NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Clark, Douglas A.
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: This research will integrate and map polar bear knowledge systems, and translate findings into a community-based monitoring protocol that will track polar bear population responses to environmental change. Research questions include:1) Are polar bear science data, existing Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), and historical records from the fur trade,explorer’s personal accounts and government ...

Principal Investigator: Maraj, Ramona
Licensed Year(s): 2011 2010
Summary: The researcher will gather local and traditional knowledge related to the population status of polar bears, and the influence that climate change has had on polar bears and their habitat in the Beaufort Sea. The information from interviews will be used to develop a description of acceptable management practices and management goals for polar bears. The researcher can then compare that information ...

Principal Investigator: Berkes, Fikret
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: This project aims to understand how co-management helps the people of Tuktoyaktuk to deal with environment and resource problems. The researcher hopes to look at the role of the FJMC, and the exchange of knowledge between the Inuvialuit and government scientists. Through meetings with Burton Ayles and Sheila Nasogaluak as well as a joint FJMC/DFO meeting, the Husky Lakes beluga entrapment issu...

Principal Investigator: Pilz, Krista
Licensed Year(s): 2004
Summary: The purpose of this thesis research is to examine the role that Donald Marsh, the second Anglican Bishop of the Arctic, had on development of northern social policies specifically regarding wildlife management, education, health care, and family welfare....

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: Povey, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 2003 2002
Summary: Noise monitoring will be conducted in the Taglu lease and in the Swimming Point, Parsons Lake and Jimmy Lake regions. These data will provide estimates of background ambient noise which will be needed before construction of the Mackenzie Gas Project. Pr...

Principal Investigator: Johnston, Brian
Licensed Year(s): 1995
Summary: Assess the processes by which the mandates of cooperative wildlife management in the national parks are achieved in the Inuvialuit Settlement region. Examine the relationships and attitudes of the responsible organizations in order to reach a qualitative assessment of the operational side of wildlife management in the region....

Principal Investigator: Kofinas, Gary P
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: The aim of this project is to analyze the participation of community members in decision-making for the purposes of co-managing the Porcupine caribou herd. The study will examine the costs and benefits of community involvement, the role of information and communication in decision-making, and the effectiveness of this management system in meeting community needs. The study will include the commu...

Principal Investigator: Notzke, Claudia
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The Researcher will collect information for a book on aboriginal natural resource management in Canada. The focus of the work will be concentrated with wildlife co-management, native participation in the design, use and management of new national park reserves and the question of how the settlement of claims ties in with current land use planning practices....

Principal Investigator: Morgan, James P.
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: This project was identified by the CPS as essential to effective co-management of wildlife in northern national parks. A broader look at how each park implements co-management and how other agencies have been successful in co-managing wildlife is required to form a formulate a consistent approach across the northern national parks system....