NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Logie, Carmen
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6169. The objectives of this research are to: 1. Build capacity and leadership in HIV prevention and research among Northern and Indigenous youth in the NWT; 2. Evaluate the effect of arts-based HIV prevention programs on Northern and Indigenous youth’s HIV and STI knowledge, cultural connectedness, self-esteem, empowe...

Principal Investigator: Wright, Stephanie
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6167. The goal of this project is to assess the vulnerability of the Whatì community’s drinking water supply well to the impacts of climate change (e.g., permafrost thaw, precipitation changes, contaminant mobilization). A groundwater observation well network will be established to help identify changes to groundwater quan...

Principal Investigator: Menon, Devidas
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6099. The proposed project was developed at the request of the End of Life Unit in the Health Care Programs and Policy Directorate. This project is essential to inform the work of the Federal/Provincial/Terriortial (FPT) working group on MAiD. This 2-phased project has several objectives. First, it will explore existing...

Principal Investigator: Walker, Onyx
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5511. Objectives: This research is qualitative, utilizing participant interviews to explore the research question: What keeps students, aged 12-22, with anxiety, engaged at Mezi Community School in Whatì, Northwest Territories? I will utilize convenience sampling and snowball sampling when securing participants.  There ar...

Principal Investigator: Hare, Karl
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6016. Our objective is to answer two primary research questions: Research Question 1: How can traditional ecological knowledge inform species distribution modeling to predict the occurrence of productive patches? Research Question 2: How might climate change impact the accessibility of northern berries throughout the...

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: 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: Miller, Charles E
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5949. The NASA Dynamic Aviation King Air B-200 aircraft with a hyperspectral (AVIRIS-III) instrument will re-fly lines in the ABoVE study area. The flight teams will be based out of the Yellowknife airfield. The aircraft flies at an altitude between 5 – 15 km. We hope to fly the AVIRIS-III instrument between July 1 – Augus...

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...