NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: McGetrick, Jennifer Ann
Licensed Year(s): 2014 2013
Summary: The overall objective of the research is to evaluate the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a health communication tool for consultation with stakeholders in environmental assessment of the Nico Project in the Tlicho Region of the Northwest Territories. By documenting stakeholder's evaluation of GIS in the environmental assessment, the research will help to inform best practices and pr...

Principal Investigator: Simmons, Deborah L
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: The objectives for year one of this three year program is to work with community members to scope out whether and how the community would like to be involved in research related to abandoned mines. Some topics for discussion will be: • Looking back on the Canada-Déline Uranium Table process and recommendations • Giving guidance about how new research can benefit the community and create new know...

Principal Investigator: Fawcett, Skya
Licensed Year(s): 2007 2006 2005
Summary: Antimony originating from the operation of the Giant Mine will be studied to determine mobility, speciation, movement in the environment, and the geochemical controls on its release and attenuation. Dialysis arrays (peepers) will be used to collect pore waters from Baker Creek and Baker Pond on the Giant Mine site, and corers will be used to collect six cores from three aqueous environments on ...

Principal Investigator: Galbraith, Lindsay
Licensed Year(s): 2004
Summary: This research is concerned with increasingly fractious relations between mining firms and local communities in Canada's hinterlands, and the systems of governance that aim to mediate these relations. More specifically, this research seeks to understand t...

Principal Investigator: Kalin, Margarete
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To compile and provide an analysis of the environmental status of "Hardrock" mining sites in the NWT and Yukon which became inactive before the year 1983....

Principal Investigator: Smith, Geoffrey
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To determine extent of radioactive contamination of abandoned mines at Rayrock and Port Radium....

Principal Investigator: Taylor, Mary J.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To study how the mineral projects have affected the residents and communities....