689 record(s) found in the location "Sahtu Settlement Area" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Canada Learning Loss Report
Principal Investigator: Vaillancourt, Tracy
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5912. We have formed a partnership between the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and created a coalition of experts across Canada to produce a comprehensive data-informed pan-Canadian policy report on pandemic learning loss that is in...


NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) Airborne Flights 2023
Principal Investigator: Miller, Charles E
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5949. The NASA Dynamic Aviation King Air B-200 aircraft with a hyperspectral (AVIRIS-III) instrument will re-fly lines in the ABoVE study area. The flight teams will be based out of the Yellowknife airfield. The aircraft flies at an altitude between 5 – 15 km. We hope to fly the AVIRIS-III instrument between July 1 – Augus...


A Century of Petroleum Extraction at Tłegǫ́hłı̨ (Norman Wells): Indigenous Knowledge for Indigenous Guardianship
Principal Investigator: Andrew, Leon
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5959. This project will explore Dene and Me´tis knowledge about the cumulative impacts (CI) of a century of petroleum operations at Norman Wells and downstream, supporting meaningful Indigenous contributions to decisions about closure and reclamation, strengthening Indigenous stewardship roles, and providing education and ...


How are changes on the land affecting water resources around Fort Good Hope and Ts’ude Niline Tuyeta?
Principal Investigator: Comte, Jerome
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5930. This project proposes to evaluate responses of aquatic ecosystems to permafrost thaw, lake drying, and wildfire, as well as their cumulative impacts. Lake chemistry and biological diversity (microbes and invertebrates) in water (current environmental change) and in sediments (historical change) will be characterized,...


Advancing Indigenous self-government: Inter/national relations in the Canadian context
Principal Investigator: Burns, Nicole
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5893. The purpose of this study is to gain an in-depth understanding of the self-government processes that currently exist for Indigenous nations within Canada. The objective is to examine the gaps between self-government theory (and law) and the practice and implementation of self-government from a global human rights and...


NWT-wide Community based Water Quality Monitoring
Principal Investigator: Ross, Guylaine Danielle
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5740. To address community concerns about aquatic ecosystem health and water quality. Community members were trained to use the following equipment: • YSI sondes: sit in the water and measure basic water quality parameters every 2 hours for up to 3 months. Analysis undertaken at ECC. • Grab water samples: measure bas...


GEM Geo-North: Cretaceous black shales and glacial history in the central Mackenzie
Principal Investigator: Smith, Rod
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5903. The objectives of the research are: (1) to understand what the chemical and biological characteristics of the Little Bear Formation bedrock unit and other shales from the underlying Slater River and Canol formations are, in order to understand if they could be introducing dissolved heavy metals and high acidity level...


Temporal trend studies of trace metals and halogenated organic contaminants (HOCs) including new and emerging persistent compounds, in Mackenzie River burbot, Fort Good Hope, NWT (2024-2025)
Principal Investigator: Stern, Gary
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5906. Short-term goals are to determine if burbot contaminant concentrations: • Are above or below Health Canada guidelines (i.e. <0.5 ppm mercury per gram fish). Annual data will be provided to NWT Health and Social Services for evaluation; • Are associated with dietary indicators, i.e. stable isotope ratio data (15N, 1...


Spark the Fire: Policy Strategy for Retention and Support of Indigenous and Northern Youths' Pursuit of Healthcare Careers in the Northwest Territories (NWT)
Principal Investigator: Robitaille, Andréanne
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5645. The proposed study is a Community Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) project. Inspired by the Tli?cho framework, Strong Like Two People, this project aims to highlight the importance of making space for traditional knowledge and ways of being within Western, medical and scientific spaces. The overarching go...


Mapping, monitoring and modelling permafrost change in the NWT
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...


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