NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Maraj, Ramona
Licensed Year(s): 2005
Summary: In May 2004, the Yukon Government, Department of Environment, in partnership with Parks Canada and the Aklavik Hunters and Trappers Committee, initiated a six-year grizzly bear research project on the Yukon North Slope. This traditional/local knowledge...

Principal Investigator: Bandringa, Robert
Licensed Year(s): 2004 2003
Summary: The goal of this project is to collect and document traditional uses and knowledge of plants in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR), to store this information in a permanent form for future generations of Inuvialuit, to promote and enhance education a...

Principal Investigator: Fabijan, Michael F
Licensed Year(s): 2004 2003
Summary: This study will focus on collecting information from Inuvialuit elders and harvesters, both male and female. 20-25 members from each community will be interviewed. The area of concern will be the lease area (EL 420) and adjacent lands, including Pelly Is...

Principal Investigator: Cardinal, Nathan
Licensed Year(s): 2004
Summary: The objectives of this project are to investigate how traditional knowledge (TK) can be documented, described, and utilized in the species assessment process of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC), and to gather wolveri...

Principal Investigator: Clark, Douglas A.
Licensed Year(s): 2006 2003
Summary: This study aims to gain a greater understanding of how social and cultural contexts influence wildlife management systems, and particularly how people in those systems adapt to change. Grizzly bear management is evolving in different ways in northern and...

Principal Investigator: Fafard, Melanie
Licensed Year(s): 2003 2002 2001 2000
Summary: Working in collaboration with the Gwich'in Social and Cultural Institute, the research will examine how the Gwich'in define heritage and how they wish to preserve and foster an appreciation of that heritage. The research will focus on heritage resources...

Principal Investigator: Evans, Kevin
Licensed Year(s): 2002
Summary: The primary focus of the socio-economic studies will be to identify, collect and verify existing socio-economic baseline information. The specific issues, on which information will be collected, will be determined through consultation with stakeholders a...

Principal Investigator: Salomons, Michael
Licensed Year(s): 2002
Summary: In order to be certain that participating communities are clear as to the use and content of contributed material to be used in the project book and web-site, project staff will verify summarized data with all participating communities. A local elder will be hired to assist with travel to communities (planning, logistics, translation and accompaniment where possible). Community visits will be time...

Principal Investigator: Swystun, Heather
Licensed Year(s): 2002 2001
Summary: Two individuals from each of the communities of Inuvik, Aklavik, Tsiigehtchic, Fort McPherson, and Tuktoyaktuk will be interviewed about their local knowledge of tundra swan biology. Information collected will educate the researcher about local tundra swan ecology and may help generate questions that are important to communities. Interview methods will follow those used by the Arctic Borderlands E...

Principal Investigator: Walker-Larsen, Jennifer
Licensed Year(s): 2002 2000
Summary: Peel River Fish Study: This study attempts to understand the timing of spawning migrations up the Peel River for coney, whitefish, crookedback and herring and to collect baseline information about these spawning populations. Local people with camps along the river are hired to catch and sample fish. The GRRB and DFO provide training, support and report the results of the work. Data collected is be...