NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Blowes, David W.
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5492. The objective of this project is to characterize the geochemical evolution of the waste-rock contained in Pigeon waste-rock storage area to refine management solutions for this waste stream. The proposed research activities will involve field collection of Pigeon waste-rock samples and installation of monitoring eq...

Principal Investigator: O'Keefe, Harry
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5422. The main objectives of the field work for 2023 will be to determine if the Ekati Diamond Mine is having an effect on the surrounding aquatic environment, wildlife, and air quality; and to provide baseline data for areas where mine development may occur in the future. In winter, water samples will be collected unde...

Principal Investigator: Hall, Rebecca J
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: Objectives for this project are to: 1) reveal community development goals and strategies in communities navigating the closure of an extractive project through talking circles and interviews; and, 2) facilitate vision and knowledge sharing between and within extraction-affected communities through talking circles, and community presentations. The primary mode of data collection will be activi...

Principal Investigator: Hall, Rebecca J
Licensed Year(s): 2014
Summary: The objective of this research is to analyze the way women's labor in Yellowknife (both paid and unpaid labor, including care for children and family members) has changed as a result of diamond mining. Related, it will explore the way relations within families may or may not have shifted, and the ways the nature of violence against women in Yellowknife may or may not have shifted as a result of th...

Principal Investigator: Sturm, Matthew
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: Research goal is to understand how changes in the seasons, particularly the shortening of winter, might impact the economics of the North. In Canada the researcher will focus on the impact of ice road seasons on diamond mining. Research activities will mainly be to observe how environmental data are collected in the field, how they are utilized by regulatory agencies to make decisions, and how bu...

Principal Investigator: Noakes, Jamie L
Licensed Year(s): 2007
Summary: The objectives of this study are to: examine conditions of the resource development leading to diamond tourism and existing conditions in the development of diamond tourism; identify the opportunities and constraints of diamond tourism in Yellowknife; describe the outcomes in the social economy that result from the development of diamond tourism. The researcher will initially be contacting betw...

Principal Investigator: Hauck, Ariana L
Licensed Year(s): 2006
Summary: The aim of this Master’s-level research project is to document local community members’ experiences in relation to diamond mining. The project will entail evaluating the perspectives of the residents of Fort Smith to understand the positive and negative effects of diamond mining on the lives of local people. Approximately twenty community members will be initially interviewed. Based on recomme...

Principal Investigator: Horrocks, Kim
Licensed Year(s): 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2002 2001 2000 1999
Summary: The objective of the program is to continue collecting environmental measurements pertaining to aquatic and terrestrial resources. This will be the seventh year of monitoring and baseline data collection. Monitoring will continue throughout the lifetime...

Principal Investigator: Liber, Karsten
Licensed Year(s): 2001
Summary: The research team will be transported to Long Lake by aircraft, and will travel by truck on the mine site. Sample collection will be carried out using a motorized boat. Water and phytoplankton samples will be collected using a 10 L Go-Flo water sampler. Zooplankton samples will be collected using a zooplankton net. There are three taxa of freshwater zooplankton that may be collected from Long ...

Principal Investigator: Whitney, Candace
Licensed Year(s): 2000
Summary: The Coppermine River basin has significant mineral resources including diamonds as well as base and precious metals. In the early 1990s, the Slave Geological Province experienced a dramatic increase in mining activity when diamonds were discovered in the middle of the West Kitikmeot/Slave area at Lac de Gras. Northern ecological systems are particularly at risk to impacts of mining and other land...