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NWT Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program (NWT CIMP)

Project Results Videos

NWT CIMP Overview

2025 to 2026 Project Results

  1. CIMP227  - Recovery of the Mining Impacted Landscape in the Yellowknife Region (Queen’s University)
  2. CIMP240-BG - Contaminants and Caribou Epigenetics and Genomic Health (McGill University)
  3. CIMP243-BG - North Slave Métis Alliance Winter Road Monitoring Program (NSMA)

2024 to 2025 Project Results

  1. CIMP226 - NWT Streams and Rivers of the Future: How permafrost thaw and groundwater activities are changing water resources (Queen’s University and Wilfrid Laurier University)
  2. CIMP229 - Social-ecological change in the Sahtú (Great Bear Lake) watershed: Cumulative impacts on Dene ts' ı̨lı̨ (knowledge and cultural identity) and relationships to fish (Délı̨nę Renewable Resources Council)
  3. CIMP231 - Understanding the cumulative impacts of beaver activity on stream health in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
  4. CIMP234 - Boreal Caribou Habitat Enhancement: lichen habitat restoration on disturbed sites (LGL Limited and Deninu Kų́ę́ First Nation)
  5. CIMP238 - Guardians of Great Slave Lake: Laurier ice safety research (Wilfrid Laurier University)
  6. CIMP243-BG – North Slave Métis Alliance Winter Road Monitoring Program, North Slave Métis Alliance
  7. BONUS Video! Scotty Creek Research Community: The Spirit of Collaboration, Łı́ı́dlı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́ First Nation and Wilfrid Laurier University

2023 to 2024 Project Results

  1. CIMP187 – Vegetation Change on the Range of the Bathurst Caribou Herd (Queen’s University)
  2. CIMP191 – Kátł’odeeche First Nation Traditional Harvest Monitoring Project (Kátł’odeeche First Nation)
  3. CIMP205 – Ecological influences on nutrition and body fat condition of boreal caribou (GNWT – Environment and Climate Change)
  4. CIMP223 – Murky Waters: Impacts of disturbances on the mobilization and downstream delivery of Mercury and Methylmercury (University of Alberta)
  5. CIMP224 – A Century of Petroleum Extraction at Norman Wells (Sahtu Renewable Resources Board)

2022 to 2023 Project Results

  1. CIMP210 – Assessing Stream Health Along the Dempster-Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Corridor Using Biomonitoring Program (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
  2. CIMP211 – The Impacts of Permafrost Thaw Slumps on Arctic Stream Ecology (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
  3. CIMP212 – Studying northern lakes in a changing climate (Wilfrid Laurier University)
  4. CIMP216 – K’ahsho Got’ine Foundation Guardians – Water Monitoring (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
  5. CIMP217 – Permafrost loss and impacts to łuk dagaii (broad whitefish) habitat in the Peel River Watershed (University of Victoria)

2021 to 2022: Dehcho Region Project Results

  1. CIMP203 – Fish in the Liard River Watershed: Observations from Community Harvesters – (Acho Dene First Nation)
  2. CIMP199 – Water in a Changing Climate – (University of Montreal)
  3. CIMP132 – Great Slave Lake Food-web Dynamics Study – (Department of Fisheries and Oceans)
  4. CIMP219 – Cumulative effects of fire, permafrost, and human development on caribou habitat and recovery – (Wilfrid Laurier University)
  5. CIMP154 – Understanding Fish Mercury Concentrations in Dehcho Lakes – (University of Waterloo and Dehcho First Nations)
  6. CIMP205 – What does it take to make a female caribou fat? – (GNWT – ECC)
  7. Bonus video! – The Dehcho Collaborative on Permafrost – (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Earlier Videos

  1. CIMP94-BG Ekwǫ̀ Nàxoèhdee K’è: Boots on the Ground (Tłı̨chǫ Government)
  2. CIMP174 - Wildfire Impacts on the North Slave Region Ecosystem (Brock University)
  3. CIMP152 - Disturbance impacts on streams within the Sahtu (GNWT and Sahtu Renewable Resources Board)