NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Ross, Guylaine Danielle
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5740. To address community concerns about aquatic ecosystem health and water quality. Community members were trained to use the following equipment: • YSI sondes: sit in the water and measure basic water quality parameters every 2 hours for up to 3 months. Analysis undertaken at ECC. • Grab water samples: measure bas...

Principal Investigator: Lantz, Trevor C.
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5908. 1) Use remote sensing (Landsat, QuickBird, InSAR, Airphotos, and Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems (RPAS)) to document regional landscape change (tundra fire, infrastructure, saline flooding, slumps, subsidence, vegetation change, lake drainage / expansion, etc.). 2) Use field sampling and monitoring to determine the c...

Principal Investigator: Wheeler, Helen
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5909. 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 a) research with communities to develop an a...

Principal Investigator: Wheeler, Helen
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5910. 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 s...

Principal Investigator: Kokelj, Steve V
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5855. 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 ass...

Principal Investigator: Poelzer , Greg
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5786. Arctic cities face multiple challenges from social and economic transformations, deteriorating infrastructure, a changing environment, and pressures on their governance systems. To respond effectively, mayors, city councils, agency leaders, local citizens and residents, and other stakeholders need a clear set of indi...

Principal Investigator: Goodman, Nicole
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5900. To provide Elections NWT with feedback regarding voter experiences with online voting and how the wildfires may have changed uptake. The survey will be programmed and hosted using the Brock University Qualtrics platform. All persons who voted online will be sent a recruitment email inviting them to take a 5-minute...

Principal Investigator: Denning, Bryany
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5856. This analysis will seek to provide more detailed insights into recovery supports and services in the Northwest Territories. Through secondary analysis of the data collected during the Addiction Recovery Experiences Survey, we will explore the role of social support in addiction recovery, examine whether there are de...

Principal Investigator: Parlee, Brenda L
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5883. The main output of the project will be options for elements of the Harvest Study that reflect both scientific best practice and community-specific needs and priorities. The elements in question are timing of the survey, how to record observations on the health of animals and the land, observations of pressures and st...

Principal Investigator: Oehler, Alexander C.
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5760. This project seeks to create an Inuvialuit-owned database of instances of nonverbal communication with animals and plants that will benefit future hunters, plant gatherers, and game managers, as much as it will enlighten current scholarship on nonverbal interspecies communication. Throughout the duration of the proje...