Grants and Contributions

This project will teach youth (16-30) who live in a selected Arctic community what podcasting is about, how to create podcasts on location, build and supply content that will be edited for inclusion into three Can Geo EXPLORE podcast series, to be launched on the Can Geo podcast distribution network in February 2024. By sharing stories from the north from a northern perspective, greater awareness and knowledge is built and distributed through the expansive Canadian Geographic digital platform.

This project will work across a range of disciplines and knowledge systems including Inuit knowledge, community wellness, population health, environmental health and epidemiology, veterinary medicine and animal health, social science and anthropology to answer questions critical to supporting community wellbeing in Nunavut, including: How can Inuit country food knowledge be shared to support country food preparation,
preservation, food safety, and good health? What are community research priorities related to environmental health and One Health? How can research methods and research knowledge be shared within Nunavut to strengthen research capacity across disciplines, and ultimately harness research as a tool to support community priorities and community wellbeing?

This project proposes to study how the combined effects of warming temperatures and permafrost thaw affect the growth of dominant boreal trees in northern Canada. Trees capture a record of their environmental conditions and growth responses in their annual rings. By measuring tree-rings, we can infer mechanisms driving growth changes. The project will combine coupled time series of climate, tree-ring growth, and permafrost thaw from a unique set of permafrost monitoring sites across a latitudinal gradient in the Mackenzie Valley River, Canada.

The grant supports 3 participants and 1 instructor from for Canadian Institutions to attend the Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) training school at Lantmäteriet in Gävle, Sweden from July 3-7, 2023. The training school is targeted at Early Career Researchers (e.g., graduate students and postdocs) with goals of knowledge transfer and to foster networking amongst their peers and with international experts in GIA and related field

The project will fund a gathering to support an Inuit-led Peer Review of data collected by Nunavummiut harvesters participating in the NWMB Community-Based Monitoring Network (CBMN).

Monitor river geochemical parameters, similar to those collected in previous studies, and begin to collect water quality monitoring observations to investigate questions raised by HTO board members about river health and drinking water quality. The proposed work plan involves conducting community meetings to develop the sampling plan and parameters of interest, followed by training members of the Kugluktuk HTO to collect water samples.

RNUK’s mandate is to protect the harvesting rights of Nunavik Inuit sustainably, supervising all activities related to wildlife in Nunavik, including management, research, and use (e.g., harvest). The project is an intergenerational knowledge-sharing opportunity and will include a youth camp. Hunters and elders will share their knowledge of the Marralik-Ungunniavik area, harvest, and engage in safe food preparation with youth.

Shad will run two workshops in Cambridge Bay that will allow Kitikmeot students to explore STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) fields in small groups using hands-on and experiential learning.

The 'Think About The Arctic' album and teachers’ kit will support Canadian children to learn about Arctic and Northern Canada, and polar science and technology while having a fun musical experience. The album and learning kit will synthesize information to advance knowledge of Arctic and Northern Canada, inspire and develop the next generation of Canadian polar researchers, and foster Canadian and international knowledge exchange and partnerships in polar science.

This project encourages Canadian universities and colleges to facilitate and advocate for additional resources to support best practices in northern research, specifically ensuring that northern researchers have the time and ability to travel to, and build relationships with, northern Indigenous communities in order to co-develop research projects that will benefit those communities.