Principal Investigator:Ruttan, Lia Licensed Year(s):
2019
Summary:
The request for a research project to explore the experience, knowledge and methods of former Aboriginal forest firefighters, came from within the community - the community of identity as firefighters within the overall Aboriginal community in Ft. Smith, NT. This project is completing its second year after receiving an original research license and ethics review in February of 2017. It has progres...
Principal Investigator:Ruttan, Lia Licensed Year(s):
2018
2017 Summary:
The objective is to carry out research that records, preserves and shares the knowledge, values, experience and techniques used by former Aboriginal firefighters who worked on fire crews based out of Ft. Smith NT. They have years of accumulated experience fighting fire in the NWT, Wood Buffalo National Park and northern Alberta. The research team aim to carry out research by using Indigenous and c...
Principal Investigator:Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura L. Licensed Year(s):
2018
201720162015 Summary:
The goal of this project is to identify and collect remote sensing and field data to support the science necessary to investigate the impacts and consequences of the 2014-15 wildfires in Northwest Territories, Canada and to better understand the vulnerability of the Carbon-rich boreal peatlands to burning.
Field crews will navigate to pre-selected sample locations and collect at each location: ...
Principal Investigator:Lewkowicz, Antoni G Licensed Year(s):2018
2017
2016 Summary:
The goal of this project is to look at how permafrost is changing following forest fire over a range of environmental conditions, with the purpose of improving how change is modeled in the future. The fires of 2014 in the southwestern Northwest Territories (NWT) provide an opportunity to examine how discontinuous permafrost responds to disturbances. This work is being carried out in collaboration ...
Principal Investigator:Rouse, W. Licensed Year(s):
1976
Summary:
To develop a classification of fire effects on the microclimate of forest and tundra ecosystems....