Regions: South Slave Region
Tags: water quality, biology, environmental monitoring, climate change, benthic invertebrates
Principal Investigator: | Levasseur, Annie (6) |
Licence Number: | 16892 |
Organization: | Government of the Northwest Territories, Department of Environment and Natural Resources |
Licensed Year(s): |
2021
2019
2018
2017
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Issued: | Sep 09, 2021 |
Project Team: | Jennifer Lento, Annie Levasseur, Christopher Cunada, Michael Palmer, Andrea Czarnecki, Robin Staples, Jennifer Hickman, Laura Krutko, Catherine Graydon, Nicole Dion |
Objective(s): To establish a baseline for benthic invertebrates’ community structure and composition in the transboundary reaches of the Slave and Hay Rivers, and to track their status and conditions over time to assess ecosystem health and provide an early warning of change or stress in the environment.
Project Description: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5021. The objectives of this project are to establish a baseline for benthic invertebrates’ community structure and composition in the transboundary reaches of the Slave and Hay Rivers, and to track their status and conditions over time to assess ecosystem health and provide an early warning of change or stress in the environment. The monitoring plan includes sampling several 500 m long reaches of shoreline for benthic invertebrates. The sampling method follows a modified version of the Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) protocols developed by Environment and Climate Change Canada. Benthic invertebrates are sampled using a 3-minute travelling kick method, where the sampler holds a sampling net downstream and kicks and disturbs the substrate for a period of 3 minutes moving upstream. The benthic invertebrates collected in the net are t... Show more