NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Morse, Peter D
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6143. The goals of this multi-year-long project are to assess greenhouse gas (methane and carbon dioxide) release from warming permafrost and tundra lakes in the ISR and to study associated carbon dynamics and microbiological processes, including the release of mercury to the environment. The second year (2025) of field...

Principal Investigator: Habel, Michal
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6131. This project aims to map channel-lake hydrological connectivity within the delta plain and evaluate the efficiency of fine-grained sediment trapping dynamics by the channel-lake network, using the Big Lake complex in Inuvik as a case study. We aim to simulate current and potential scenarios of fine-grained sediment t...

Principal Investigator: Logie, Carmen
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6169. The objectives of this research are to: 1. Build capacity and leadership in HIV prevention and research among Northern and Indigenous youth in the NWT; 2. Evaluate the effect of arts-based HIV prevention programs on Northern and Indigenous youth’s HIV and STI knowledge, cultural connectedness, self-esteem, empowe...

Principal Investigator: Mossmann, Bouchra Emilia
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6160. I am interested how Muslims make sense of Islam in environments around the Arctic Circle in Canada. There, their religious traditions seem more challenged than elsewhere. For example, because of the extreme light conditions. Thus, I ask: • How do Muslims in the Arctic live their lives, both as individuals and as a...

Principal Investigator: Lantz, Trevor C.
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6148. The core objective of this research is to work with Inuvialuit and Gwich’in experts to document local observations of environmental conditions. Specifically, we will use semi-structured interviews and, where possible, land-based observation to document environmental conditions with photographs and videos georeference...

Principal Investigator: Wheeler, Helen
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6116. This project will contribute to the BARIN (Beavers And Socio-ecological Resilience in Inuit Nunangat) research program which addresses changing beaver population and the impacts on lakes and streams, fish and communities and wellbeing. This permitting application is for the beaver population change component of the...

Principal Investigator: Kelly, Richard
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6137. The main objectives are: 1. to fly a novel Ku- and L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system over snow covered tundra land, lakes and sea ice in winter to obtain unique radar observations of these environments; 2. to use collected field measurements acquired by ongoing field work by P. Marsh's (PI) group at Trail ...

Principal Investigator: Kokelj, Steve V
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6072. The primary objectives of this research are 1) to develop and test new methods of characterizing permafrost and monitoring permafrost landscape change with a focus on the Beaufort Delta, central Mackenzie Valley and North Slave regions; 2) mapping sensitive permafrost terrain across NWT by integrating expert assessm...

Principal Investigator: Langer, Moritz
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6098. This research aims to describe permafrost conditions and assess environmental risk at several drilling waste sumps in the Mackenzie Delta region, NWT. We have the following specific objectives. Assess the vulnerability of drilling mud sumps in the Mackenzie Delta region under varying site conditions and different ...

Principal Investigator: Voigt, Carolina
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6120. The goal of this research is to explore the importance of greenhouse gas uptake, particularly methane and nitrous oxide, by arctic soils. We want to investigate both the magnitude of methane and nitrous oxide uptake by soils, and more importantly, identify the major underlying biogeochemical and microbial processes t...