NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Gall, Patrick N.
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5158. The goal of this project is to verify that wind LiDaR technology has reached a suitable maturity that it can be used in place of a meteorological tower to perform wind resource assessment in subarctic and arctic conditions. The study will use an existing NRG 60m Meteorological tower located in Norman Wells, and a ...

Principal Investigator: Gall, Patrick N.
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5156. The objective of this solar resource monitoring campaign is to calibrate existing local solar resource monitoring equipment as well as confirm data available through various national and international solar irradiance databases such as the Canadian Weather Energy and Engineering Dataset (CWEEDS). Providing this calibr...

Principal Investigator: Dibike, Yonas
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5155. The objective of this project is to complete on ice snow depth, ice thickness and composition survey along with collection under ice core water quality information. Sample locations from previous years are located using a handheld GPS. On ice snow depth is measured using a tape measure. An ice auger is used to pene...

Principal Investigator: Lantz, Trevor C.
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4753. The core objective of this research is to work with Inuvialuit and Gwich’in experts to document and share local observations of environmental conditions. Over time this will build a record of observations, against which future changes can be compared. To document local observations this research will employ methods in...

Principal Investigator: Stockton, Emma
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5130. The first objective of this research is to understand how ground temperatures vary within the highway embankment between the border on the Dempster Highway and the north end of the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk Highway. The road surface varies little between these points and it is cleared in winter, so conditions should be un...

Principal Investigator: Ravsasian Kashi, Somayeh (Raha)
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5145. Pauktuutit is conducting a research project to study the criminal justice system response to gender-based violence in three regions of Inuit Nunangat—Inuvialuit, Nunavut, and Nunavik—in order to increase awareness and understanding of the needs, challenges, and service gaps that face Inuit women. The primary research ...

Principal Investigator: Etter, Meghan
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5101. The primary objective of the Qanuippitaa? National Inuit Health Survey (QNIHS) is to generate high-quality, Inuit-determined, and Inuit-owned data to monitor changes in Inuit health, identify gaps in health services, and inform health decision-making and programming. The overarching goal is to improve the health and w...

Principal Investigator: Beveridge, Leah F
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4900. This project aims to understand whether reconciliation can happen when working marine safety and shipping issues and how. The goal of this project is to help improve future engagement on marine safety and shipping in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region by talking to Inuvialuit about what has worked well in the past, what...

Principal Investigator: Boike, Julia
Licensed Year(s): 2021 2020 2019 2018
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5023. The goals for this expedition are to test new equipment for characterizing the energy fluxes from and around thermokarst slumps and to establish a baseline for future subsidence measurements. Additionally, lake and atmospheric methane concentrations in relation to thermokarst slumps will be quantified. The research...

Principal Investigator: Bruce, Kai
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4968. The goal of this research project is to understand how Parks Canada’s promises for reconciliation are being fulfilled on the ground. The Principal Investigator (PI) would like to highlight the stories and experiences from Indigenous peoples and communities that speak to the relationships that have emerged from coopera...