NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Lesack, Lance
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5896. Goal (1) Improve our understanding of methane cycling in Mackenzie Delta lakes and how it is affected by the changing water levels. Goal (2) Decipher the impact of water level changes on the ability of the Mackenzie Delta to affect riverine carbon and nutrient flow to the ocean. Specific activities for the co...

Principal Investigator: Kelly, Richard
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5877. 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 J. Thériault's project (license #5743) at Trail Valle...

Principal Investigator: Sonnentag, Oliver
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5891. The project brings together expertise from historically separated knowledge systems and scientific communities, integrating Indigenous perspectives with atmospheric biogeosciences, ecology, airborne remote sensing, and computer science. The project builds on the collective desire to engage community members in knowle...

Principal Investigator: Kokelj, Steve V
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5855. 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 ass...

Principal Investigator: Poelzer , Greg
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5786. Arctic cities face multiple challenges from social and economic transformations, deteriorating infrastructure, a changing environment, and pressures on their governance systems. To respond effectively, mayors, city councils, agency leaders, local citizens and residents, and other stakeholders need a clear set of indi...

Principal Investigator: Langer, Moritz
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5833. This research aims to describe permafrost conditions and assess environmental risk at several drilling waste sumps in the Mackenzie Delta region, NWT. The objectives of this project are: 1) Assess the vulnerability of drilling mud sumps in the Mackenzie Delta region under varying site conditions and different clim...

Principal Investigator: Goodman, Nicole
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5900. To provide Elections NWT with feedback regarding voter experiences with online voting and how the wildfires may have changed uptake. The survey will be programmed and hosted using the Brock University Qualtrics platform. All persons who voted online will be sent a recruitment email inviting them to take a 5-minute...

Principal Investigator: Denning, Bryany
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5856. This analysis will seek to provide more detailed insights into recovery supports and services in the Northwest Territories. Through secondary analysis of the data collected during the Addiction Recovery Experiences Survey, we will explore the role of social support in addiction recovery, examine whether there are de...

Principal Investigator: Marsh, Philip
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5842. The objectives of this project are to: (1) develop improved understanding of, and ability to predict, the complex northern hydrologic system, (2) consider the integrated effect of the changing climate on vegetation, snow, permafrost, streamflow, and lakes, and (4) develop improved water models needed to predict futur...

Principal Investigator: Oehler, Alexander C.
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5760. This project seeks to create an Inuvialuit-owned database of instances of nonverbal communication with animals and plants that will benefit future hunters, plant gatherers, and game managers, as much as it will enlighten current scholarship on nonverbal interspecies communication. Throughout the duration of the proje...