Grants and Contributions

Diminishing sea ice due to climate change is making the Arctic Ocean more accessible. While the shipping industry plays a pivotal role in supporting the economy of Inuit Nunangat, increased Arctic shipping brings various threats to natural and cultural heritage in the region.The vision of the proposed project is to co-generate knowledge about risks associated with climate change-induced growth in Arctic marine shipping across Inuit Nunangat and to identify and evaluate potential management strategies that support Inuit self-determined shipping and oceans governance.

Our project investigates the drivers and dynamics of regime shifts in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region through examining interlinkages between beaver population change, changes in lakes and streams and fish population and the outcomes for Inuvialuit communities and their wellbeing. We will bring together a diverse multidisciplinary team of experts to coproduce field, remote sensing and interview research that both addresses fundamental questions and provides important information to support decision-making and stewardship in Inuit Nunangat in the face of environmental and social change.

Environmental change across Inuit Nunangat is threatening wildlife with potential impacts on food safety and security, as well as Inuit health and well-being, by promoting the spread of infectious diseases like Lyme disease and West Nile virus.The goal of this project is to equip communities to learn about climate-driven changes in wildlife disease, react rapidly to these changes, and find solutions to protect themselves against emerging risks. The outcomes of this project will allow Inuit communities to protect their health from animal transmitted disease and preserve their consumption of culturally and nutritionally important traditional foods under a changing climate.

Our project explores how changes to terrestrial, freshwater and coastal ecosystems (sea-ice and coastal processes, freshwater, snow, permafrost thaw, and changing marine ecosystems) impact Inuit youth's mental health and well-being. Our interdisciplinary team, with expertise across the physical and social sciences, takes a community-engaged approach to this research, and provides an Inuit-led structure and methodological pathway for community members to themselves determine how these systems are experienced. Our project is critical given that Inuit youth remain chronically underrepresented in shaping climate policy.

Water quality responses to climate change will be assessed to aid the City of Iqaluit in resource management and future urban planning.

The project explores how changes to terrestrial, freshwater and coastal ecosystems (sea-ice and coastal processes, freshwater, snow, permafrost thaw, and changing marine ecosystems) impact Inuit youth's mental health and well-being. The interdisciplinary team, with expertise across the physical and social sciences, takes a community-engaged approach to this research, and provides an Inuit-led structure and methodological pathway for community members to themselves determine how these systems are experienced. The project is critical given that Inuit youth remain chronically underrepresented in shaping climate policy.

The National Inuit Data Management Committee (NIDMC) brings together Inuit regional and organizational representatives to provide advice, recommendations, and regional perspectives regarding information and data management. The NIDMC will lead the implementation of the National Inuit Stratgy on Research (NISR) Priority Area 4 – Ensure Inuit access, ownership, and control over data and information. Each Inuit region will conduct data scans to ascertain the amount and type of data held, create a database architecture to compile data securely, and conduct an information technology security assessment.

Virtual reality equipment to support courses in the Environmental technology program, where it will be used for laboratory skills, safety, and maintenance training. The program will be developed through the summer months, with availability/delivery to classrooms beginning in the Fall 2022 semester.

Building capacity in forest monitoring and fire ecology in the Northwest Territories; The incorporation of GNWT Fire and Forest Management Division employees into field research teams where new plots will be established in holdover or “zombie” fires. In Alaska and the NWT, holdover fires comprise 0.8% of area burned on average but during extreme years may contribute as much as 40%.

The Nunavik Hunting, Fishing, and Trapping Association (Regional Nunavimmi Uumajulirijiit Katujiqatigiinninga) is running an intergenerational knowledge-sharing youth camp and beluga research project. Hunters and elders will share their knowledge of the Marralik-Ungunniavik area, harvesting, and safe food preparation with youth. Beluga will be observed and sampled using non-lethal methods for genetic analysis and stock assessment.