NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Henderson, Rita
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5629. Research Question: What unexpected or unusual changes in wildlife populations have researchers, community members, and professionals from various sectors observed while living or working in the Arctic? The main objectives are to: - Identify any potential, previously unknown unusual wildlife events (e.g. altered b...

Principal Investigator: Wheeler, Helen
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5635. The objectives are: To establish the patterns of occupancy of beavers along the Inuvik-Tuk highway. To establish the patterns of past occupancy of beavers along the Inuvik-Tuk highway. To coproduce monitoring methods for ongoing beaver monitoring and research with community researchers. To develop methods for ide...

Principal Investigator: Wheeler, Helen
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5640. Objectives: To address changing beaver population and the impacts on lakes and streams, fish and communities and wellbeing, including: a) research with communities to develop an approach for mapping beaver occupancy using photo, video and drones b) research in to the impacts of beavers on people c) research in...

Principal Investigator: Hanke, Andrea
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5483. Develop a collective account of Traditioncal knowledge around Dolphin, Union (DU) caribou abundance, health, and distribution during and preceding 2024. The key questions being investigated in this study are: 1. What and how do knowledge keepers across the Dolphin and Union caribou range identify and describe as imp...

Principal Investigator: Mavrot, Fabien PS
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5353. This project aims at analyzing available archived Grizzly bear samples and collecting new Grizzly fecal samples as well as samples of animal and plant species that are possibly part of the diet of Grizzly bears around Ulukhaktok to create baseline knowledge on the number of resident Grizzly bear around Ulukhaktok and ...

Principal Investigator: Clarkson, Peter
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The researcher will conduct surveys to determine bear population estimates as well as sex and age distributions for the grizzly bear population in the Brock and Hornaday Rivers area. Licence issued for use of Inuvik Research Centre....

Principal Investigator: Stabler, Matt
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The Beluga Harvest Monitoring Program is an on-going program conducted by the Fisheries Joint Management Secretariat that involves the monitoring of the beluga harvest in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. Data and samples are collected from harvested whales in order to assess contaminant levels as well as population and reproductive parameters....

Principal Investigator: Cubbage, James
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: As part of a species management programto conduct population counts of bowhead whale calves....

Principal Investigator: Vincent, Don
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: To conduct aerial surveys of muskoxen for population census purposes....

Principal Investigator: Henry, J. David
Licensed Year(s): 1976
Summary: To conduct ecological and behavioral research on the arctic fox population of Banks Island by investigating the effects of oil exploration on the fox population to provide base line information to improve fox management....