NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Hanke, Andrea
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5812. The objective is to develop a collective account of Traditional knowledge around Dolphin and Union Caribou abundance, health, and distribution during and preceding 2024. The key questions being investigated in this study are: 1. What and how do knowledge keepers across the Dolphin and Union caribou range identify...

Principal Investigator: Kelly, Allicia
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2020 2019
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5351. The objectives of this project are to describe different plants and vegetation communities that offer different nutritional value to boreal caribou using both scientific language and traditional knowledge. The research team plan to create a plain-language document(s) that shares information on habitats, vegetation com...

Principal Investigator: Hanke, Andrea
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5146. The goal is to develop a collective account of Kugluktukmiut knowledge around Dolphin and Union caribou abundance, health, and distribution. The key questions being investigated in this study are: 1. What and how do knowledge keepers across the Dolphin and Union caribou range identify and describe as important co...

Principal Investigator: d'Entremont, Marc
Licensed Year(s): 2020 2019 2018
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4630. In 2015-2016, the Deninu Kue First Nation (DKFN) and LGL Limited completed a traditional use study on boreal caribou habitat and habitat use that incorporated traditional knowledge and scientific information in the identification of foraging habitat for boreal caribou in the South Slave region of the Northwest Territo...

Principal Investigator: Danby, Ryan K
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2018
Summary: The two main objectives are: to map changes in vegetation productivity on an annual basis across the Bathurst caribou herd’s range using satellite imagery obtained from NASA’s MODIS sensor (available since 2000) and analyze these data to identify where the most significant changes have occurred; and to collect and analyze data on the growth, establishment, and mortality of shrubs and trees over th...

Principal Investigator: Chen, Wenjun
Licensed Year(s): 2014 2013
Summary: The goals of this research project are: 1. To fill the information gap on Bathurst caribou summer range conditions using satellite remote sensing data and community-based ground vegetation monitoring 2. To develop a cumulative impact assessment method that makes cumulative impact assessment possible even if data are incomplete and provides timely feedback for guiding the refinement of monitoring...

Principal Investigator: Bouckhout, Leo W.
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: As part of an evaluation of the Dempster pipeline route, an aerial survey to determine the geographic extent and numbers of barren-ground caribou wintering in Canada, as well as gross habitat use patterns of caribou....

Principal Investigator: Russell, R.M.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: Continuation of habitat studies of caribou and Muskoxen to determine the food types used by species....

Principal Investigator: Thomas, Don
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To collect data on late winter habitats and diets of carioub on the Boothia Peninsula for pipeline assessments; to determine how long productivity rates can remain at low levels on Melville and Prince Patrick Islands; to examine growth indices of arctic willow and their relationship to past productivity of caribou; to make management of insular and near insular populations of caribou easier and mo...

Principal Investigator: Fischer, Charles
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To carry out caribou habitat studies in the Southern District of Keewatin, Boothia Peninsula and Somerset, Cornwallis, Bathurst, Melville Islands in District of Franklin....