Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Northern Science and Technology Program
EF 2023-2024
Canada
The project will provide the scientific evidence base to quantify the impacts of changes in the nature, extent, seasonality, and character of all things snow and ice and provide plans and strategies f...
Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Northern Science and Technology Program
EF 2022-2023
Canada
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 sh...
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Polar Knowledge Application Program
EF 2021-2022
Canada
This project will document caribou Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) from Elders in all Kitikmeot communities, train harvesters to record mobile-based observations on the land, develop engagement tools to...
Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Northern Science and Technology Program
EF 2020-2021
Canada
This project aims to use remote sensing and field-based observations to elucidate expected trajectories of landscape change and its impacts in order to reduce uncertainty and support forward-looking a...
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Polar Knowledge Application Program
EF 2021-2022
Canada
This study will expand on training provided by the Nunavut Community Aquatic Monitoring Program (NCAMP) to include the use of In Reach satellite devices and a specially designed "Fishery Assessment Ap...
Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Northern Science and Technology Program
EF 2022-2023
Canada
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...
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Polar Knowledge Application Program
EF 2020-2021
Canada
This community-based research project directly contributes to land claim implementation by asking how to build [the Tagish and Tlingit people of Carcross/Tagish First Nation (C/TFN)]’s capacity to bot...
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Polar Knowledge Application Program
EF 2021-2022
Canada
The Inuvialuit Place Names Project collects, verifies, and circulates a remarkable collection of archival Inuvialuit place names, drawn from research reports, audio recordings, maps, and other sources...
Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Grants and Contributions for the Advancement of Northern Science and Technology
EF 2022-2023
Canada
Water quality responses to climate change will be assessed to aid the City of Iqaluit in resource management and future urban planning.
Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Polar Knowledge Application Program
EF 2021-2022
Canada
This knowledge sharing project will take place in the communities of Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL, Inukjuak, QC, and Iqaluit, NU, and extensive use of Zoom, with the intent of reaching shared understand...
Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Northern Science and Technology Program
EF 2023-2024
Canada
This project aims to build climate change decision-making capacity within the Kluane First Nation (KFN) community with a researcher-led and community supported participatory approach. In the short ter...
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Northern Science and Technology Program
EF 2021-2022
Canada
Traditional knowledge and science will be utilized to better understand carbiou and muskox health across Nunavut. Climate change and emerging diseases are key factors of concern.
Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Northern Science and Technology Program
EF 2017-2018
Canada
Study the migratory ecology of the searun (anadromous) Arctic char of the Cambridge Bay region. The study will address key challenges in the management of and important fishery, provide information on...
Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Northern Science and Technology Program
EF 2020-2021
Canada
The funds will support the procurement of research equipment and mobile laboratories.
Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Northern Science and Technology Program
EF 2021-2022
Canada
Water quality responses to climate change will be assessed to aid the City of Iqaluit in resource management and future urban planning.
Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Northern Science and Technology Program
EF 2017-2018
Canada
Provide open access publication of the baseline data generated by the long-term ecological monitoring program of the Bylot Island field station; Evaluate how innovative technologies could enhance Arct...
Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Polar Knowledge Application Program
EF 2021-2022
Canada
Hilap Aulaaniit Qanuq Atayut (The World and its Connections) is an Inuit-driven approach to environmental knowledge production that combines the resources, expertise, and passion of four Inuinnaqtun s...
Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Grants and Contributions for the Advancement of Northern Science and Technology
EF 2021-2022
Canada
The project's goal is to strengthen capacity among Nunavummiut to participate in and lead northern research in health, wellness, climate change and the environment, social sciences, and Inuit knowledg...
Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Grants and Contributions for the Advancement of Northern Science and Technology
EF 2026-2027
Canada
The proposed project aims to strengthen community involvement and leadership in polar bear research; generate community-based findings to inform polar bear science, management, and conservation policy...
Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Grants and Contributions for the Advancement of Northern Science and Technology
EF 2024-2025
Canada
Build youth capacity and skills by developing a combined on-the-land (OTL) and Western learning model. Objectives are to: 1) enhance youths' future career opportunities; 2) deepen youth's relationship...
Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Grants and Contributions for the Advancement of Northern Science and Technology
EF 2024-2025
Canada
The proposed project builds on an existing project to support community-led polar bear research by supporting the development of a community-led polar bear research network, providing comprehensive tr...
Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Northern Science and Technology Program
EF 2021-2022
Canada
East Kitikmeot communities study country food security in a changing climate and shifting sea-ice patterns. Marine mammals and caribou are of focus as high priority food sources and culturual importan...
Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Grants and Contributions for the Advancement of Northern Science and Technology
EF 2024-2025
Canada
Build on Nunamik Takunnatut, the CINUK Arctic research funded program that developed a wildlife health monitoring system, and support communities to deploy the system through management of sampling ki...
Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Northern Science and Technology Program
EF 2017-2018
Canada
The long-term objective of CPET is to improve the understanding, parameterisation and prediction of water flow and storage processes in the thawing, peatland-dominated southern fringe of discontinuous...
Polar Knowledge Canada | Savoir polaire Canada
Polar Knowledge Application Program
EF 2021-2022
Canada
This project addresses fish health and water quality at select sites of community concern through the collection of concurrent Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) and western science descriptions of water an...