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Hydrocarbon-derived compounds (anthropogenic and natural) in water bodies in the Sahtú
Principal Investigator: Gurney, Kirsty E.
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5262. The research team are proposing to work with community partners to collect samples and analyze data describing concentrations of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (PAC’s) in the Mackenzie River and in other water bodies, along a gradient of environmental disturbance. Specifically, the program will evaluate the relative co...


Investigating Lead Exposure in the Sahtú region
Principal Investigator: Skinner, Kelly
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5204. This project proposes to continue investigating the determinants of lead exposure in humans and to assess health risk in the Sahtú region. This project will provide knowledge on potential strategies to reduce the lead exposures in Dene and Métis communities. The research team propose to: 1) Implement the previously...


Trails of the Mountain Caribou: Renewing Indigenous Relationships in Conservation
Principal Investigator: Andrew, Leon
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5157. The anticipated outcome of the plan and associated research will be a body of evidence supporting the biocultural and socioeconomic significance of the Ni´o Ne? P’e?ne?´ area, a framework for caribou conservation and habitat protection. Furthermore, the program will support establishment of Indigenous-led Guardian and...


A Youth Centered Approach to Understanding Human Flourishing, Local Food System and Nourishing Communities
Principal Investigator: Henry, Carol J
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5198. The overall purpose of this study is to mobilize Indigenous youth in advancing connection, understanding, and taking collective action to address flourishing through food systems innovations, and community partnerships, including constraints and opportunities to improve the flourishing and that of the communities. ...


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 ...


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