NUNAVUT RESEARCH INSTITUTE 2010 COMPENDIUM OF RESEARCH 1 For further information contact: Mary Ellen Thomas, Senior Research Officer (867) 979.7202 or [email protected] Rick Armstrong, Manager, Scientific Support Services (867) 979.7280 or [email protected] 2 2010 COMPENDIUM OF RESEARCH IN NUNAVUT TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome to the Nunavut Research Institute 6 CANDAC 17 Mandate and Objectives 6 CATLIN ARCTIC SURVEY 2010 – Ice Base 18 A Message from the Senior Science Officer 6 CCGS Hudson 2010 Hudson Bay/Foxe Basin oceanographic fOR MORE INFORMATION 7 survey 18 NRI INTRODUCES NEW RESEARCH FACILITIES 8 Churchill Diamond Corridor Activity 19 SERVICES AND SUPPORT FOR LICENSED SCIENTIFIC Climate Change Hazard Mapping in RESEARCH 8 Nunavut Communities 19 NUNAVUT RESEARCH CENTRE AND Climate change effects on the hydro-ecology IQALUIT SCIENCE CAMPUS 9 of Northern lakes 19 CAMBRIDGE BAY Climate change impacts on river flows, sediment RESEARCH LABORATORY 9 loads, and water quality 20 RANKIN INLET DRDC Northern Watch Technology Demonstration RESEARCH LABORATORY 9 Project 20 IGLOOLIK RESEARCH RESIDENCE 9 Dynamics and Change of the Devon Ice Cap 20 ARVIAT TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE Ecology of Nunavut Aquatic Systems 21 RESEARCH SUPPORT CENTRE 9 Ellesmere Island Teleseismic Experiment 21 NUNAVUT ARCTIC COLLEGE Eastern Arctic Canadian Arctic Seismic Experiment 22 COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTRES 9 North Baffin Bay Fixed Wing Geophysical Survey 22 FOR MORE INFORMATION 9 Geochemical Ecology of Cryptoendolithic Microorganisms 22 PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH IN NUNAVUT Geology and hydrocarbon potential of 13 Ellef Ringnes Island 23 2009 Hope Bay Belt Environmental Baseline Program 13 Glacier Mass Balance and Pollution Studies in the AEI - Roche Bay Magnetite Project - Fresh Canadian high Arctic 23 Water Monitoring 13 Glacier and Climate Evolution of Baffin Island, An investigation of the sensitivity of high Arctic Arctic Canada 24 permafrost to climate change 14 Geological Study of the Queen Maud Block, Nunavut 24 Architecture, evolution and metallogeny of HAUGHTON-MARS PROJECT (HMP) 24 Mesoproterozoic sedimentary basins of the eastern HAUGHTON-MARS PROJECT: Canadian Arctic Islands 14 NORTHWEST PASSAGE DRIVE 25 Arctic Carbonates 14 Helicopter electromagnetic measurements of the ArcticNet 2009 Expedition: Integrated Regional Impact sea ice mass balance 25 Study of the Canadian High Arctic 15 High Arctic Permafrost Landscape Stability and Arctic marine Ice-associated ecosystem in a Changing Water Quality,Sabine Peninsula, Melville Island Environment (Arctic-ICE) 15 Nunavut 26 Arctic Ocean Climate Change Project 16 Hydrocarbon potential of the Hudson Bay and Foxe AREVA Kiggavik-Sissons Project Aquatic sedimentary basins 26 Baseline Program 16 Ice Island Drift Tracking 26 Assessing the use of natural and constructed Hydrological Baseline Assessment of the Kiggavik wetlands for wastewater treatment in the Kivalliq 16 Project 27 Bathurst Inlet Port and Road Project – 2010 Installation of a Wind Data Collection Tower 27 Summer Field Work 16 Jones Sound Helicopter Airborne Magnetic Survey 27 Biography of Polar Desert Soil Ecosystems 17 Landscape processes at Cape Bounty, Melville Bylot Island Sampling 17 Island and North Lake, Cornwallis Island 28 Canadian Arctic Buoy Program 17 Lupin Gold Mine Cycle 3 Environmental Effects 3 Monitoring Investigation of Cause Study 28 and Elders Community Survey 39 Mapping Mantle Diamond Potential/Churchill Assessing the Role and Outcomes of the Diamonds 28 Introduction of Chiropractic Health Care Marine Sediment Collection for Microbe Services in a Nunavut Community 40 Bioprospecting 29 Climate change, key traditional food species Meliadine West Gold Project 29 and community health in Nunavut 40 Melville Peninsula Geo-Mapping (GEM) Project 30 Competency Based Health Human Resources Microbial investigations of perennial springs, Planning for Aging Canadians 40 permafrost and ground ice in the high Arctic 30 Healing the social body: A community-based Northern Ellesmere Ice Shelves, Ecosystems approach to mental health policy. 