NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Davidson, Debra
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5981. The objectives include: Build positive relations between university researchers and the Tli?cho communities; co-create knowledge that is of equal value to the Tli?cho people and to scholarship; enhance the capacity of the Tli?cho people to pursue a sustainable future in accordance with Tli?cho values based on finding...

Principal Investigator: Belita, Emily
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5950. The objectives of this study are two-fold: 1. To develop and validate national workforce indicators that provide measurable information on the diversity, characteristics, knowledge/skills, and needs of the public health workforce in Canada, and 2. To determine the diversity of the public health workforce in Canada, t...

Principal Investigator: Grogan, Paul
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022 2021 2019
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5982. The objectives of this research project are: 1) To determine the biogeochemical and ecological significance of the discovery that mesic tundra plant growth can be co-limited by nitrogen and phosphorus. 2) To predict the likely impacts of climate change as well as declining caribou and other mammalian herbivory, on tu...

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...

Principal Investigator: Ackerson, Michael Robert
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5862. Use small (several kg) samples of ancient rocks and minerals from the Slave Craton to investigate the long-term evolution of continental crust on the early Earth and the onset of plate tectonics. Field Methods: In the field, we will employ standard, low-impact field observations and sampling of rocks exposed at th...

Principal Investigator: Komarnisky, Sara V
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5895. This is a two year project that will fund community meetings, family story gathering, and creative and academic work in two communities in the Tli?cho region, Wekweètì and Gamètì. This initial work will contribute to the development of a bigger project involving the entire Tli?cho region and all four communities (Beh...

Principal Investigator: Johnson, Noah
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5874. The objective of the study is to collect environmental data surrounding the Giant Mine to serve as a baseline, before remediation efforts, to move the treated water discharge to Yellowknife Bay. These activities are also to assure the community that the Giant Mine Remediation efforts are improving environmental quali...

Principal Investigator: Lafleur, Peter M
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2021 2019
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5782. The overall goal of this project is to increase knowledge of how tundra environments interact with the atmosphere and predict how changing tundra vegetation will affect future climates. Tundra ecosystems exchange energy, water and carbon gases with the atmosphere, which are important elements of the climate system. A...

Principal Investigator: Goodman, Nicole
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5900. To provide Elections NWT with feedback regarding voter experiences with online voting and how the wildfires may have changed uptake. The survey will be programmed and hosted using the Brock University Qualtrics platform. All persons who voted online will be sent a recruitment email inviting them to take a 5-minute...

Principal Investigator: Butsang, Tenzin
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5836. This project aims to address the following research questions: (a) How do Tli?cho youth understand the community strengths, challenges and needs related to substance use in the Tli?cho region? (b) What existing services and initiatives may be strengthened to promote healing and wellness?; and (c) How can local knowle...