NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: McLean, Sarah C
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5766. The goal of this project is to collect environmental monitoring of wildlife (incidental observations only), vegetation, air quality, hydrology and aquatics in the Snap Lake study area. Methods used are outlined in the management and monitoring plans (aquatic effects monitoring program, water management plan [surve...

Principal Investigator: Brown, Joanna
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5626. "The objective of the study is to determine environmental conditions (in particular metal concentrations) in areas of the railbed in close proximity to major water crossings and to them to sit specific target levels defined in the HHERA. The proposed field program will focus on collecting information that is consider...

Principal Investigator: Chasmer, Laura E
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5614. The objectives for this research licence are to compare the fuel characteristics within accessible areas in the Fort Simpson area to collected lidar remote sensing, to develop an ecozone specific fire fuel model; to determine how fire fuels have changed within northern latitudes over time and compare them to the chan...

Principal Investigator: Insley, Stephen
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5559. The main objective is to assess and mitigate the impacts of increased shipping and sea-ice loss on marine mammals in the eastern Beaufort Sea. The primary method used in the completion of this objective will be passive acoustic monitoring of the western entrances to the Northwest Passage shipping route, particularly t...

Principal Investigator: Wheeler, Helen
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5635. The objectives are: To establish the patterns of occupancy of beavers along the Inuvik-Tuk highway. To establish the patterns of past occupancy of beavers along the Inuvik-Tuk highway. To coproduce monitoring methods for ongoing beaver monitoring and research with community researchers. To develop methods for ide...

Principal Investigator: Wheeler, Helen
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5640. Objectives: To address changing beaver population and the impacts on lakes and streams, fish and communities and wellbeing, including: a) research with communities to develop an approach for mapping beaver occupancy using photo, video and drones b) research in to the impacts of beavers on people c) research in...

Principal Investigator: Lacelle, Denis
Licensed Year(s): 2015
Summary: Thaw slumps are one of the most dramatic thermokarst features in permafrost regions. The number of thaw slumps on Banks Island has more than tripled in recent decades and it is likely that this change is altering terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. This multidisciplinary research project investigates the short- (1960s-present day) and long-term (Medieval Warm Period to today) impacts of permafrost...

Principal Investigator: Lajoie, Martin
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: The objective is to examine compliance processes for mining regulation in the North and identify ways in which they can potentially be improved. The research team are six members of an Action Canada Task Force team, coming from various professions and backgrounds across Canada, interested in making a positive contribution to the policy theme: “Applying lessons from Canadian history in the developm...

Principal Investigator: Marshall, John J
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: The objective of this project at Thetis Bay is to ensure there is no unforeseen debris in the water around the caissons prior to moving. The objective at Tuktoyaktuk is to see if the caissons could be moved close enough to shore to offer a benefit to mitigate shore erosion. One small bathymetry vessel would be used in the program and one large Northern Transportation Company (NTCL) mainline tu...

Principal Investigator: Perombelon, Brice B.P
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: The principal researcher wishes to study the environmental impacts of resources extraction projects (present and future) on the community members. The hope is to do this through a survey of their perceptions of environmental problems caused by resources extraction projects (gas & oil) and see whether they think that these projects will create more problems of environmental degradation (for example...