten is to study permafrost changes in the Arctic to raise awareness of these environmental changes and strengthen the data basis for science. Students from Moose Kerr school in Aklavik will design their own permafrost change related research questions and work w...

Principal Investigator: Hodgetts, Lisa
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5980. The draft version of the new Inuvialuit Living History website will be ready in July of 2024. In August 2024, the team will visit Aklavik, Inuvik and Tuktuyaktok to seek community feedback on the website so that they can make any necessary changes before formally launching the site. Similar community visits are plann...