1679 record(s) found in the location "Inuvialuit Settlement Region" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Cannabis in Our Communities: A Focus on Youth and Maternal Health and Well-Being
Principal Investigator: Giesel, Chelsea
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5469. The goals of this project are to determine the knowledge, attitudes and behaviours (KAB) of Inuit youth and new or expecting parents in select Western Arctic communities toward cannabis use; and, to share cannabis harm reduction tools and information and assess their effectiveness and determine persisting gaps in cann...


Snow compaction and permafrost monitoring
Principal Investigator: Wilson, Alice
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022 2021 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5475. The primary objective of this research is to determine the influence of snow manipulation on permafrost temperatures in different environments along the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk Highway (ITH). A secondary objective is to better understand the relationship between snow cover and ground surface temperatures in both natural...


Inuit Educators for Inuit Schools: An Investigation of the Factors Associated with Rewarding Teaching Careers in Inuit Nunangat
Principal Investigator: O'Gorman, Melanie
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5397. The short-term objectives of this research project are: 1) to identify factors contributing to Inuit teacher resilience and retention based on analysis of an online survey of Inuit educators and teacher education students; and, 2) to develop policy recommendations based on the survey findings to support Inuit teacher ...


Lake and River Ice Fieldwork in Support of RADARSAT Constellation Mission Image Analysis
Principal Investigator: van der Sanden, Joost J.
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5480. 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. The research team expect the fieldwork to take place on approximat...


Exploring health impacts of COVID-19 on Indigenous Peoples in the Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Chatwood, Susan
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5254. The objective is study the impact of COVID-19 on Indigenous people in the Northwest Territories. The research team hope this study will produce high level policy recommendations for future pandemic response. Furthermore, the team hope the co-development of COVID 19 data and evidence will contribute to the development ...


Bioassay-based investigations on Arctic beluga blubber samples
Principal Investigator: Wania, Frank
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5471. The objectives of this research project are to: 1. Characterize the effects that chemical extracts from the traditional food samples have on a number of cellular processes. Their results can indicate the type of toxicity that those chemical extracts may cause. 2. Use the Arctic beluga as a "clean" reference in inves...


Long-term changes in climate and fire activity in the Mackenzie Delta region
Principal Investigator: Porter, Trevor
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5487. During the 2022 field season, the main objectives are to collect tree-ring and wedge-ice samples that will be studied to better understand changes in climate over the last 11,700 years and to identify lake sites that will be suitable for lake-sediment coring in the early spring field season. This fieldwork will focus ...


Invertebrate paleoecology of the Mackenzie River uplands region
Principal Investigator: Medeiros, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5455. To examine the effects of flooding and permafrost changes on the ecological function and structure of differing lakes in the Mackenzie River uplands region. The research team will drive to sites along the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway to collect 1 litre water samples from a small boat. The research team will be using...


Glacier mass balance of the Melville South Ice Cap
Principal Investigator: Burgess, David O
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022 2021 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5450. The objectives of this integrated monitoring and research project is to provide 1) science based knowledge pertaining to the patterns and rates of climate change, and 2) a quantitative basis for estimating Canada’s contributions to global sea-level rise. Glacier mass balance is defined as the difference between th...


Commnunity-based monitoring of muskox and caribou health in Ulukhaktok
Principal Investigator: Mavrot, Fabien PS
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5440. The research team aim to collect information on population, health and diseases of muskox and on caribou on a yearly basis as they were observed by community-member harvesting those animals. Those information will be pooled together with the data from the existing and on-going sample collection and analysis of muskox ...


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