NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Korosi, Jennifer B
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6162. Understand and predict how lakes in discontinuous permafrost peatlands are changing in response to climate warming and loss of permafrost. Our field activities for 2023 will focus on three regions/objectives: (1) Inferring long-term environmental change in the Five Fish Lakes (Lue Túé Sulái) – We will collect s...

Principal Investigator: Hori, Yukari
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5627. We will develop a user-friendly online portal that can synthesize and centralize, in one comprehensive network database, climate data and simulations, logistical and operational data, physical, socio-economic, and cultural aspects of winter road/trail networks across Canada’s North. This project assesses the unique m...

Principal Investigator: Quinton, William L.
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6132. The long-term objective of this research programme is to improve the understanding, parameterisation and prediction of water flow and storage processes in peatland-dominated, thawing, discontinuous permafrost. Over the next 5 years, significant progress toward this long term objective will be made through the followi...

Principal Investigator: Menon, Devidas
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6099. The proposed project was developed at the request of the End of Life Unit in the Health Care Programs and Policy Directorate. This project is essential to inform the work of the Federal/Provincial/Terriortial (FPT) working group on MAiD. This 2-phased project has several objectives. First, it will explore existing...

Principal Investigator: Hoffmann, Tanja
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5938. This project aims to engage with the active Pine Point community, the heritage and legacy of the town, and the landscape of Pine Point itself, to explore how a temporary town can have such a lasting impact. The proposed research will use the following methodologies and methods: Archival research: The research t...

Principal Investigator: Belita, Emily
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5950. The objectives of this study are two-fold: 1. To develop and validate national workforce indicators that provide measurable information on the diversity, characteristics, knowledge/skills, and needs of the public health workforce in Canada, and 2. To determine the diversity of the public health workforce in Canada, t...

Principal Investigator: Rosolen, Sarah
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5915. Goals • Identify the best variety of strawberry to grow in various locations on the NWT • Develop best practices for growing strawberries • Engage the communities in growing more food locally • Communicate findings with growers in the NWT and other northern jurisdictions Objectives • Develop agriculture data (...

Principal Investigator: Vaillancourt, Tracy
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5912. We have formed a partnership between the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and created a coalition of experts across Canada to produce a comprehensive data-informed pan-Canadian policy report on pandemic learning loss that is in...

Principal Investigator: Miller, Charles E
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5949. The NASA Dynamic Aviation King Air B-200 aircraft with a hyperspectral (AVIRIS-III) instrument will re-fly lines in the ABoVE study area. The flight teams will be based out of the Yellowknife airfield. The aircraft flies at an altitude between 5 – 15 km. We hope to fly the AVIRIS-III instrument between July 1 – Augus...

Principal Investigator: Low, Mike
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2021 2019
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5590. The objectives of this research project are to: 1) determine why fish mercury levels vary among lakes in the Dehcho region; 2) identify best predictors of fish mercury levels; and, 3) determine with fish have the lowest levels of mercury and the highest levels of nutrients, 4) Collect data on parameters that will b...