A cross-sectional study exploring community perspectives on the impacts of COVID-19 in Nunavut and recommendations for a Holistic Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit approach to emergency resp... by Zoha Rana, Meagan Leach, Gwen K. Healey Akearok, Jaylene Ukpatiku, Nmesoma Umenwofor-Nweze

“…Data collection for this study included narrative, in-person interviews in Iqaluit, Rankin Inlet, Baker Lake, and Cambridge Bay between September 2022 and January 2023. …”
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Qanuqtuurniq—finding the balance: an IPY television series using community engagement by Catherine L. Carry, Kath Clarida, Denise Rideout, Dianne Kinnon, Rhonda M. Johnson

“…It was aired live in the Inuit language (with English captions/sub-titles) from Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, in May 2009 and simultaneously webcast. …”
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Ni animal de compagnie, ni animal de travail : proximité et mise à l’écart du qimmiq (chien) dans les familles inuites de l’Arctique central canadien avant la sédentarisation... by Francis Lévesque

“…Methodology : The paper leans on fifteen years of research about Inuit dogs in primary and secondary sources, on dozens of Inuit testimonies published in various books and on three periods of fieldwork in Iqaluit, Nunavut in 2004, 2016, and 2017. Results : It proposes a description of the traditional Inuit family as well as a description of how Inuit and their qimmiit interacted before the creation of settlements (economic importance, place in society, how they were treated, etc.). …”
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An assessment of microplastics in fecal samples from polar bears (<i>Ursus maritimus</i>) in Canada’s North by P.U. Iyare, H.L. Vanderlip, M. Dias, Jennifer F. Provencher, Shan Zou, S.C. Lougheed, P.V.C. de Groot, Graham Whitelaw, Marsha Branigan, Markus Dyck, Diane Michelle Orihel

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“Moving from understanding to action on food security in Inuit Nunangat”: by Angus Naylor, Tiff-Annie Kenny, Chris Furgal, Dorothy Beale, Duncan Warltier, Marie-Hélène Carignan, Lynn Blackwood, Brian Wade, Gabriela Goodman, Jordyn Stafford, Matthew Little

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Use of tusks by narwhals, Monodon monoceros, in foraging, exploratory, and play behavior by Greg O’Corry-Crowe, Maha Ghazal, Mark Gillespie, Paul Galvin, Jason Harasimo, Luke Storrie, Luke Storrie, Cortney A. Watt, Cortney A. Watt

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Cultural competence and safety in Circumpolar countries: an analysis of discourses in healthcare by Josée G. Lavoie, Jon Petter Stoor, Elizabeth Rink, Katie Cueva, Elena Gladun, Christina Viskum Lytken Larsen, Gwen Healey Akearok, Nicole Kanayurak

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Evaluation of Arctic Water Vapor Profile Observations from a Differential Absorption Lidar by Zen Mariani, Shannon Hicks-Jalali, Kevin Strawbridge, Jack Gwozdecky, Robert W. Crawford, Barbara Casati, François Lemay, Raisa Lehtinen, Pekko Tuominen

“…Since September 2018, a new pre-production version of the Vaisala DIAL system has operated at the Iqaluit supersite (63.74°N, 68.51°W), commissioned by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) as part of the Canadian Arctic Weather Science project. …”
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Systematic review and meta-analysis of the diagnostic value of four biomarkers in detecting neonatal sepsis in low- and middle-income countries by Chris A Rees, Jamie Lim, Michelle Niescierenko, Julia Rubin-Smith, Alexis Schmid, Adrianna L Westbrook, Rachelle El Helou, Kyra Shreeve, Chloe Rotman, Sindu Govindapillai, Kate Dorney

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The Power of Community Knowledge Exchange for Research: Community Knowledge Exchanges Lead to Innovation and Action in the Arctic by Shari Fox, Henry P. Huntington, Florian Stammler, Bruce C. Forbes, Lene Kielsen Holm, Vladimir Alexeev, Ekaterina Alexeeva, Charlene Apok, Vasily Balanov, Robert Comeau, Bibi Frederiksen, Aytalina Ivanova, Jacob Jaypoody, Angunnguaq Josefsen, Eema Kautuk, Robert Kautuk, Erik Kielsen, Igor Kolesov, Timo Kumpula, Elna Magga, Juha Magga, Nuccio Mazzullo, Vittus Nielsen, George Noongwook, Toku Oshima, Pitseolak Pfiefer, Nikolay Rufov, Taanja Sanila, Nestor Sleptsov, Mirva Tapaninen, Tatiana Tikhonova, Karl Tobiassen

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Nunami iliharniq (Learning from the land): Reflecting on relational accountability in land-based learning and cross-cultural research in Uqšuqtuuq (Gjoa Haven, Nunavut) by Gita J. Ljubicic, Rebecca Mearns, Simon Okpakok, Sean Robertson

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Fuzzy cognitive mapping as a tool to assess the relative cumulative effects of environmental stressors on an Arctic seabird population to identify conservation action and research... by Rebecca C. Rooney, Jody Daniel, Mark Mallory, April Hedd, Jess Ives, Grant Gilchrist, Carina Gjerdrum, Greg Robertson, Rob Ronconi, Kirsten Wilcox, Sarah Wong, Jennifer Provencher

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Validation of the Aeolus Level-2B wind product over Northern Canada and the Arctic by C.-C. Chou, P. J. Kushner, S. Laroche, Z. Mariani, P. Rodriguez, S. Melo, C. G. Fletcher

