NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Insley, Stephen
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6145. The main objective is to assess and mitigate the impacts of increased shipping and sea-ice loss on marine mammals in the eastern Beaufort Sea. The primary methodology is passive acoustic monitoring at the western entrances to the Northwest Passage shipping route, particularly the Amundsen Gulf and Banks Island area. ...

Principal Investigator: Morse, Peter D
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6143. The goals of this multi-year-long project are to assess greenhouse gas (methane and carbon dioxide) release from warming permafrost and tundra lakes in the ISR and to study associated carbon dynamics and microbiological processes, including the release of mercury to the environment. The second year (2025) of field...

Principal Investigator: Logie, Carmen
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6169. The objectives of this research are to: 1. Build capacity and leadership in HIV prevention and research among Northern and Indigenous youth in the NWT; 2. Evaluate the effect of arts-based HIV prevention programs on Northern and Indigenous youth’s HIV and STI knowledge, cultural connectedness, self-esteem, empowe...

Principal Investigator: Lantz, Trevor C.
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6148. The core objective of this research is to work with Inuvialuit and Gwich’in experts to document local observations of environmental conditions. Specifically, we will use semi-structured interviews and, where possible, land-based observation to document environmental conditions with photographs and videos georeference...

Principal Investigator: Wheeler, Helen
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6116. This project will contribute to the BARIN (Beavers And Socio-ecological Resilience in Inuit Nunangat) research program which addresses changing beaver population and the impacts on lakes and streams, fish and communities and wellbeing. This permitting application is for the beaver population change component of the...

Principal Investigator: Kelly, Richard
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6137. The main objectives are: 1. to fly a novel Ku- and L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system over snow covered tundra land, lakes and sea ice in winter to obtain unique radar observations of these environments; 2. to use collected field measurements acquired by ongoing field work by P. Marsh's (PI) group at Trail ...

Principal Investigator: Scharien, Randall
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6130. This research project aims to develop sea ice information retrieval algorithms for satellite data, for safe sea ice travel needs as identified by Inuit (ice roughness, slush, and ice thickness). Information retrieval methods developed for satellite data will be transferred to prototype image product formats represent...

Principal Investigator: Kokelj, Steve V
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6072. The primary objectives of this research are 1) to develop and test new methods of characterizing permafrost and monitoring permafrost landscape change with a focus on the Beaufort Delta, central Mackenzie Valley and North Slave regions; 2) mapping sensitive permafrost terrain across NWT by integrating expert assessm...

Principal Investigator: Langer, Moritz
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6098. This research aims to describe permafrost conditions and assess environmental risk at several drilling waste sumps in the Mackenzie Delta region, NWT. We have the following specific objectives. Assess the vulnerability of drilling mud sumps in the Mackenzie Delta region under varying site conditions and different ...

Principal Investigator: Mahdianpari, Masoud
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6128. Survey the Dempster and ITH highways to measure methane emissions from the highway and correlate those emissions to landscape features (wetlands and small lakes) that are in close proximity to the highway. - Outfit a survey vehicle with a methane sensor and calibrate. Drive the Dempster-ITH highways from the Yuko...