NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

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 (...

Principal Investigator: Roberts, David J
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5952. During the summer of 2023, wildfires in the Northwest Territories forced the evacuation of over 20,000 people from Yellowknife. Due to climate change, wildfire risk continues to increase and Canadian cities such as Yellowknife must grapple with how to prepare, respond to, and recover from disasters while also priorit...

Principal Investigator: Vaillancourt, Tracy
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5912. We have formed a partnership between the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and created a coalition of experts across Canada to produce a comprehensive data-informed pan-Canadian policy report on pandemic learning loss that is in...

Principal Investigator: Miller, Charles E
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5949. The NASA Dynamic Aviation King Air B-200 aircraft with a hyperspectral (AVIRIS-III) instrument will re-fly lines in the ABoVE study area. The flight teams will be based out of the Yellowknife airfield. The aircraft flies at an altitude between 5 – 15 km. We hope to fly the AVIRIS-III instrument between July 1 – Augus...

Principal Investigator: Mehra, Akshay Karankumar
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5571. For much of Earth’s history, microbes have been the only forms of life on our planet. As a result of this dominance, the sedimentary rock record is full of physical and chemical evidence of microbial activity. Stromatolites, which are laminated buildups constructed, or aided, by microbes, are one kind of microbial fo...

Principal Investigator: Ross, Guylaine Danielle
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5740. To address community concerns about aquatic ecosystem health and water quality. Community members were trained to use the following equipment: • YSI sondes: sit in the water and measure basic water quality parameters every 2 hours for up to 3 months. Analysis undertaken at ECC. • Grab water samples: measure bas...