“…In particular, Aeolus data are compared to a limited sample of coincident ground-based Ka-band radar measurements at Iqaluit, Nunavut, to a larger set of coincident radiosonde measurements over the Canadian North, to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)'s short-range forecast, and to the reanalysis product, ERA5, from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). …”
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(Re)birthing systems in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut: a place-based inquiry into Inuit birthing, systems of care, and maternal health research by Laura Jane Brubacher

“…This research characterised Inuit women’s birthing experiences and perspectives on enriching the medical obstetric system through the lens of place, culture, and health, and explored how maternal health research methodologies might be increasingly place-based and locally-driven.Methods: Informed by a community-based approach, a team of Inuit and non-Inuit researchers conducted a case study with Inuit women in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. A systematic critical review was completed to examine prior maternal health research methodology in Nunavut and underscored opportunities for maternal health research to be increasingly Inuit-led through all research stages. …”
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Determinants of tuberculosis trends in six Indigenous populations of the USA, Canada, and Greenland from 1960 to 2014: a population-based study by Kianoush Dehghani, MD, Zhiyi Lan, MSc, Peizhi Li, MSc, Sascha Wilk Michelsen, PhD, Sean Waites, BA, Andrea Benedetti, PhD, Pierre Lejeune, BPs, Jill Torrie, MA, Elizabeth Robinson, MD, Berenica Vejvoda, MISt, Muhammad Mullah, PhD, Diana Redwood, PhD, Michael Cooper, MD, Anne Fanning, FRCPC, Wadieh Yacoub, MD, Gonzalo G Alvarez, MD, Bolette Søborg, PhD, Richard Long, MD, Dick Menzies, MD

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Enhanced automated meteorological observations at the Canadian Arctic Weather Science (CAWS) supersites by Z. Mariani, L. Huang, R. Crawford, J.-P. Blanchet, S. Hicks-Jalali, E. Mekis, L. Pelletier, P. Rodriguez, K. Strawbridge

“…To address this need, Environment and Climate Change Canada commissioned two supersites, one in Iqaluit (63.74<span class="inline-formula">^∘</span> N, 68.51<span class="inline-formula">^∘</span> W) in September 2015 and the other in Whitehorse (60.71<span class="inline-formula">^∘</span> N, 135.07<span class="inline-formula">^∘</span> W) in November 2017 as part of the Canadian Arctic Weather Science (CAWS) project. …”
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Special Observing Period (SOP) data for the Year of Polar Prediction site Model Intercomparison Project (YOPPsiteMIP) by Z. Mariani, S. M. Morris, S. M. Morris, T. Uttal, E. Akish, E. Akish, R. Crawford, L. Huang, J. Day, J. Tjernström, Ø. Godøy, L. Ferrighi, L. M. Hartten, L. M. Hartten, J. Holt, C. J. Cox, E. O'Connor, R. Pirazzini, M. Maturilli, G. Prakash, J. Mather, K. Strong, P. Fogal, V. Kustov, V. Kustov, G. Svensson, M. Gallagher, M. Gallagher, B. Vasel

“…All YOPPsiteMIP MODFs are publicly accessible via the YOPP Data Portal (Whitehorse: <a href="https://doi.org/10.21343/a33e-j150">https://doi.org/10.21343/a33e-j150</a>, Huang et al., 2023a; Iqaluit: <a href="https://doi.org/10.21343/yrnf-ck57">https://doi.org/10.21343/yrnf-ck57</a>, Huang et al., 2023b; Sodankylä: <a href="https://doi.org/10.21343/m16p-pq17">https://doi.org/10.21343/m16p-pq17</a>, O'Connor, 2023; Utqiaġvik: <a href="https://doi.org/10.21343/a2dx-nq55">https://doi.org/10.21343/a2dx-nq55</a>, Akish and Morris, 2023c; Tiksi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.21343/5bwn-w881">https://doi.org/10.21343/5bwn-w881</a>, Akish and Morris, 2023b; Ny-Ålesund: <a href="https://doi.org/10.21343/y89m-6393">https://doi.org/10.21343/y89m-6393</a>, Holt, 2023; and Eureka: <a href="https://doi.org/10.21343/r85j-tc61">https://doi.org/10.21343/r85j-tc61</a>, Akish and Morris, 2023a), which is hosted by MET Norway, with corresponding output from NWP models.…”
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Avian influenza viruses in wild birds in Canada following incursions of highly pathogenic H5N1 virus from Eurasia in 2021–2022 by Jolene A. Giacinti, Anthony V. Signore, Megan E. B. Jones, Laura Bourque, Stéphane Lair, Claire Jardine, Brian Stevens, Trent Bollinger, Dayna Goldsmith, Margo Pybus, Iga Stasiak, Richard Davis, Neil Pople, Larissa Nituch, Rodney W. Brook, Davor Ojkic, Ariane Massé, Gabrielle Dimitri-Masson, Glen J. Parsons, Meghan Baker, Carmencita Yason, Jane Harms, Naima Jutha, Jon Neely, Yohannes Berhane, Oliver Lung, Shannon K. French, Lawrna Myers, Jennifer F. Provencher, Stephanie Avery-Gomm, Gregory J. Robertson, Tatsiana Barychka, Kirsty E. B. Gurney, Jordan Wight, Ishraq Rahman, Kathryn Hargan, Andrew S. Lang, William A. Montevecchi, Tori V. Burt, Michael G. C. Brown, Cynthia Pekarik, Trevor Thompson, Angela McLaughlin, Megan Willie, Laurie Wilson, Scott A. Flemming, Megan V. Ross, Jim Leafloor, Frank Baldwin, Chris Sharp, Hannah Lewis, Matthieu Beaumont, Al Hanson, Robert A. Ronconi, Eric Reed, Margaret Campbell, Michelle Saunders, Catherine Soos

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