NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Oberle, Eva
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5746. The Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI) is a self-report questionnaire that gives students a voice by answering questions about their feelings and experiences both inside and outside of school. The MDI uses a holistic, strengths-based approach to measure five dimensions of child development strongly linked to s...

Principal Investigator: Singer, Claire L
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5732. In the context of the above (see Rationale), our overarching goal is to complete a territory-wide Indigenous knowledge study to determine what we know about berries, describe any changes that are being seen in berries, identify potential causes of these changes, and outline what further information needs to be collec...

Principal Investigator: Schwarz, David
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5725. To conduct a wind and solar resource assessment monitoring campaign in the community of Paulatuk, NT. Lidar has emerged as a powerful tool to remotely sense wind characteristics via measurement of the Doppler shift of light emitted by the lidar and scattered back from particles in the atmosphere such as dust, moi...

Principal Investigator: Barnes, Justin
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5523. The objective of this research project is to understand the influence Indigenous Peoples have had as Permanent Participants at the Arctic Council. The Arctic Council is an international forum consisting of the eight Arctic countries and six Permanent Participant organizations representing Arctic Indigenous Peoples. ...

Principal Investigator: Nakimayak, Grace Belle
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5663. To collect data, age, quality of residential houses in the community for an average of homes and appliances to map out upgrades and implement energy effiency plans for our homes. A survey collecting various information about quality of materials in the home both interior and exterior. A 5 page paper survey to be c...

Principal Investigator: Williams, Bill
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5753. The objective is continued annual collection of relevant data on aspects the Beaufort shelf marine ecosystem. Research activity in the Beaufort region is a brief mission at sea in the autumn of each year to recover and replace the observing system that acquires these data year round. The research activities at home-b...

Principal Investigator: Gibson, Ryan
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5683. The study aims to fill in a literature gap describing government land policy, legislation and regulations in the Northwest Territories historically, and further aims to answer the following questions: - What has been the impact of government land legislation, regulation and policy on housing in the NWT? - How has g...

Principal Investigator: Kenny, Tiff-Annie
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5503. The aim of the project is to collect new information on the retail food environment, household socio-economic conditions, and food purchases, through both empirical measures and local knowledge. The goal is to shed new light on market food affordability and food security in the ISR, while building local and regional ...

Principal Investigator: Ross, Michael
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5488. The objectives of this project are: 1. To assess the integration of the wind energy project into the Hamlet of Paulatuk electric power system. 2. To perform a field review of the Paulatuk electrical power system, develop an electric power system model in relevant software, analyze/simulate the electric power system ...

Principal Investigator: Parlee, Brenda L
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5673. The objectives of this study are: 1. options for elements of the Harvest Study that reflect both scientific best practice and community-specific needs and priorities, including timing of the survey, how to record observations on the health of animals and the land, observations of pressures and stresses on harvest ac...