NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Spence, Christopher
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5545. The objective of this research is to determine how climate warming and permafrost presence influence the water cycle and water chemistry of Taiga Shield streams. The proposed work will take place within a research basin framework. The proposed watershed, the upper reaches of Baker Creek, is a typical Taiga Shield ...

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: Mossmann, Bouchra Emilia
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6160. I am interested how Muslims make sense of Islam in environments around the Arctic Circle in Canada. There, their religious traditions seem more challenged than elsewhere. For example, because of the extreme light conditions. Thus, I ask: • How do Muslims in the Arctic live their lives, both as individuals and as a...

Principal Investigator: Jones, Sarah
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6135. To support environmental review of the Project, and namely, the preparation of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), research is required for the People and Communities section. Reporting on baseline conditions and Project related effects on People and Communities requires both secondary research and supplemental...

Principal Investigator: Hayward, April
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6157. The objective of the baseline data collection programs is to characterize existing conditions in the Project area. Desktop and field-based baseline studies will focus on characterizing air quality; light and noise; climate and meteorology; surface and ground water quantity and quality; geochemistry; fish, fish habita...

Principal Investigator: Vosko, Leah
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6119. The overall project has four main objectives: 1. Trace IMPs (International Mobility Program) policy pathways in three national contexts with particular attention to migration policy development, transfer, and diffusion, connecting these programs as outgrowths of historical efforts designed to attract settlers to the...

Principal Investigator: Kokelj, Steve V
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6072. The primary objectives of this research are 1) to develop and test new methods of characterizing permafrost and monitoring permafrost landscape change with a focus on the Beaufort Delta, central Mackenzie Valley and North Slave regions; 2) mapping sensitive permafrost terrain across NWT by integrating expert assessm...

Principal Investigator: Schultz, Alison
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6024. This study seeks to discover the ways in which emergency of wildfires in the Northwest Territories (NWT) reveal incidents of constant emergency, such as pregnancy health. My research will ask: In what ways does wildfire evacuation, response, and emergency preparedness redefine birth evacuation in the Northwest Territ...

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: O'Neill, H Brendan
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6071. This activity describes and predicts the occurrence of discontinuous permafrost to assist in planning, development and maintenance of community and industry infrastructure. Changes in climate, and disturbances like wildfire are affecting permafrost distribution, temperatures and geotechnical conditions. Different lan...