NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Mossmann, Bouchra Emilia
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5835. This research project will focus on how Muslims make sense of Islam in environments around the Arctic Circle in Canada. There, religious traditions seem more challenged than elsewhere. For example, because of the extreme light conditions. Research will strive to answer: • How do Muslims in the Arctic live their live...

Principal Investigator: Smith, Sharon S
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5776. This project continues the on-going monitoring program of the same title (Licence # 17182) Permafrost monitoring and collection of baseline terrain information in the Mackenzie Valley Corridor, NWT). This phase of the project is largely data collection. Objectives are: • To provide baseline knowledge of permafrost ...

Principal Investigator: Rutter, Nick
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5822. The objectives of this project are: (1) To develop, deploy, and refine low-cost sensors to measure green house gas (GHG) concentrations. (2) To identify GHG concentration patterns within snowpacks at a landscape scale (1 to 10 square km). (3) To optimise winter carbon cycling in climate models, and scale up simula...

Principal Investigator: Gammon, Paul R
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5828. This project will investigate the permafrost systems that underlie problematic localities along the Dempster Highway. It will link, through geochemical and hydrogeological measurements, the permafrost, groundwater, surface water, soil and dust processes to generate a more wholistic perspective of the permafrost, wate...

Principal Investigator: Morse, Peter D
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5797. 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 first year of field activit...

Principal Investigator: Dunkin, Jessica
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5769. The objectives of this research are: to share the stories of residential school survivors; to provide context for their experiences through related archival research; and to develop materials and resources that reflect and respect their diverse experiences of recreation while at residential school, hostels, and feder...

Principal Investigator: Exner-Cortens, Deinera
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5829. 1) To describe the implementation of WiseGuyz with adolescent boys in the BDDEC,in terms of the lived experiences of a) the youth participants and b) the facilitators/other key program stakeholders in the community. 2) To generate culturally-appropriate knowledge about gender-transformative programs in northern and ...

Principal Investigator: Skinner, Kelly
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5789. 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: Ostertag, Sonja K
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5831. The short-term objectives of this study are to: i) administer a health communication and risk perception survey tailored for the ISR – the Inuvialuit Food Messages Survey; ii) capture Inuvialuit values and perspectives of the country food system through interviews and photos for research and community use; iii) deter...

Principal Investigator: Thériault, Julie Mireille
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5743. The objective of this proposal is to develop a next-generation method to accurately measure Arctic snowfall under a range of environmental conditions typical across the Arctic. The specific objectives are: 1) Measure key snowfall parameters using state-of-the-art instruments as required to estimate snowfall during t...