NWT CIMP highly recommends following protocols and guidance while working on science projects with the GNWT. The following links provide guidance by subject matter.

(Note that we add additional recommended protocols and standards to this list as they are adopted.)

Caribou

Caribou behaviour:

• Caribou Behavioural Monitoring Field Protocol developed by GNWT-ECC

Boreal Caribou:

• The National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium offers monitoring methods including:
  • Local and harvester observations in Canada
  • Aeriel surveys in Canada
  • Telemetry in Canada

Water Quality and Aquatic Health

Community-based monitoring:

• Community-Based Water Monitoring Protocol developed by GNWT-ECC
• NWT CIMP Community-Based Water Monitoring Guidance developed by GNWT-ECC
• Standardized Water Sampling Instructions developed by the GNWT’s Taiga Environmental Laboratory
• Mackenzie DataStream has several data guidance including:
  • Continuous time-series
  • Isotope
  • Metal-series
  • Nutrients
  • Reporting analytical methods

Water quality monitoring:

• Northern waters: a guide to designing and conducting water quality monitoring in northern Canada developed by Northern Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
• Protocols Manual for Water Quality Sampling in Canada developed by the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME)

Benthic invertebrates:

• Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) Field Manual for Wadeable Streams developed by Environment and Climate Change Canada
• Joint Handbook of Methods for Sampling Lakes and Rivers developed by ARCTIC-BIODIVER Project Team

Fish

Occupancy modelling:

• Native Stream Occupancy Monitoring Protocol developed by Parks Canada

Fish community monitoring:

• Broad Scale Fish Community Monitoring Protocol developed by the Government of Ontario

Broad whitefish community-based monitoring:

• Broad Whitefish Sampling Protocol and Sampling Data Sheet developed by University of Maine (CIMP195)

Mercury surveillance monitoring:

• Protocol and Sampling Form endorsed by NWT CIMP

Snow

Snow survey

• NWT Snow Survey Data and Methodology developed by GNWT-ECC

Vegetation

Variability in the vegetation:

• Monitoring Vegetation in the Northwest Territories developed by the University of Victoria, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada and the University of British Columbia
• Template data sheets:
  • Active Layer Data Sheet
  • Berry Plots Data Sheet
  • Community Composition Data Sheet
  • Functional Groups Data Sheet
  • Sample Collection Chits
  • Site Description Data Sheet
  • Trees Data Sheet

Berry productivity:

• Berry Monitoring Protocol developed by the Universities of Quebec, Montreal and British Columbia

Seismic line recovery:

• Data Collection Manual & Methods developed by GNWT-ECC