11 record(s) found in the location "South Slave Region" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Valuation of options for health management of wood bison with community participation
Principal Investigator: Hall, David
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4970. This research has three inter-related goals: 1) Acknowledge stakeholder voices and roles in addressing bison health; 2) Understand stakeholder values, attitudes, and preferences regarding the landscape and bison health management; and, 3) Assess the economic value of bison health management strategies. The research...


Integrating Human Dimensions Research in Wood Buffalo National Park: Understanding Attitudes, Beliefs and Values toward Wood Bison and Bison Management
Principal Investigator: Will, Alice
Licensed Year(s): 2012
Summary: The objective of this research would be to understand public attitudes, beliefs, and values toward wood bison and their management. By addressing key issues and local and Aboriginal attitudes, beliefs and behavioural intention toward wood bison and the diseases that they carry, this applied research will aid in a better understanding of how these community perceptions can contribute to the managem...


The Rangifer Anatomy Project: Linking community and scientific approaches to caribou structure and function
Principal Investigator: Brook, Ryan K
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: The proposed research will develop and evaluate innovative tools and processes to help better understand caribou anatomy and facilitate caribou health. Specific objectives of this project are to: 1. Engage communities in the planning, data collection, interpretation, and integration of traditional knowledge into an anatomical atlas of caribou as a tool to facilitate monitoring the health of t...


Fish Habitat Creation Study, Lutsel K'e and Deline, NWT
Principal Investigator: d'Entremont, Marc
Licensed Year(s): 2004
Summary: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Government of the Northwest Territories is responsible for the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of safe transportation infrastructure, capable of meeting user needs in the NWT. As part of the DOT's o...


Beyond Control: Caribou Co-management and Cross-Cultural Information
Principal Investigator: Kendrick, Anne
Licensed Year(s): 2001
Summary: The study is designed to improve the understanding of cross-cultural differences in the co-management of the Bathurst caribou herd. This study will follow up on major differences revealed in a Man and Biosphere High Latitude Ecosystems Directorate comparative study of the management of the Western Arctic and Beverly-Qamanirjuaq caribou herds. The researcher will assist with the coordination of t...


Temporal Variability of Stable Carbon and Nitrogen within the Food Webs of Wood Buffalo National Park
Principal Investigator: Sotiropoulos, Maria
Licensed Year(s): 2000
Summary: The extensive wetland complex in Wood Buffalo National Park (WBNP) is composed of a mosaic of shallow ponds that are unique in Canada. They are also the nesting grounds of the last migratory population of Whooping Cranes. Water, organic matter, aquatic plants and small aquatic life forms will be sampled from ponds just outside the nesting area and 0.5 km from the highway. The research team will ...


Co-management of Northern Resources: The Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board as an Example of Knowledge Integration.
Principal Investigator: Spak, Stella
Licensed Year(s): 1998
Summary: The objective of this study is to examine the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board (BQCMB) in particular and resource co-management in general. The specific focus will be on their approach toward the necessary integration of different kinds of knowledge and it's ability to respond to specific community concerns and interests. The researcher will conduct open ended interviews aiming at ...


Kennedy Lake Wildlife Monitoring and Traditional Sites Identification Project`
Principal Investigator: Poniatowski, Brian
Licensed Year(s): 1998
Summary: The community monitor will carry out monitoring of wildlife, principally caribou, which are of great importance to the Lutselk'e First Nation. This will be done by directly observing their numbers, sex of animals (if this can be determined), age, condition, movements and behaviour in relation to Kennedy Lake camp and to specific worksites, such as sites where drilling or till sampling are being ca...


The Management of Bisons in Northern Canada
Principal Investigator: Martel, Stephane
Licensed Year(s): 1995
Summary: The researcher will conduct 15 interviews in three communities around Wood Buffalo National Park as part of a study using a systemic methodlogy that includes reviewing official documents and media coverage as well as on site visits....


Genetics and postglacial dispersal of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) and arctic charr (S. alpinus) in the western arctic
Principal Investigator: Wilson, Chris C.
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991 1990
Summary: The researcher will be collecting lake trout and/or arctic charr from lakes in the vicinities of Hay River, Inuvik, Paulatuk and Tuktoyaktuk in order to examine the distributions of these species. Samples of liver and muscle tissue will be collected from these fish for genetic analyses: this research will provide information about how different populations are related to each other (i.e., their o...


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