NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Sonnentag, Oliver
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5958. The main objective of this project is to understand the perceptions of Indigenous community members, from the ISR and/or the GSA, of how wildfires have modified, and might modify, the landscape and their relationship with it. The Principle Investigator will conduct a dozen semi-structured interviews with community...

Principal Investigator: Grimwood, Bryan S.R.
Licensed Year(s): 2016 2015 2014
Summary: The purpose of this research has been to work collaboratively with the Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation to reveal and restore Denesoline relationships to the Thelon River watershed. The study has involved three objectives: 1. To foster and celebrate Denesoline cultural livelihoods by recording, experiencing, and exchanging local and traditional knowledge associated with the Thelon; 2. To synthesize,...

Principal Investigator: Armitage, Peter
Licensed Year(s): 2015
Summary: To document Aklavik Inuvialuit Traditional Use (hunting, trapping, fishing, collection of berries, camp locations, travel routes, etc.) and some Traditional Knowledge related to focal species in the context of renewing the Yukon North Slope Conservation and Management Plan. Over a 4-5 week period starting in February 2015, the Principle Investigator (PI) and a community co-researcher will inter...

Principal Investigator: Rice, Keren
Licensed Year(s): 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
Summary: As the community makes the transition to self-government, there has been an increased interest in language documentation through stories, song, and concepts of place in order to better understand what Dene government means. Governance thus forms one focal point of this research. The research team is particularly interested in the areas of variation, change and continuity in language, stories, song...

Principal Investigator: Heck, Darren M
Licensed Year(s): 2013 2012
Summary: The objectives of this project are: a) Inventory of historical and ecological resources in the area; b) past, present and future uses of the area by community residents; c) identification of potential impacts of use of the land use areas supporting access and maintenance (i.e. camps, trails, buffer areas and work areas); and d) provide follow-up mechanism for on-going communication of issues i...

Principal Investigator: Duthie, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 2012 2011
Summary: The objectives of this research are to build up baseline reports on the social/economic and land and resource use conditions in the research area. For the interview-based research: Length of interviews - typically lasting approximately an hour, longer interviews would be confirmed in advance out of respect for people's schedules. Type of Interviews - Personal interviews are carried out wherev...

Principal Investigator: Robinson, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 2012
Summary: The objectives of this research are to build up baseline reports on the social/economic and land and resource use conditions in the research area. The objectives of the Traditional Knowledge (TK) research is to compile a baseline report on TK for future consideration in the Environmental Assessment Socioeconomic Research: Length of interviews - typically lasting approximately an hour, longer i...

Principal Investigator: Coedy, Bill H
Licensed Year(s): 2012
Summary: The primary goal of the project is to document Inuvialuit knowledge of traditional activities and history of the Tununiq area through the collection of oral histories. The gathering of historical knowledge would extend to the more recent land use by industry in the period between 1957 and 1984 for the construction and operation of the BAR-C intermediate Distant Early Warning (DEW) line station and...

Principal Investigator: Fabijan, Michael F
Licensed Year(s): 2012
Summary: The study will focus on collecting information from Inuvialuit elders and harvesters. Of particular interest are community issues and concerns, local knowledge and recommendations with respect to the potential effects of the proposed project. Participants will be asked to discuss their perceptions of the potential effects of the project on community health and wellness, their knowledge of tradi...

Principal Investigator: Vannini, Phillip
Licensed Year(s): 2011
Summary: This research project will unfold as a series of ethnographic case studies focusing on individuals and groups who dwell in households and/or communities removed from one or more grids and different combinations of them. A broad geographic sample also ought to allow for a diverse understanding of off-grid dwelling in rural, insular, coastal, suburban, and urban communities, as well as for taking in...