Research projects

Network Research Projects

• Bringing research home: Reclaiming research to tell the story of climate change in the Kluane First Nation Traditional Territory
  • Principal Investigator: Rachael Thom (Natural Resources Manager/Acting, 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

• 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