41 and Climate Impacts 31 Palliative Care and the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut: Determinants of Programme Development Northern Ellesmere Island in the Global Environment and Implementation 41 (NEIGE) 31 Prenatal care in two Nunavut communities: O-Buoy measurements of ozone, carbon dioxide and What are the barriers, facilitators and bromine oxide with accompanying geographic and motivators to accessing care? 41 meteorological information for up to a year long periods over frozen surface of Hudson Bay Surveillance and Cost Analysis for Respiratory and Arctic Ocean 32 Syncytial Virus Hospital Admissions in Arctic Communities in Canada 42 Optimization of In Situ Bioremediation Conditions at CFS-Alert 32 Traditional Inuit Beliefs about Pregnancy and Birth 42 Paleoclimatic reconstruction of the Canadian What are the current practices, attitudes and High Arctic using bioindicators 33 support systems related to breastfeeding among mothers of infants less than two years of age living Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the in Repulse Bay? 42 Haughton impact structure and surrounding terrains over the past 39 Million years 33 Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. Chidliak Property SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH IN NUNAVUT 2010 Baseline Environmental Studies 34 45 Phase I and Preliminary Phase II Environmental Site 2010 Chidliak Traditional Land-Use Project 45 Assessment (ESA), Polar Bear Pass National 4-D Visioning for Climate Decision-Making in Wildlife Area, Nunavut 34 Clyde River, Nunavut 45 PolarDARN radar for Rankin Inlet (Kangiqsliniq) 35 Aboriginal ecotourism, environmental and economic Polar North 35 changes, livelihood and traditional knowledge; a comparative analysis between the caribou Inuit Provenance of Clastic Sediments in the of Baker Lake in Nunavut and the Sami reindeer Sverdrup Basin 35 herders of Övre Soppero in Northern Sweden 45 Production and Loss of Methylmercury, and Adaptation, Industrial Development and Arctic its Uptake in Lake Food Webs of the High Arctic 36 Communities: Experiences of environmental Quantifying Changes in Multi-year Floes Drifting and social change 46 through the Arctic 36 American and Inuit Whalers in Cumberland Reconstructing Ancient Ocean Conditions from Sound, 1850-1918 46 Rocks of the Belcher Group,Belcher Islands, Nunavut 36 Arctic Sovereignties: The View from Iqaluit 46 Structural, thermal and magmatic evolution of Arviat: an intimate re-examination of colonial Baffin Bay and Davis Strait and adjacent relations 47 continental margins 37 Changes in Inuit Opposition and Resistance to Thermal state of permafrost 37 Industrial Development on Caribou Claving Grounds Variability and Forcing of Fluxes through Near Baker Lake,Nunavut 47 Nares Strait & Jones Sound 37 Climate change and tourism change:a vulnerability and resilience assessment 47 LICENSED HEALTH RESEARCH IN NUNAVUT Climate change impacts on berry ecology in the 39 Canadian arctic tundra / CICAT 48 An Ethnographic Study to Define the “Good” Constructs and Consequences of Permanent Walls 48 Rural Death 39 Arviat Healthy Homes and Public Health Youth 4 Determinants of food insecurity among Inuit adaptation in expedition cruise tourism in Nunavut 57 women in Arviat, Nunavut: the role of climate change Subsistence, Food Security and Economy in and multiple socio-economic stresses 48 Clyde River, Nunavut 57 Ecology of killer whales in the eastern The Determinants of Food Security Among Canadian Arctic 48 Inuit Women: Understanding Pregnancy, Nutrition Exploring issues of fit surrounding the biosphere and Health in the Canadian Arctic. 58 reserve model and the Igalirtuuq conservation The Role of Institutions in Shaping Inuit initiative,Clyde River,Nunavut 49 Participation in Climate Change Policy 58 Exploring the cultural connection between walrus, Tobacco: Can We Change? 58 trichinellosis, and the Inuit People of Repulse Bay, Traditional Knowledge of Northwestern Hudson Bay Nunavut 49 Polar Bears: Distribution, Habitats, Food Coping Strategies among Iqaluit’s Vulnerable Food and Behavior 59 Population in the context of Socio-Economic Change 49 Typological aspects of Inuit Sign Language 59 Hamlet of Coral Harbour’s Duke of York Bay Urqsuk:The Changing Nature of Arctic Fats Long Term Land Use Strategy 50 and the Inuit Diet 59 Hazardous Weather in Iqaluit, Nunavut: Violence and Violence Prevention among Inuit in Perceptions, Impacts, Vulnerabilities and Adaptations 50 Nunavut (East Canadian Arctic) 60 How to be people together? People, place and Inuit governance regeneration. 51 Improving Access to University Education in the Canadian Arctic: Learning from Past Experiences and listening to the Inuit Student Experiences 51 Inuit Knowledge of Foxe Basin Polar Bear Habitat and Movements 51 Inuit leadership and Governance in Nunavut and Nunavik: Life Stories, Analytical Perspectives and Training 52 Inuit Qaujimajatunqangit on declines of Arctic terns near Rankin Inlet and Whale Cove 52 Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and the Transformation of High School Education in Nunavut 52 Inuit Qaujimajatuqanigit and Harvest Studies Supporting the Mary River Project 53 Inuit Resilience Project 53 Inuit Women and Subsistence: Social and Environmental Change 53 Language Policy Innovation in Nunavut 54 Local Discourses of Arctic Sovereignty in Iqaluit 54 Negotiating in an Inuit Environment 54 Nunavumi Nunarjuattigut Illinniarniq (Learning in Nunavut Through Our Earth) 55 Picturing Responsibility on the Thelon River, Nunavut 55 Recharting