NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Brown, Kaeleigh
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5510. 1. Scope the existing literature to understand what is currently known about pelvic floor conditions in Indigenous populations worldwide 2. Develop a trauma-informed research framework for circumpolar maternal and child health research projects 3. Describe Indigenous women's experiences with pelvic health condition...

Principal Investigator: Lamontagne-Cumiford, Mathieu
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6100. The climate crisis is being felt deeply in the MacKenzie Delta and intense attention - scientific, political, and otherwise - can be witnessed in the communities there. The pingos and tundra see all manner of scientists and researchers, busily measuring, mapping, and documenting a landscape that is in some places qui...

Principal Investigator: Skinner, Kelly
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6082. The objective of this study is to assess and describe the feasibility, value, barriers and supports, and overall outcomes of the implementation of community freezers in the context of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) of the Northwest Territories (NWT). The study aims to develop an improved understanding of how ...

Principal Investigator: Dibike, Yonas
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6074. Complete on ice snow depth, ice thickness and composition survey on Noell Lake in the spring. Sample locations from previous years are located using a handheld GPS. On ice snow depth is measured using a tape measure. An ice auger is used to penetrate the ice cover and evaluate if white ice is present. If present t...

Principal Investigator: Schwarz, David
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6078. To conduct a solar resource assessment monitoring campaign at the Inuvik Satellite Station Facility (ISSF). NRG Systems designs solar resource assessment systems that suit a variety of climates, terrains, and applications. Aurora Research Institute (ARI) is currently in the process of purchasing three NRG Systems ...

Principal Investigator: Schwarz, David
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6077. To conduct wind and solar resource assessment monitoring campaigns in the communities of Fort McPherson and Tsiigehtchic, Northwest Territories. Lidar has emerged as a powerful tool to remotely sense wind characteristics via measurement of the Doppler shift of light emitted by the lidar and scattered back from par...

Principal Investigator: Schaeffer, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6073. This project aims to better characterize tectonic activity and evolution across the study region through improved monitoring of earthquakes and GPS motions. Using a temporary network of seismometers, we will produce an updated catalogue of earthquakes targeting more precise locations and depths, frequency, and magnit...

Principal Investigator: Shiri, Ali
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6063. The overarching objective of this study is to investigate, co-create, and evaluate an intergenerational digital storytelling mobile application for the Inuvialuit Settlement communities in order to facilitate Indigenous intergenerational knowledge exchange, preservation, and access among the Inuvialuit Elders and you...

Principal Investigator: Singer, Claire L
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6061. In the context of the above (see Rationale), our overarching goal is to complete a territory-wide Indigenous knowledge study to determine what we know about berries, describe any changes that are being seen in berries, identify potential causes of these changes, and outline what further information needs to be collec...

Principal Investigator: Jung, Mary
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6029. The primary aim of this project is to determine awareness of and access to diabetes prevention care offered in Canada among individuals at high risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D). The secondary aims are to a) identify facilitators and barriers to participation in diabetes prevention initiatives, b) gather socio-demographi...