NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Goldfarb, David
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4873. The research team propose to identify the respiratory infection admissions at all hospitals serving Nunavummiut children under one year of age from 2010-2020. The objectives of the study are to 1) determine the rate and outcome of infant respiratory infection hospitalizations; 2) assess the effectiveness of the pa...

Principal Investigator: Spring, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 2021 2019 2018 2017 2016
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4881. The objectives of this research is to support the implementation of the sustainable food systems research and related local food activities in Yellowknife. This will be done through: 1) Working with and supporting local groups (Ecology North and the Yellowknife Farmers Market) to identify community-based strategi...

Principal Investigator: Pacholski, Laura J
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4886. The main objectives of the field work for 2021 will be to determine if the Ekati Diamond Mine is having an effect on the surrounding aquatic environment, wildlife, and air quality; and to provide baseline data for areas where mine development may occur in the future. In winter, water samples will be collected unde...

Principal Investigator: Coad, Abigale
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4911. By conducting interviews with a Yellowknife organization (Dene Nahjo), this thesis seeks to determine the definition of decolonization to Dene peoples and the importance of Indigenous resurgence and land reclamation in the NWT. Decolonization and the NWT will combine community-based research with archival analysi...

Principal Investigator: Christensen, Julia B
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4839. The purpose of this project is to document, assess and evaluate changes to participants' intake of alcohol and cannabis over the duration of the COVID-19 Isolation Shelter Harm Reduction program. In particular, the research team are interested in how a transitional housing program offered in conjunction with a Managed...

Principal Investigator: Jennings, Randi
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4906. The objective of the research is to identify and prioritize possible wildlife management actions to adequately adapt to climate change based on NWT experiences and regional priorities. The research team aim to gather information from around the NWT to adequately assess the public’s thoughts, opinions and recommendatio...

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...

Principal Investigator: Fleury, Katherine
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4869. This study aims to support evidence-informed policy changes in the future by identifying best practice responses to COVID-19 and the processes through which they were created in Canada’s Northwest Territories, understood in a matter that is reflective of the values held by community stakeholders. This project will see...

Principal Investigator: McLean, Sarah C
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4858. The objective of the project is to conduct environmental monitoring of wildlife (incidental observations only), vegetation, air quality, hydrology, and aquatics in the Snap Lake study area. Methods used are outlined in the management and monitoring plans (aquatic effects monitoring program, water management plan [s...

Principal Investigator: Logie, Carmen
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4827. The objectives of this research are to build capacity and leadership in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention and research among Northern and Indigenous youth in the NWT; and, to evaluate the effect of arts-based HIV prevention programs on Northern and Indigenous youth’s HIV and sexually transmitted infection ...