NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Winter, Jennifer
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5281. The key objective of the Community Engagement Program is to hear about and document resident and community perspectives on local and regional socioeconomic priorities, concerns, and goals in the context of existing, planned, and potential infrastructure development in the territory. This will provide decision makers a...

Principal Investigator: McDonald, Mandee
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5345. This research explores the work of an informal collective or network of (predominantly) Indigenous women who are regenerating Indigenous thought and political systems through hide tanning. It is an Indigenous feminist research project that explores contemporary hide tanning initiatives amongst Indigenous peoples in or...

Principal Investigator: Hamel, Emilienne
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5245. The objectives of this project are to contribute to the territorial government’s groundwater monitoring plan by establishing baseline conditions for solutes in the local groundwater around the solid waste facility. The research team aim to improve current groundwater vulnerability frameworks to account for anthropogen...

Principal Investigator: Matsuura, Yojiro
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5340. Main objective of the project is to re-start and maintain study sites after two growing season without any census and sample collections. The research team will also establish additional study sites for regeneration process and soil condition monitoring (detection of permafrost table depth). The team will try again to...

Principal Investigator: Brown, Jennifer M
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5336. The purpose of the Wetland Delineation Study is to define the flow paths of effluent from the treatment lagoon to Great Slave Lake and thereby inform sampling design of the Great Slave Lake Monitoring Program. The objectives of the Wetland Delineation are varied and, based on available documentation, we understand the...

Principal Investigator: Kheyrollah Pour, Homa
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5335. This proposed research is directed at understanding the impact of current/future climate warming on subarctic lake ecosystems. The aim is to explore the relationship of seasonal lake ice growth/ablation and water quality across a wide range of lake characteristics (size, volume, productivity, catchment characteristics...

Principal Investigator: Kalinovich, Indra
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5312. The objective of this project is to address the data gaps at the Thompson-Lundmark Mine site. The data collected from the field program will be used to inform the future Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessments in order to achieve appropriate remedial objectives for the site to satisfy the Federal Contaminated Sit...

Principal Investigator: Lupien, Pascal
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5309. The goal of this project is to conduct research working directly with Indigenous women and gender-diverse people in Latin America and northern Canada/Turtle Island to research, develop and implement digital solutions that will give them more power both within and outside of their communities. The objectives of this pr...

Principal Investigator: Chin, Krista
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5328. The objective of this project is to collect water quality data from regionally-representative lakes that can inform resource management decisions on cumulative impacts within the Northwest Territories (NWT). Using a computer program the research team will select 30 lakes within the Daring Lake area based on expect...

Principal Investigator: Fix, Andreas
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5211. This project will use aircraft-based instruments using both remote-sensing and in-situ-techniques to carry out measurements of methane and carbon trace gases and tracers related to their emissions. The results will help to better understand the global methane and carbon cycle. This mission makes use of the German r...