CANADA : Aklavik, northwest territories, district of Mackenzie / by Surveys and Mapping Branch. Department of Mines and Technical Surveys

Determining Freshwater Lake Communities’ Vulnerability to Snowstorms in the Northwest Territories by Janine A. Baijnath-Rodino, Amaia Albizua, Laxmi Sushama, Elena Bennett, Brian E. Robinson

“…This study applies a framework to quantitatively determine the multiple impacts of snowstorms by calculating the livelihood vulnerability index (LVI) for four exposed freshwater lake communities in Canada’s Northwest Territories using three contributing factors (exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity). …”
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Prioritising indigenous representations of geopower: the case of Tulita, Northwest Territories, Canada by Perombelon, B

“…Through empirical data collected during a period of five months of fieldwork undertaken between October 2014 and March 2015, it investigates the ways through which an Indigenous community of the Canadian Arctic, Tulita (located in the Northwest Territories’ Sahtu region) represents geopower. …”

Envisioning Indigenous and biomedical healthcare collaboration at Stanton Territorial Hospital, Northwest Territories by Sophie Isabelle Grace Roher, Paul Andrew, Susan Chatwood, Kimberly Fairman, Tracey Galloway, Angela Mashford-Pringle, Jennifer L. Gibson

“…ABSTRACTBackground: To improve the quality of care for Indigenous patients, local Indigenous leaders in the Northwest Territories, Canada have called for more culturally responsive models for Indigenous and biomedical healthcare collaboration at Stanton Territorial Hospital.Objective: This study examined how Indigenous patients and biomedical healthcare providers envision Indigenous healing practices working successfully with biomedical hospital care at Stanton Territorial Hospital.Methods: We carried out a qualitative study from May 2018 – June 2022. …”
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Drivers of tall shrub proliferation adjacent to the Dempster Highway, Northwest Territories, Canada by Emily A Cameron, Trevor C Lantz

“…In this study we investigated the impact of road construction and maintenance on vegetation structure and biomass along the Dempster Highway where it crosses the Peel Plateau in the Northwest Territories. To explore drivers of tall shrub proliferation and to quantify shrub proliferation in this region of continuous permafrost, greyscale air photos (1975) and Quickbird satellite imagery (2008) were used to map landcover change within two 0.6 km ^2 belts next to the road and two 0.6 km ^2 belts 500 m away from the road. …”
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Patient healthcare experiences in the Northwest Territories, Canada: an analysis of news media articles by Rhiannon Cooper, Nathaniel J. Pollock, Zander Affleck, Laura Bain, Nanna Lund Hansen, Kelsey Robertson, Susan Chatwood

“…The objective of this study was to examine the characteristics of patient healthcare experiences as reported through news media in the Northwest Territories. We used a case series design to examine patient healthcare experiences reported in news media articles. …”
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Retrospective Comparison of the Occurrence and Abundance of Rusty Blackbird in the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories by Craig S. Machtans, Steven L. Van Wilgenburg, Lindsay A. Armer, Keith A. Hobson

“…Forty-five locations with historical survey data from the 1970s in the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada were revisited in 2006 to check for changes in the occurrence or abundance of Rusty Blackbird. …”
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Dietary Intakes of Traditional Foods for Dene/Métis in the Dehcho and Sahtú Regions of the Northwest Territories by Maria Ramirez Prieto, Mylène Ratelle, Brian Douglas Laird, Kelly Skinner

“…A dietary transition away from traditional foods and toward a diet of the predominantly unhealthy market is a public health and sociocultural concern throughout Indigenous communities in Canada, including those in the sub-Arctic and remote regions of Dehcho and Sahtú of the Northwest Territories, Canada. The main aim of the present study is to describe dietary intakes for macronutrients and micronutrients in traditional and market food from the Mackenzie Valley study. …”
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Just transition in the northwest territories: Insights and values from indigenous and non-indigenous northerners by Candice Amber, Sandeep Agrawal, Celine Zoe

“…Results identify three themes, which are Indigenous land ethos (Mother Earth relationality), community energy autonomy (informed leadership), and capacity training (humanizing outreach) as key drivers to future just transition in the Northwest Territories.…”
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A drift isopach model for the southwestern Great Slave Lake region, Northwest Territories, Canada by I. Rod Smith, Christine Deblonde, Grant Hagedorn, Roger C. Paulen

