Network Research Projects
- Bringing research home: Reclaiming research to tell the story of climate change in the Kluane First Nation Traditional Territory
- Principal Investigator: Kate Ballegooyen (Natural Resources Manager/Lands Resources and Heritage, Kluane First Nation, Burwash Landing)
- Research Location: Kluane First Nation Traditional Territory, Yukon Territory
- Co-Creation of a Governance Structure: The Case of a Recreo-Tourism Development in Mont-Orford
- Principal Investigator: Laurent Bourdeau (Professor, Department of Geography, Laval University)
- Research Location: Mont-Orford region, Québec
- Effects of climate change and human activities on mountain species and ecosystems
- Principal Investigator: Stan Boutin, Professor, University of Alberta
- Research Location: British Columbia and Yukon Territory
- Enhancing the reintroduction of Plains Bison through the inclusion of cultural monitoring and traditional knowledge in Banff National Park
- Principal Investigator: William Snow (Consultation Manager, Stoney Tribal Administration)
- Research Location: Banff National Park, Alberta
- Explore, describe and develop a methodology to best account Indigenous perspectives on the value of Land Guardianship in Mountain Regions and the contributions to the biodiversity and well-being of their Nations
- Principal Investigator: Norma Kassi, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Science, McGill University
- Research Location: Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia, Quebec, Newfoundland & Labrador
- From the Mountains to Our Tables: Freshwater Security in Three Canadian Eastern Rocky Mountain Watersheds
- Principal Investigator: Vincent St. Louis (Professor, University of Alberta)
- Research Locations: Banff National Park and Jasper National Park, Alberta
- Indigenous Land Rights in Canada and New Zealand: Sustainable Protected Areas in Rural and Mountain Environments
- Principal Investigator: Courtney Mason (Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair in Rural Livelihoods and Sustainable Communities, Thompson Rivers University)
- Research Locations: Alberta (Banff National Park, Jasper National Park, Yoho National Park); Northwest Territories (Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary); and New Zealand (Urewera National Park)
- Łingít Kusteeyí (Tlingit Way of Life): Revitalizing Tlingit Law for Land and Wildlife
- Principal Investigator: Aimee Schmidt (Executive Director, T’akhu  Tlèn Conservancy)
- Research Location: Taku River Tlingit Traditional Territory, British Columbia and Yukon Territory
- Long-term monitoring of harvested mountain ungulates to improve their conservation and sustainable use
- Principal Investigator: Marco Festa-Bianchet (Professor, Department of Biology, University of Sherbrooke)
- Research Locations: Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories, British Columbia, and Alberta
- Managing Groundwater Resources in Mountainous Areas: Planning for and Adapting to Drought Conditions
- Principal Investigator: Diana Allen (Professor, Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University)
- Research Location: Okanagan Basin, British Columbia
- Mineral Dust Dynamics and Climate Change at High Latitude Mountainous Regions
- Principal Investigator: James King (Assistant Professor in Geomorphology
Wind Erosion Lab, Department of Geography, University of Montreal) - Research Location: Łhù’ààn Mân (Kluane Lake), Yukon Territory
- Principal Investigator: James King (Assistant Professor in Geomorphology
- Mobilizing Mountain Metrics that Matter: Inuit-Led Environment and Health Monitoring in the Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve
- Principal Investigator: Inez Shiwak (Community Project Lead, Rigolet Inuit Community Government)
- Research Location: Mealy Mountains, Labrador
- Nı́o Nę P’ęnę́ – Trails of the Mountain Caribou: Renewing Indigenous Relationships in Conservation
- Principal Investigator: Leon Andrew (Shúhtagot’įnę Elder/Ancien, Tulít’a Dene Band, Sahtú Renewable Resources Board)
- Research Location: Mackenzie Mountains, Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories
- The Mountain Risk Knowledge Exchange – Building Risk Management Capacity and Resilience in Mountain Communities
- Principal Investigator: Glyn Williams-Jones (Co-Director, Centre for Natural Hazards Research / Professor, Volcanology, Simon Fraser University)
- Research Locations: Lil’wat Nation/Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia; various Nunavut communities
- The Shútagot’ıne Cultural Landscape Project
- Principal Investigator: Glen MacKay (Territorial Archaeologist, Cultural Places Program, Government of the Northwest Territories)
- Research Location: Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories
- The View from 2117: Human Actions, Consequences, and Perspectives on Mountain Regions
- Principal Investigator: Pamela Shaw (Research Director, Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region Research Institute, Vancouver Island University)
- Research Location: Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Reserve, British Columbia