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Water Quality Monitoring in Tlicho Region, NWT, Canada
chercheur principal: Pacunayen, Jessica L
Année(s) de permis: 2019
Résumé: The overarching goal for this project is to understand how decision-making bodies can make the best use of water quality data from pre-existing water monitoring programs collected by various agencies within the Tlicho region now and in the future. In order to achieve this goal, the Principal Investigator (PI) plans to understand how decision-making bodies within the Tlicho region currently use wat...


NSERC Canadian Lake Pulse Network: more than 660 Canadian lakes sampled over three summers.
chercheur principal: Huot, Yannick
Année(s) de permis: 2019
Résumé: The objective of this project is to evaluate and compare complex and abundant lake ecosystems. This will be addressed through answering these 4 core questions: 1. Where, by how much and why Canadian lakes have changed during the last centuries? 2. How do taxonomic, molecular and biochemical features of planktonic, benthic and microbial communities change with lake alteration and which ones can...


City of Yellowknife Gold Project
chercheur principal: Campbell, Joseph W
Année(s) de permis: 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
Résumé: Follow-up on exploration activity associated with Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board land use permit MV2014C0005 on Terrax Minerals Inc. City of Yellowknife Gold Project. Work would include initial environmental baseline work, and expansion of research programs to establish sufficient study for possible future Environmental Impact Assessment of potential mine development if exploration activiti...


Sustainable Water Governance and Indigenous Law Project
chercheur principal: Bakker, Karen
Année(s) de permis: 2018 2017
Résumé: The goal is to enhance effective, equitable Indigenous co-governance of water resources through pursuing five objectives: 1)Critically conceptualize the potential for reciprocal coordination of, and complementarity between, evolving common ("Western") and Indigenous water law and governance frameworks; 2)Develop innovative methods for co-researching Indigenous Water Governance, based on collabor...


Assessing regulators' information needs to make decisions regarding cumulative effects under the MVRMA
chercheur principal: Noble, Bram F
Année(s) de permis: 2018 2017 2016
Résumé: This project will determine what information Regulators require about cumulative effects or conditions in order to make informed decisions regarding development impacts to water quality in the NWT, and whether and how that information is, or can be, provided through NWT Cumulative Impacts Monitoring Program (CIMP) or other agencies responsible for monitoring. The objectives are as follows: 1)...


Community-Based Water Quality Monitoring in the Northwest Territories
chercheur principal: Beveridge, Meghan
Année(s) de permis: 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013
Résumé: The purpose of the project is to work in collaboration with Northwest Territories (NWT) communities to collect water quality data to answer community concerns and questions about the health of NWT waters, to enhance understanding of cumulative impacts and to contribute to decision making. There are three associated objectives: 1) collect water quality data at locations throughout the NWT, to ...


Developing New Tools for Assessing Legacy Pollutants and their Ecological Consequences in Lakes Near Northwest Territories Mines
chercheur principal: Blais, Jules M
Année(s) de permis: 2017 2016 2015
Résumé: The research team propose to develop tools to assess risks associated with legacy industrial developments in a northern setting. The team will investigate contaminants from the Giant Mine near Yellowknife Northwest Territories (NT), which operated between 1948 and 2004, producing a legacy of contaminants including arsenic, antimony, hydrocarbons, mercury, and others. This remediation strategy appl...


DOC in surface waters in the NWT; implications of a changing climate
chercheur principal: English, Michael C
Année(s) de permis: 2015
Résumé: This research focusses upon dissolved organic carbon (DOC) quantity and quality from a suite of hydrological environments underlain by discontinuous permafrost. The research looks to better understand how water quality will be influenced by a warming climate, with specific attention to DOC, by analysing historical water quality data (30 years) from three local rivers (Yellowknife, Cameron, and Mar...


The prospects for collaborative approaches to transboundary water governance: the Mackenzie River Basin, Canada
chercheur principal: Morris, Michelle J
Année(s) de permis: 2013
Résumé: The primary objective of this research is to determine the extent to which collaboration can contribute to socially and environmentally sustainable transboundary water governance where power asymmetries exist. A secondary objective is to identify strategies and tactics that can be used by less powerful actors to achieve their goals in water management agreements. Data will be collected via sem...


Water and Social Well-being in the Northwest Territories
chercheur principal: Carter, Blair
Année(s) de permis: 2013
Résumé: Four objectives guide this research: 1) to gain an understanding of the current water resource conditions (e.g., quality and quantity) and contextual circumstances (e.g., community culture, history, traditions) impacting local water use in the Deh Cho Region of the NWT; 2) to use a social well-being lens to unpack values that people associate with water resources in the Region; 3) to translate the...


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