Northwest Territories Research Database

Principal Investigator: Redvers, Nicole
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5401. The Principal Investigator (PI) will carry out focus groups with public and community stakeholders, and interviews with physicians to help identify views on planetary health informed healthcare, views on the introduction of planetary health informed prescribing into the regional health care system, and the potential b...

Principal Investigator: Andrew, Leon
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5402. The aim of this project is to support adaptation of Dene be´re´ (Dene be´re´) systems to climate change through a harvesting and sharing program that includes hunters, women and youth. To do so, the research team propose to increase the communication of knowledge on Dene be´re´ and to build a community harvesting pilo...

Principal Investigator: Evans, Marlene S.
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2017 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5350. The purpose of this study is to continue to investigate whether contaminant (mercury, other metals, persistent organic contaminants) levels are changing in fish in the Northwest Territories with a focus on Great Slave Lake. The research team plan to arrange collections of lake trout from the Hay River area and Lutsel ...

Principal Investigator: Evans, Marlene S.
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5333. This study will determine the concentrations of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in small-bodied fish in the Norman Wells/Imperial area near nature oil seeps and industrial activities with comparisons to be made with upstream (Tulita area) and downstream (Fort Good Hope) areas. The research team will also asses...

Principal Investigator: Fix, Andreas
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5211. This project will use aircraft-based instruments using both remote-sensing and in-situ-techniques to carry out measurements of methane and carbon trace gases and tracers related to their emissions. The results will help to better understand the global methane and carbon cycle. This mission makes use of the German r...

Principal Investigator: Miller, Charles E
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5304. The extended ABoVE Study Area includes most of northwestern North America west of Hudson Bay and north and east of the coastal mountain ranges. It encompasses the variability in the key types of ecosystems that are both unique to arctic and boreal regions in North America as well as being representative of the larger ...

Principal Investigator: Gurney, Kirsty E.
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5262. The research team are proposing to work with community partners to collect samples and analyze data describing concentrations of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (PAC’s) in the Mackenzie River and in other water bodies, along a gradient of environmental disturbance. Specifically, the program will evaluate the relative co...

Principal Investigator: Froese, Duane G
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5318. This work builds on studies over the last several years, including field work in the Mackenzie River valley in 2018 and 2019. The objective of 2021 fieldwork is twofold: 1) characterizing a large suite of retrogressive thaw slumps and thaw-induced landslides in the Redstone, Keele, and Johnson River basins that have i...

Principal Investigator: Skinner, Kelly
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5204. This project proposes to continue investigating the determinants of lead exposure in humans and to assess health risk in the Sahtú region. This project will provide knowledge on potential strategies to reduce the lead exposures in Dene and Métis communities. The research team propose to: 1) Implement the previously...

Principal Investigator: Mamet, Steve D
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021 2020 2019
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5282. Objectives of this research project are to determine: 1) the status of permafrost landforms; 2) long-term recovery after abandonment of the CANOL No. 1 project, including oil spills and gravel pits; and, 3) the status of treeline. The research team will be examining the permafrost by thaw depth probing, and automat...