scholarly journals Multidisciplinary study of Cretaceous, Neogene, and Quaternary stratigraphy, and bocannes and their associated mineralogy and hydrochemistry, Smoking Hills, Northwest Territories: GEM-2 Western Arctic Project, report of activities 2018

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
I R Smith ◽  
M Bringué ◽  
R Bryant ◽  
D J A Evans ◽  
J M Galloway ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Project Report ◽  
Multidisciplinary Study ◽  
Quaternary Stratigraphy ◽  
Western Arctic

‘Take it from the top’: northern conceptions about identity in the western Arctic and beyond

Polar Record ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
The South ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Western Arctic ◽  
Student Researchers

ABSTRACTDuring the last decades the Arctic has become more central on the world stage. However, despite increased interest how much do people really know about ‘the north’ and the ‘northern people’? The aim of this article is to chronicle a research project by students, who saw themselves as northerners, that used video to capture northerners’ definitions of the north, as well as asking the community about what they wanted newcomers and southern Canada to know about the north. The group also embarked on a new discipline of northerners studying ‘the south’. 43 students interviewed 95 people in the Beaufort Delta, Northwest Territories and 25 people in Edmonton, Alberta. The student researchers’ responses and that of their interviewees are some of the most direct messages on how northerners view their identity and that of their fellow southern Canadians. This project created a video tool to share, educate, and commence a dialogue between people about the north straight from the source.

scholarly journals Multidisciplinary study of Paleogene-Neogene strata on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut: GEM-2 Western Arctic Project, Pearya Terrane activity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J M Galloway ◽  
L Reinhardt ◽  
W von Gosen ◽  
K Piepjohn ◽  
M Dolezych ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ellesmere Island ◽  
Multidisciplinary Study ◽  
Western Arctic

scholarly journals Range Extension of Northern Form Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malma malma) to the Upper Arctic Red River Watershed, Northwest Territories, Canada

ARCTIC ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-50
Author(s):  
Kris W.C. Maier ◽  
Neil J. Mochnacz ◽  
Robert Bajno ◽  
Andrew J. Chapelsky ◽  
Peter Rodger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mitochondrial Dna ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Red River ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Ecological Value ◽  
Dolly Varden ◽  
Linear Discriminant ◽  
Arctic Grayling ◽  
Western Arctic

Northern form Dolly Varden is an anadromous char with significant ecological value found in high-gradient rivers of the Western Arctic. Because of declines in population abundance, Dolly Varden was recently designated as “Special Concern” under the federal Species at Risk Act. This species is also of great cultural and dietary significance to Indigenous Peoples of many communities in the Western Arctic; thus, expanding knowledge of the distribution, biology, and essential habitat is an important priority. We present results of a fisheries survey in the headwaters of the Arctic Red River, Northwest Territories, that focused on confirming the presence of Dolly Varden. Of 143 fish captured among 12 sampling locations, two were Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus), 33 were slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus), and 108 were char identified using qualitative and quantitative morphological features. A subsample of 44 char voucher specimens were frozen whole and later identified using a linear discriminant function (LDF) based on meristic counts and morphological measurements, and a mitochondrial DNA genetic marker. LDF scores indicated that char collected in the Arctic Red River were northern form Dolly Varden. Genetic analysis showed that all but one char possessed mitochondrial DNA sequences common in northern form Dolly Varden from Canada. Our results confirm the presence of Dolly Varden in the Arctic Red River headwaters, extending the confirmed known distribution of this taxon in the Northwest Territories approximately 450 km south and 100 km east of previously delimited areas.

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