NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Chamberland, Joseph
Licensed Year(s): 2016 2015
Summary: The research project Water Ecosystems Monitoring using Earth Observation aims to define an Earth Observation (EO) driven monitoring program to provide information towards monitoring environmental indicators of northern ecosystem health. Once the project is done information on water indicators including water temperature, suspended sediment concentrations, water levels, and ice quality and will be ...

Principal Investigator: Vizina, Yvonne N
Licensed Year(s): 2016
Summary: Interview and collect survey data from educators at select Aboriginal post-secondary places of learning about their sustainability practices and policies, links to community-based conservation practices, and involvement with national and international decision-making processes on environmental issues. Three publishable manuscripts will be produced based on research data including: 1) A manuscript...

Principal Investigator: Chen, Wenjun
Licensed Year(s): 2015
Summary: We have two specific objectives over the next three years: 1) to improve the understanding of the mechanisms responsible for the zone of influence (ZOI) from resource development disturbed areas in the Bathurst caribou habitat, and their relationships with caribou habitat use and productivity, by integrating traditional knowledge, field surveys, and remote sensing technology; and, 2) to investig...

Principal Investigator: Panayi, Damian
Licensed Year(s): 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
Summary: The objective of the Bluefish monitoring programs are is to monitor flow, water levels, sediment deposition, and monitor fish use of the compensation habitat in Bluefish Lake, and fish use of the Yellowknife River as per the Bluefish FAA Fisheries Act Authorization and Water License. The monitoring programs at Bluefish are multiyear programs that are required under the Fisheries Act Authorizati...

Principal Investigator: MacLatchy, Deborah
Licensed Year(s): 2014 2013
Summary: The objectives of this research project are to: 1. Collect and sample small bodied fish species (emerald and spottail shiners) at the same two sites as Sept 2013 (sewage effluent outflow pipe at Fort Smith and upstream near the boat launch) and at other accessible, habitat-appropriate sites (mouth of Salt River, exposed bitumen sites, above the rapids). The fish collections will be conducted acc...

Principal Investigator: Kennedy, Blair E
Licensed Year(s): 2014 2013
Summary: The objectives of the research are: (1) measure the spectral properties (i.e. how light is absorbed and reflected) and biochemical constituents (e.g. chlorophyll, water, nitrogen, carbon) of arctic vegetation at the ground-level in various vegetation communities across the Western Arctic (e.g. low-arctic to high-arctic); (2) investigate the potential of using satellite based multi-angular imaging ...

Principal Investigator: Marken, Sandra L
Licensed Year(s): 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012
Summary: The main objectives of this research project are to: 1. Conduct ongoing monitoring and assessment programs, including areas in the Mackenzie River Special Management Zone (SMZ), for: a) Surface water; b) Groundwater; c) Fisheries and aquatic resources; d) Wildlife and wildlife habitat (including waterfowl, moose, caribou, bear, breeding birds and species at risk); e) Vegetation, rare plants...

Principal Investigator: Bharadwaj, Lalita A
Licensed Year(s): 2014 2013
Summary: In collaboration with the Slave River and Delta Partnership (SRDP) and local communities, the research team will develop a Community Based Monitoring (CBM) program titled the Slave Watershed Environmental Effects Program (SWEEP), to empower communities to collect, interpret and use a system of environmental indicators to address these priorities. The focus will be on indicators of cumulative effec...

Principal Investigator: Jones, Paul D
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021 2019 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2013
Summary: The SWEEP program is being used to establish a community based environmental monitoring program in the Slave River and delta. The project has been funded for 2 years by the Canadian Water Network (CWN) to develop a new 'node' for community based monitoring which is harmonized with those already established by other CWN projects. SWEEP will develop a suite of both 'community based' and 'western s...

Principal Investigator: Byrne, Geraldine
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: The Aquatic Effects Monitoring Plan (AEMP) and Sediment and Erosion Management Plan (SEMP) are requirements under water license MV2011L0002 issued by the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board (MVLWB). The objective of the AEMP is to monitor and identify potential short-term, long-term and cumulative changes throughout the Taltson River aquatic environment. The objective of the SEMP is to identify...