NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Nichols, Claire
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5997. The team proposes to target the areas near Bell Lake and between Dwyer/Homer Lakes, since these are well-studied, with high resolution geological maps already published in the literature and new U-Pb ages have recently been acquired for many of the rocks here, which will be key for interpreting the age of magnetizati...

Principal Investigator: Hoffmann, Tanja
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5938. This project aims to engage with the active Pine Point community, the heritage and legacy of the town, and the landscape of Pine Point itself, to explore how a temporary town can have such a lasting impact. The proposed research will use the following methodologies and methods: Archival research: The research t...

Principal Investigator: Pollock, Katy
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5991. This project sets out to answer the following questions: a. What evaluation approaches, methods, and tools exist for including children’s input in daycare quality evaluation? b. What are the barriers and facilitators to conducting evaluation in daycares in a way that includes children’s input? c. How can daycare...

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: Palmer, Mike
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5974. The specific research objectives are: 1) to implement a geologically-based classification scheme to group permafrost lake types for the range of biophysical environments encountered across the NWT; and 2) to determine whether these lake types can be distinguished by their physical and water chemistry characteristics....

Principal Investigator: Smith, Alison
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5976. This project aims to understand the governance of homelessness, including barriers to collaborative governance, in small, mid-sized, and northern communities in Canada. I have a SSHRC funded project to study this, and have started research in small and mid-sized cities in BC, Ontario, and Quebec. This summer, I would...

Principal Investigator: Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura L.
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5972. The overall goal of the proposed research is to improve understanding of the controls and impacts of a changing climate on the vulnerability and resiliency of boreal-taiga ecosystems to wildfire. This is being addressed through field sampling and process-based ecological and hydrological modeling of the 2014-2016 wil...

Principal Investigator: Hunter, Mikayla Heather
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5875. Research Goals 1. Evaluate the existing Health Care for Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender Nonconforming People: Guidelines for the Northwest Territories. 2. Based on feedback from both patients and providers, develop recommendations to improve this document and reduce barriers to accessing gender affirming and tr...

Principal Investigator: Rosolen, Sarah
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5915. Goals • Identify the best variety of strawberry to grow in various locations on the NWT • Develop best practices for growing strawberries • Engage the communities in growing more food locally • Communicate findings with growers in the NWT and other northern jurisdictions Objectives • Develop agriculture data (...