NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Blair, Willa
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5301. The research team seek not to prove that soaking antlers in water was a definite part of the tool-making process, but rather to open up the possibility that it may have been used to quicken or make the process easier. The antlers are obtained from Reindeer Tours, from Palmer, Alaska. They have been shed from the C...

Principal Investigator: Ashthorn, Heather
Licensed Year(s): 2020 2019 2018 2017 2017 2015 2013 2012 2011 2009 2008 2006
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4585. The objective of this project is to document and assess changing environmental conditions in the range of the porcupine caribou herd and adjacent coastal and marine ecosystems and to share information for co-management. Community based monitors are selected by local Renewable Resource Councils (RRCs) or Hunters and...

Principal Investigator: Anderson, David G
Licensed Year(s): 2016 2015 2014 2013
Summary: The research investigates the relations between dogs, fish, caribou and people. The objective is to have a different understanding of domestication and human-animal relations. This research will use semi-structured interviews and participant observation (spending time out on the land). Interviews: The research team will have 20 in-depth semi-structured interviews of one to two hours with Eld...

Principal Investigator: Charlie, Bella D
Licensed Year(s): 2015
Summary: The objective is to study the changes to the Porcupine Caribou migration route and the effects of increased hunting using the Dempster Highway (located in the NT and YT). The Principal Investigator will video record interviews with Elders and traditional harvesters in Fort McPherson. Interviewees will be ask about how their hunting skills, locations and methods have changed over the past 30 yea...

Principal Investigator: Benson, Kristi
Licensed Year(s): 2013 2012
Summary: The proposed two-year traditional knowledge (TK) study focuses on gathering Gwich’in traditional knowledge of three species of special concern- wolverine, grizzly bear, and woodland caribou - northern mountain population. The TK studies will be led by a Gwich'in Species at Risk (SAR) TK Committee, which will direct the projects and allow information to flow from federal and territorial bodies to c...

Principal Investigator: Van Wyck, Peter
Licensed Year(s): 2012
Summary: This research looks at how northern communities and environmental groups have deployed “public storytelling” to influence public policy in two particular instances related to northern food security and climate change: (1) protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge lands as calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd and (2) regulation of industrial activities in the Arctic Ocean as these ...

Principal Investigator: Archie, Billy
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The goal of this research project is to gather current and traditional knowledge directly from local Elder's/Hunter's that have made observations of the climate changes experienced/observed within the last two decades, and help identify what species have benefited, or what species they think are at risk from climate change. It will validate the elder's and hunter’s knowledge and contribute to com...

Principal Investigator: Thompson, Amy L
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The objectives of this study are to document traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of boreal woodland caribou. The Aklavik Hunters and Trappers Committee (HTC), Aklavik Renewable Resource Council (RRC), Inuvik HTC, Inuvik RRC, Fort McPherson RRC and Tsiigehtchic RRC each will be asked to provide a list of knowledgeable (past and current) harvesters or elders of boreal woodland caribou. A co...

Principal Investigator: Katz, Sharon
Licensed Year(s): 2008
Summary: The objective of this research is to obtain traditional knowledge (TK) about: the feeding and preying habits of wolves; the relative importance of caribou in wolves' diet; the composition and seasonality of wolves diet; wolves’ prey preference; the composition and seasonality of caribou diet; caribou and wolf and oral history information, and compare TK from different regions. The Gwich'in Soci...

Principal Investigator: Smith, Jennifer
Licensed Year(s): 2008
Summary: This license has been issued for the scientific research application #939. The purpose of the study is to document traditional knowledge of the Porcupine caribou herd from the perspective of the Aklavik Inuvialuit. The study will aim to: learn about traditional patterns, movement, numbers, and ecology of the Porcupine Caribou Herd; establish a body of information that can provide background or...