NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Dahlvik, Julia
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5497. This research project pursues a dual perspective: it is interested in both the experiences of citizens and the practices and strategies of public ombuds institutions, that is, what measures they take to ensure equal access to justice for all in the context of increasingly digitalized public services, and with what ef...

Principal Investigator: Kenny, Tiff-Annie
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5503. The aim of the project is to collect new information on the retail food environment, household socio-economic conditions, and food purchases, through both empirical measures and local knowledge. The goal is to shed new light on market food affordability and food security in the ISR, while building local and regional ...

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: Desforges, Jean-Pierre
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5600. The objective of this project is: 1. To collect and cryopreserve living cells spanning the major physiological systems in beluga's at Hendrickson Island. Physiological systems will be target by harvesting cells from the following tissues: blood, liver, adrenals, thyroid, gonad, kidney, and spleen. The desired ou...

Principal Investigator: Ross, Michael
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5488. The objectives of this project are: 1. To assess the integration of the wind energy project into the Hamlet of Paulatuk electric power system. 2. To perform a field review of the Paulatuk electrical power system, develop an electric power system model in relevant software, analyze/simulate the electric power system ...

Principal Investigator: Parlee, Brenda L
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5673. The objectives of this study are: 1. options for elements of the Harvest Study that reflect both scientific best practice and community-specific needs and priorities, including timing of the survey, how to record observations on the health of animals and the land, observations of pressures and stresses on harvest ac...

Principal Investigator: Cherrak, Marion
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5623. This project will be supervised by UNIGE, Geneva University and conducted onboard by Noémie Planat, a PhD student at McGill University. This study will continuously monitor environmental data (greenhouse gasses (carbon dioxide and methane) and standard oceanographic parameters in surface water/water column, and the p...

Principal Investigator: Kunz, Julius
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5655. This project aims to investigate the three-dimensional subsurface structures in the vicinity of active retrogressive thaw slumps and their relationship to spatio-temporal slump-development. The number and activity of retrogressive thaw slumps have increased during the last decades due to climatic, hydrologic and ther...

Principal Investigator: Mochnacz, Neil
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5657. The main objective of this research is to collect eDNA samples to determine the essential habitat requirements of Dolly Varden and to maintain the temperature monitoring network in Fish Creek. For eDNA collection, two litres of water will be collected in the stream and a portable pump will be used to filter the wat...

Principal Investigator: Southcott, Chris
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5574. The goal of the project is to determine the number and types of social economy organizations that currently exist in the North in order to understand the importance of these organizations. The research team are therefore conducting a survey of social economy organizations in the Northwest Territories, Yukon, Nunavut, ...