NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Scharien, Randall
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6130. This research project aims to develop sea ice information retrieval algorithms for satellite data, for safe sea ice travel needs as identified by Inuit (ice roughness, slush, and ice thickness). Information retrieval methods developed for satellite data will be transferred to prototype image product formats represent...

Principal Investigator: Kokelj, Steve V
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6072. The primary objectives of this research are 1) to develop and test new methods of characterizing permafrost and monitoring permafrost landscape change with a focus on the Beaufort Delta, central Mackenzie Valley and North Slave regions; 2) mapping sensitive permafrost terrain across NWT by integrating expert assessm...

Principal Investigator: Langer, Moritz
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6098. This research aims to describe permafrost conditions and assess environmental risk at several drilling waste sumps in the Mackenzie Delta region, NWT. We have the following specific objectives. Assess the vulnerability of drilling mud sumps in the Mackenzie Delta region under varying site conditions and different ...

Principal Investigator: Voigt, Carolina
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6120. The goal of this research is to explore the importance of greenhouse gas uptake, particularly methane and nitrous oxide, by arctic soils. We want to investigate both the magnitude of methane and nitrous oxide uptake by soils, and more importantly, identify the major underlying biogeochemical and microbial processes t...

Principal Investigator: Mahdianpari, Masoud
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6128. Survey the Dempster and ITH highways to measure methane emissions from the highway and correlate those emissions to landscape features (wetlands and small lakes) that are in close proximity to the highway. - Outfit a survey vehicle with a methane sensor and calibrate. Drive the Dempster-ITH highways from the Yuko...

Principal Investigator: Engelstad, Anne-Michelle (Annie)
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6064. The project objectives are to 1) Understand traditional and contemporary cultural beliefs about supporting young children with exceptional needs, 2) Identify community-based supports for children and their families as well as barriers to accessing such supports; and 3) Highlight practices informed by Inuit knowledge ...

Principal Investigator: van der Sanden, Joost J.
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6038. This project aims to collect field data for use in the development of methods that will enable the application of images from Canada’s RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) to the mapping and monitoring of river and lake ice properties and processes. We expect the fieldwork to take place on approximately six days o...

Principal Investigator: Ostertag, Sonja K
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6103. This project hasthree main objectives: 1) To combine traditional knowledge and academic science tools to co-develop traditional knowledge and food calendars in the ISR; 2) To learn about the country foods eaten by Inuvialuit children, youth, adults and Elders in the ISR, how this has changed over time and if there ...

Principal Investigator: Kruse, Stefan
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6086. Our aim is to monitor vegetation changes in current climate warming for simulating past and future dynamics with an individual-based spatially explicit model (LAVESI). Therefore, our intentions are: 1. assessing stand inventories at diverse bioclimatic and environmental settings by a space-for-time approach 2. gat...

Principal Investigator: Houde, Magali
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6035. The objectives of the project are to 1) analyze temporal and spatial trends of mercury, other metals, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), and new chemicals of concern in ringed seals using annual collections across Inuit Nunangat, 2) Evaluate relationships between contaminants in ringed seals and changing environme...