NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Barnes, Justin
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5523. The objective of this research project is to understand the influence Indigenous Peoples have had as Permanent Participants at the Arctic Council. The Arctic Council is an international forum consisting of the eight Arctic countries and six Permanent Participant organizations representing Arctic Indigenous Peoples. ...

Principal Investigator: Parlee, Brenda L
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5570. The broader hope is to learn more about the benefits of youth involvement in community-led environmental stewardship. The Beluga Whale Monitoring Program has been a successful example of co-management and stewardship which has been in place for many decades. We wish to showcase the benefits of this program to the bro...

Principal Investigator: Nicolsky, Dmitry
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5622. The research team will be visiting the research site in July of 2023 to collect data from existing instruments, as well as upgrade and repair as needed. Instrumentation at the site consists of a 3-meter tripod, a white instrument storage enclosure, and instruments to measure: 1) air temperature; 2) snow depth; 3) so...

Principal Investigator: Nakimayak, Grace Belle
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5663. To collect data, age, quality of residential houses in the community for an average of homes and appliances to map out upgrades and implement energy effiency plans for our homes. A survey collecting various information about quality of materials in the home both interior and exterior. A 5 page paper survey to be c...

Principal Investigator: Mossmann, Bouchra Emilia
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5694. The main objective of this research project is to clarify how Muslims who live around the Arctic Circle make sense of Islam. In the Arctic Circle, Muslim religious traditions seem more challenged than elsewhere. For example, because of the extreme light conditions. Thus, the research team would like to explore: 1...

Principal Investigator: Reid, Thomas
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5507. The objectives of this research are to: 1) Assess the spatial and temporal distribution of particulate and dissolved nutrients/carbon along a large- and small-scale latitudinal gradients in the MRB (I.e. Slave River, Great Slave Lake, Mackenzie River, Laird River, Peel River, smaller headwater streams); Correlate...

Principal Investigator: Williams, Bill
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5753. The objective is continued annual collection of relevant data on aspects the Beaufort shelf marine ecosystem. Research activity in the Beaufort region is a brief mission at sea in the autumn of each year to recover and replace the observing system that acquires these data year round. The research activities at home-b...

Principal Investigator: Pearce, David
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5699. The ArcticAir project will characterize airborne microbial communities in the Arctic region, identify potential drivers, determine the risks of microbial invasion and, most importantly, monitor the interannual variability of these airborne communities and the associated environmental drivers. To this end, we will ...

Principal Investigator: Gibson, Ryan
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5683. The study aims to fill in a literature gap describing government land policy, legislation and regulations in the Northwest Territories historically, and further aims to answer the following questions: - What has been the impact of government land legislation, regulation and policy on housing in the NWT? - How has g...

Principal Investigator: Mercer, Louise
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5704. This research project will feed into a better understanding of effective approaches for community-based environmental monitoring and contribute to a better understanding of contaminants and the role of extreme weather events in the Arctic environment. The objectives of this study are to: 1) analyse the presence of...