NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Blair, Willa
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5301. The research team seek not to prove that soaking antlers in water was a definite part of the tool-making process, but rather to open up the possibility that it may have been used to quicken or make the process easier. The antlers are obtained from Reindeer Tours, from Palmer, Alaska. They have been shed from the C...

Principal Investigator: Ashthorn, Heather
Licensed Year(s): 2020 2019 2018 2017 2017 2015 2013 2012 2011 2009 2008 2006
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4585. The objective of this project is to document and assess changing environmental conditions in the range of the porcupine caribou herd and adjacent coastal and marine ecosystems and to share information for co-management. Community based monitors are selected by local Renewable Resource Councils (RRCs) or Hunters and...

Principal Investigator: Benson, Kristi
Licensed Year(s): 2013 2012
Summary: The proposed two-year traditional knowledge (TK) study focuses on gathering Gwich’in traditional knowledge of three species of special concern- wolverine, grizzly bear, and woodland caribou - northern mountain population. The TK studies will be led by a Gwich'in Species at Risk (SAR) TK Committee, which will direct the projects and allow information to flow from federal and territorial bodies to c...

Principal Investigator: Van Wyck, Peter
Licensed Year(s): 2012
Summary: This research looks at how northern communities and environmental groups have deployed “public storytelling” to influence public policy in two particular instances related to northern food security and climate change: (1) protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge lands as calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd and (2) regulation of industrial activities in the Arctic Ocean as these ...

Principal Investigator: Thompson, Amy L
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The objectives of this study are to document traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of boreal woodland caribou. The Aklavik Hunters and Trappers Committee (HTC), Aklavik Renewable Resource Council (RRC), Inuvik HTC, Inuvik RRC, Fort McPherson RRC and Tsiigehtchic RRC each will be asked to provide a list of knowledgeable (past and current) harvesters or elders of boreal woodland caribou. A co...

Principal Investigator: Wray, Kristine E J
Licensed Year(s): 2008 2007
Summary: The objectives of this study are: 1)Investigate the scope and extent of Aboriginal knowledge networks concerning caribou; to what extent do harvesters draw upon local knowledge, traditional knowledge and/or scientific data generated by government and other sources to make their decisions about where, when and with whom to harvest? 2) Explore the extent to which traditional knowledge, generated...

Principal Investigator: Kovalench, Shelly Ann
Licensed Year(s): 1999
Summary: The objective of this project is to conduct a feasibility study on the use of geographic inforamtion systems (GIS) as tools for long-term monitoring of the Reindeer herd in the Beaufort-delta region. This project will focus on research based in Inuvik using GIS equipment and library resources. Logistical requirements may potentially require travel to Richards Island, Atkinson Point and Husky La...

Principal Investigator: Sims, Richard A.
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: To continue a series of aerial surveys of reindeer rangeland. Some samples of soil and vegetation will be collectd. The objective is to set up and test various types of remote sensing techniques....

Principal Investigator: Calef, George
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To carry out monitoring and research studies of all major caribou herds and wolves which may include marking, tagging and collaring....

Principal Investigator: Wooley, David R.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: Aerial survey of the Bluenose Caribou herd to determine winter distribution in the known winter range and the proportion of the herd wintering on the western portion of the range near the proposed route of the gas pipeline between Inuvik and Fort Good Hope....