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Airborne Electromagmetic Survey to Map Permafrost in the Central Mackenzie Valley
Principal Investigator: Rudolph, David
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5240. Within the Central Mackenzie Valley of the Northwest Territories (NWT), discontinuity and rapid change within the regional permafrost is anticipated to be influencing landscape, habitat and ecosystem characteristics along with presenting challenges for the stability of constructed infrastructure. Mapping the nature an...


Meltwater drainage through the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, during the last deglaciation
Principal Investigator: Stoker, Benjamin James
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5163. In this project the research team aim to investigate the meltwater drainage and deglacial history of the Laurentide Ice Sheet from the eastern slopes of the Mackenzie Mountains since the last ice age. The research team will reconstruct the past meltwater flow characteristics (discharge and velocity) through a series o...


Governing Energy System Change in the Canadian Arctic: Alternative Sources of Innovation in Communities?
Principal Investigator: Mallett, Alexandra
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5165. Along with community partners, the project will seek to determine: 1) the extent to which changes are occurring with respect to electricity generation and use at the community level in three communities in NWT; 2) how, what and who is involved in the governance of energy within communities and how this is evolving; an...


Eyes and Ears of the North: Canadian Northern Sovereignty and the Canadian Ranger Patrol Group
Principal Investigator: Romagnoli, Bianca
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5083. The objective of this research is to examine the experiences of Canadian Rangers within the 1st Canadian Ranger Patrol Group (1CRPG). Through this research, the private investigator(PI) will investigate how Rangers become implicated in nation-building efforts by the Canadian state. After increased interest in the lucr...


Fish Habitat and Hydrotechnical Assessments along the Proposed Mackenzie Valley Highway
Principal Investigator: Chiperzak, Doug
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5060. The goal is to collect baseline fish, fish habitat and hydrotechnical data for selected watercourses along the proposed Mackenzie Valley Highway to support engineering design and the regulatory process. Fish habitat will be assessed along 100 m reaches upstream and downstream of each potential watercourse crossing....


Spatial and long-term trends in persistent organic contaminants and metals in fish from the Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Evans, Marlene S.
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5031. The study is continuing to investigate whether contaminant levels are changing in fish in the Northwest Territories with a focus on Great Slave Lake which we have been studying since the early 1990s. The research team plans to collect lake trout from Great Slave Lake (Hay River area and Lutsel K’e area and also plans ...


RESPCCT: Research Examining the Stories of Pregnancy and Childbearing in Canada Today
Principal Investigator: Vedam, Saraswathi
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4895. The goal of this project is to develop a valid and reliable person-centered survey to measure the quality of maternity care in Canada among people with various identities, according to the WHO criteria for Respectful Maternity Care and mistreatment. The research team consists of a Steering Council of 10 community m...


Food Security Initiatives across the Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Skinner, Kelly
Licensed Year(s): 2021 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4936. This research aims to learn from and enhance community capacity to address priorities and inform both climate change and food security action and support-structures at local, regional, and territorial scales. This research will examine questions related to food security and climate change across the four cross-cut...


Northern Water Futures Baseline Environmental Monitoring
Principal Investigator: Baltzer, Jennifer L
Licensed Year(s): 2021 2019 2018
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4983. The overall objective is to understand existing and potential impacts of climate change and resource development in the Sahtú region on four key aspects: 1) the landscape, 2) vegetation, 3) water resources, and 4) aquatic ecosystems. Specifically, the team seek to understand: a) terrain instability due to permafrost t...


Land-based/Environmental Social Work Practice: Learning from Social Workers’ in the Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Labron, Meg
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4850. The purpose of this research is to address the gap in social work knowledge and literature regarding how environmental social work practice is done (re: a clearly defined practice model), by speaking to social workers in the Northwest Territories who are doing this type of work. This thesis research has 4 objectiv...


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