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
20202019 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:Blair, Willa Licensed Year(s):
2022
Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5301.
The research team seek not to prove that soaking antlers in water was a definite part of the tool-making process, but rather to open up the possibility that it may have been used to quicken or make the process easier.
The antlers are obtained from Reindeer Tours, from Palmer, Alaska. They have been shed from the C...
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:Ashthorn, Heather Licensed Year(s):2020
2019
2018201720172015201320122011200920082006 Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4585.
The objective of this project is to document and assess changing environmental conditions in the range of the porcupine caribou herd and adjacent coastal and marine ecosystems and to share information for co-management.
Community based monitors are selected by local Renewable Resource Councils (RRCs) or Hunters and...
Principal Investigator:Laurent, Cyrielle C Licensed Year(s):
2017
Summary:
This project aims to demonstrate the cumulative impact of permafrost degradation and forest fire on boreal caribou habitat and how caribou habitat degradation affects Jean Marie River First Nation (JMRFN). To do this the research team will collect and use traditional knowledge (TK), and analyse it in a geographic information system (GIS) with scientific data. The research team expect to locate are...
Principal Investigator:Pellissey, Jody Licensed Year(s):
2017
20162015 Summary:
The long-term objective of this project is to document todzi sites associated with habitat that remain undisturbed and others where habitat has been burned by wildfires. The research team will focus on the research/monitoring questions of ‘when do todzi return to and stay in an area that has been burnt.
This year the team is scoping places where todzi have been watched and hunted overtime. The...
Principal Investigator:Simmons, Deborah L Licensed Year(s):
2016
201520142013 Summary:
The main objective of this project is to support the wildlife management initiatives proposed by the Renewable Resource Councils (RRCs) in the Sahtú Region through the development of a robust research program that incorporates multiple sources of knowledge into a detailed understanding of caribou and moose populations. The objectives are to monitor caribou and moose health and understand populatio...
Principal Investigator:Anderson, David G Licensed Year(s):
2016
201520142013 Summary:
The research investigates the relations between dogs, fish, caribou and people. The objective is to have a different understanding of domestication and human-animal relations.
This research will use semi-structured interviews and participant observation (spending time out on the land).
Interviews: The research team will have 20 in-depth semi-structured interviews of one to two hours with Eld...
Principal Investigator:Benson, Kristi Licensed Year(s):
2013
2012 Summary:
The proposed two-year traditional knowledge (TK) study focuses on gathering Gwich’in traditional knowledge of three species of special concern- wolverine, grizzly bear, and woodland caribou - northern mountain population. The TK studies will be led by a Gwich'in Species at Risk (SAR) TK Committee, which will direct the projects and allow information to flow from federal and territorial bodies to c...