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Informing the Co-Development of Culture-Centered Dietary Messaging in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories by Julia Gyapay, Kanelsa Noksana, Sonja Ostertag, Sonia Wesche, Brian Douglas Laird, Kelly Skinner

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Arctic mineral futures: tracing geoscience knowledge from field to community in the Northwest Territories, Canada by Becker, M

“…<p>This thesis explores the ‘becoming’ of mineral resources in the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada, and the role that geoscience knowledge and bodily-material relations play in that process. …”

Breaking trail in the Northwest Territories: a qualitative study of Indigenous Peoples’ experiences on the pathway to becoming a physician by Thomsen DHont, Kent Stobart, Susan Chatwood

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Mapping Forest Height from TanDEM-X Interferometric Coherence Data in Northwest Territories, Canada by Hao Chen, André Beaudoin, David A. Hill, Shane R. Cloude, Rob S. Skakun, Maryse Marchand

“…In this paper, we demonstrate the feasibility of using TanDEM-X (TX) interferometric coherence data for mapping forest height with 25-m pixels across a study area near Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada. Our simplified RVOG model locally estimates forest height by combining an optimized estimation of TX interferometric coherence amplitude with the 20-m resolution Canadian Digital Elevation Model (CDEM) accounting for local slope variations. …”
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Falcon Nest Occupancy and Hatch Success Near Two Diamond Mines in the Southern Arctic, Northwest Territories by Daniel W. Coulton, John A. Virgl, Colleen English

“…We evaluated whether the presence of two diamond mines resulted in negative effects to nest use and hatch success of breeding falcons in the southern Arctic barren-grounds of the Northwest Territories. A total of 20 nest sites of Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) and Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) breeding within 26 km of the Diavik and Ekati diamond mines were monitored annually during 1998 to 2010. …”
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The Multisource Vegetation Inventory (MVI): A Satellite-Based Forest Inventory for the Northwest Territories Taiga Plains by Guillermo Castilla, Ronald J. Hall, Rob Skakun, Michelle Filiatrault, André Beaudoin, Michael Gartrell, Lisa Smith, Kathleen Groenewegen, Chris Hopkinson, Jurjen van der Sluijs

“…However, jurisdictions with large tracts of noncommercial forest, such as the Northwest Territories (NWT) of Canada, often lack detailed forest information across their land base. …”
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Prevalence, correlates and trends of intimate partner violence among Indigenous and northern youths in the Northwest Territories, Canada by Kalonde Malama, Zerihun Admassu, Carmen H. Logie, Candice L. Lys, Amanda Kanbari, Shira B. Taylor, Kayley Inuksuk Mackay, Clara McNamee, Lesley Gittings

“…# Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) is rising in Canada and disproportionately affects Indigenous communities in the Northwest Territories largely due to the harmful, ongoing effects of settler colonialisation. …”
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New information on two Late Cretaceous (Turonian) fishes from Lac des Bois, Northwest Territories, Canada by Alison M Murray, Stephen L Cumbaa

“…Fishes from Turonian deposits at Lac des Bois, Northwest Territories, Canada, have previously been described based on material from calcareous mudstone concretions collected in 1969. …”
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Peer and land-based approaches for fostering empowering and healthy relationships with Indigenous and northern young people in the Northwest Territories. by Lesley Gittings, Kalonde Malama, Carmen Logie, Candice Lys, Shira B Taylor, Clara McNamee, Kayley Inuksuk Mackay, Zerihun Admassu

“…Indigenous and Northern women in Canada experience high rates of intimate partner violence (IPV), and this is particularly true in the Northwest Territories (NWT). Adolescents are also at increased risk of IPV, which has far-reaching, lifelong effects. …”
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Hydrological, meteorological, and watershed controls on the water balance of thermokarst lakes between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada by E. J. Wilcox, B. B. Wolfe, P. Marsh

“…In the tundra uplands east of the Mackenzie Delta in the Northwest Territories, Canada, previous research has found that lakes responded non-uniformly to year-to-year changes in precipitation, suggesting that lake and watershed properties mediate the response of lakes to climate change. …”
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