NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

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Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6186. This study aims to conduct an environmental scan and research priority-setting exercise to identify and address healthcare disparities impacting children using HMV in rural and underserved areas of Western and Northern Canada. The specific objectives are: 1. To understand the lived experiences of family caregivers r...

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Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6003. Telecommunications services in remote communities of northern Canada are usually more expensive, slower, less available, less reliable, and of lower quality regarding service compared to their southern and urban counterparts. The global pandemic has further highlighted the digital divide and broadband service dispari...

Principal Investigator:
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6203. This project seeks to understand how childhood and family life has changed over time in the Tli?cho region, and how knowledge should be brought forward to ensure strong future generations. This four year project builds upon initial research and project development to host community meetings, family story gathering...

Principal Investigator:
Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6168. The primary objective of this study is to use dendrochronology to analyze jack pine tree-ring records in the Yellowknife region to reconstruct past climate variability and assess the impacts of recent climate change on the boreal forest ecosystem. This research aims to extend historical climate records beyond the ins...

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Licensed Year(s): 2025
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6165. To assess the impacts of climate change and wildfire on lake and fish health. Tli?cho Elders will identify two study lakes, each in either a burned or unburned catchment. Together with local land monitors, we will assess and compare abiotic (water quantity, quality, flow rate, and temperature, lakebed structure, d...

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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 ...

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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:
Licensed Year(s): 2025 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 6167. The goal of this project is to assess the vulnerability of the Whatì community’s drinking water supply well to the impacts of climate change (e.g., permafrost thaw, precipitation changes, contaminant mobilization). A groundwater observation well network will be established to help identify changes to groundwater quan...

Principal Investigator:
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:
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...