NUNAVUT RESEARCH INSTITUTE 2012 COMPENDIUM OF RESEARCH Nunavut Research Institute 2012 Compendium of Research Table of Contents Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................................. 1 A Message from the Senior Science Officer ...................................................................................................... 7 Welcome to the Nunavut Research Institute .................................................................................................... 8 2012 Research Projects in Nunavut ...................................................................................................................... 8 Mandate and Objectives ....................................................................................................................................... 9 Services and Support for Licensed Scientific Research ......................................................................................... 9 NUNAVUT RESEARCH INSTITUTE FACILITIES ....................................................................................................... 10 Nunavut Research Institute and Iqaluit Science Campus ................................................................................... 10 Rankin Inlet Research Laboratory ....................................................................................................................... 10 Cambridge Bay Research Laboratory .................................................................................................................. 10 Arviat Traditional Knowledge Research Centre .................................................................................................. 10 Igloolik Research Residence ................................................................................................................................ 10 Nunavut Arctic College Community Learning Centres ........................................................................................ 10 2012 NUNAVUT RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS ......................................................................................................... 11 2012 HEALTH RESEARCH IN NUNAVUT ........................................................................................................... 15 A Review of Nunavut Oncology Patients Treated at the OttawaHospital Cancer Centre .............................. 16 An evaluation of the potential effectiveness of tobacco-related health messages among Inuit in Nunavut, Canada ............................................................................................................................................................ 16 Arviat Healthy Homes and Public Health Youth and Elders Community Survey ............................................ 17 Atii! Let's Do it! A comprehensive Healthy Living intervention for children, youth and families in Nunavut.17 Burden of Self-reported Acute Gastrointestinal Illness in Iqaluit ................................................................... 18 CanMEDS Portfolio Project ............................................................................................................................. 18 Climate change, key traditional food species and community health in Nunavut ......................................... 18 Follow-up of Universal Vaccination Against Hepatitis B Virus in the Canadian North ................................... 19 Gathering Community Perspectives on Infant Sleeping Practices in Nunavut ............................................... 19 Healing the social body: A community-based approach to mental health policy. ........................................ 20 Improving tuberculosis diagnosis in vulnerable populations:impact and cost-effectiveness of a novel, rapid molecular assay .............................................................................................................................................. 20 Improving tuberculosis diagnosis in vulnerable populations:impact and cost-effectiveness of a novel, rapid molecular assay .............................................................................................................................................. 21 Negotiating Pathways to Adulthood: Social Change and Indigenous Culture in Four Circumpolar Communities ................................................................................................................................................... 21 Palliative Care and the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut: Determinants of Programme Development and Implementation .............................................................................................................................................. 22 Should Newborn Screening Be Initiated in Nunavut for Mild CPT1 (Carnitine Palmitoyl Transferase -1) Deficiancy? ...................................................................................................................................................... 22 Taima TB ......................................................................................................................................................... 23 The Viral Hepatitis Northern Network: A Platform for Adressing Viral Hepatitis in the Canadian North ...... 23 Utilization of Prenatal Genetic Screening, Ultrasound and Diagnostic Testing in Nunavut, Canada ............. 24 Youth Driven Development in Aboriginal Communities – Impact Evaluation of the Active Circle Initiative. 24 - 1 - Nunavut Research Institute 2012 Compendium of Research 2012 PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH IN NUNAVUT ......................................................................................... 25 2012 Back River Baseline Program ................................................................................................................. 26 2012 Hope Bay Belt Environmental Baseline Program ................................................................................... 26 Acoustic study of marine mammals and ambient noise in Barrow Strait ...................................................... 27 An Analogue Mission to Discover the Genesis of Methane on Mars ............................................................. 27 An Integrated Assessment of Contamination and Biological Response in Airport Creek, Iqaluit Nunavut ... 27 An investigation of the sensitivity of high Arctic permafrost to climate change ........................................... 28 Angilak Project 2012 Environmental Monitoring Program ............................................................................ 28 Anik Nickel-Copper Project ............................................................................................................................. 28 Arctic marine Ice-associated ecosystem in a Changing Environment (Arctic-ICE) ......................................... 29 Astronomical Site Testing on Ellesemere Island ............................................................................................. 29 Baffin Island Weather Monitoring Project ...................................................................................................... 30 Barrow Strait Real Time Oceanographic Observatory .................................................................................... 30 Cambridge Bay Undersea Observatory. .......................................................................................................... 31 Canadian Arctic Buoy Program ....................................................................................................................... 31 CANDAC – Canadian Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Change ..................................................... 32 Chert Sourcing and Palaeo-Eskimo Stone Tool Technology ........................................................................... 32 Climate change effects of a changing cryoshpere on Northern lakes ............................................................ 33 Community based seawater monitoring for legacy and current use organic contaminants in the Canadian, high Arctic Archipelago ................................................................................................................................... 33 Determining rate constants for reduction and oxidation of mercury species in Arctic ocean water, snow and snowmelt: understanding variability under different chemical regimes, and use in Arctic multimedia mercury modeling. .......................................................................................................................................... 34 Disappearing Ice Caps ..................................................................................................................................... 34 Dr. Neil Trivett Global Atmosphere Watch laboratory at Alert, Nunavut ...................................................... 34 DRDC Northern Watch Technology Demonstration Project .......................................................................... 35 Dynamics and Change of the Devon Ice Cap .................................................................................................. 35 Ellesmere Island Teleseismic Experiment ....................................................................................................... 36 Environment Canada Arctic Municipal Wastewater Research ....................................................................... 36 Environmental Baseline Data Collection, Meliadine Gold Project,