Grants and Contributions

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

This project will develop a community-informed monitoring framework for small northern lakes near Yellowknife by combining field-based water quality measurements with satellite imagery to better understand the impacts of climate change and permafrost thaw. Through data collection on indicators such as turbidity, dissolved organic carbon, and algae levels, the project will calibrate satellite observations to enable long-term, cost-effective monitoring of multiple lakes.

This project will strengthen community-based wildlife health surveillance for caribou and muskoxen in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut by expanding monitoring, improving data sharing, and increasing northern training opportunities. Led through partnerships among northern communities, Indigenous organizations, governments, and researchers, the project combines Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western science to better understand wildlife health threats, support conservation and public health decisions, and enhance food security and sovereignty. By maintaining a northern research hub in Yellowknife and growing surveillance efforts into new regions, the project will build local capacity and improve long-term monitoring of Arctic wildlife health.

This project will reconstruct Antarctic climate variability over the past 2,000 years, with a particular focus on understanding historical precipitation patterns, using ice-core isotope records and innovative climate-mode statistical methods.

This project will combine Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and scientific research to better understand winter groundwater movement and the formation of overflow water hazards along important overland travel routes in Nunavut.

This project will use data from the new NASA-ISRO NISAR satellite mission, combined with field-based snow measurements and collaboration with Kwanlin Dün First Nation, to improve estimates of snow water storage in Yukon’s mountainous regions.

This project will investigate how rising Arctic temperatures affect heat stress in thick-billed murres on Coats Island, Nunavut, by measuring the temperatures birds experience at nesting sites, monitoring their behaviour and body temperatures, and assessing the impacts of mosquito feeding.

This project will expand a community-led polar bear research network in Nunavut’s Foxe Basin region by training local teams to use non-invasive monitoring methods, such as hair snares and camera traps, that align with Inuit values and support community ownership of research. By combining Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit with scientific analyses of genetics, diet, body condition, and contaminant exposure, the project will improve understanding of polar bear populations and environmental change across Arctic regions.

This project will investigate how climate-driven landscape changes in the Western Canadian Arctic, including permafrost thaw, vegetation shifts, and increased tundra fire, are affecting habitat for beavers, birds, and moose that are important to northern communities.

This project will investigate the environmental and human health impacts of contaminants released from open-air waste burning in Inuit communities across Nunavik, Nunavut, and Greenland.