NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Goeckede, Mathias
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5609. As part of the ERC-synergy project Q-Arctic, the research team plans to investigate biogeochemical and biogeophysical processes along transects following landscape gradients. Such gradients include natural variability within heterogeneous permafrost landscapes, such as: a transect from dry upload tundra into a lower ...

Principal Investigator: Hobin, Erin P
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5586. The study has five objectives: 1) To examine prevalence and patterns of non-medical cannabis use, including use among young adults, age of initiation, and levels of dependence; 2) To examine the cannabis retail environment, including the extent to which consumers shift from illicit sources to legal retail sources, and...

Principal Investigator: Wild, Birgit
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5564. The main goal of the project is to understand how gradients in tundra vegetation and permafrost thaw affect soil carbon and mercury cycling. This will allow the research team to assess how permafrost thaw and changes in vegetation in a warmer climate could alter future carbon dioxide fluxes and impact mercury cycling ...

Principal Investigator: Grosse, Guido
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5656. The objective is to conduct airborne surveys at 3300ft (1000m) altitude to collect high-resolution aerial images and LiDAR elevation data that can be used to describe and quantify rates of permafrost thaw, coastal erosion, thaw slumping, lake change, and vegetation change. Daily survey flights (depending on cloud-fre...

Principal Investigator: Wheeler, Helen
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022 2021 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5634. Objectives: 1, To monitor beaver occurrence changes; 2, To assess past beaver occupancy patterns using shrub ring analysis; and, 3, To understand how permanent and transient beaver populations impact their environment. Activities: 1. Conduct canoe and boat-based visual surveys to map beaver distribution in the...

Principal Investigator: Thienpont, Joshua
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5573. To understand how landscape changes caused by climate warming are impacting aquatic ecosystems, particularly lakes and streams. These disturbances focus primarily on permafrost thaw, in the form of thaw slumps and landslides. The understanding derived will allow better understanding of how water quality and aquatic ha...

Principal Investigator: Denning, Bryany
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5472. This analysis will seek to provide more detailed insights into recovery supports and services in the Northwest Territories. Through secondary analysis of the data collected during the Addiction Recovery Experiences Survey, The research team will explore the role of social support in addiction recovery, examine whethe...

Principal Investigator: Miyashita, Tetsuto
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5549. Through this field project, the hope is to accomplish two goals: 1) to fill in a major gap in, and transform knowledge of early vertebrate evolution through the analysis of new fossils from the Anderson River locality, which represent a poorly known interval of the geological time; and 2) to establish a line of publi...

Principal Investigator: Overduin, Pier Paul
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5561. Through ERT and PS methods, the extent and depth will be mapped to the top of ice-bearing permafrost (IBP) offshore of Tuktoyaktuk Island. On land, ERT surveys will also reveal information on permafrost characteristics like ice content, but offshore, tools can only reliably map the thickness of the unfrozen body (tali...

Principal Investigator: Smith, Rod
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5547. This research project proposes to examine the geological characteristics of Cretaceous (~78-88 Ma) metal-rich Smoking Hills Formation mudstones (black shale) and understand the mechanisms by which these metal-rich deposits formed, their extents and stratigraphic variability, and the release of dissolved metals into su...