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Canadian non-profit ArcticNet announced $9.3 million in funding for 13 Indigenous and northern-led research projects across Inuit Nunangat and the North.
The funding is divided across ArcticNet’s North-by-North Program’s three streams including the Inuit Qaujisarnirmut Pilirijjutit, Northern Research Leaders Program and First Nations Research Program.
Under the Inuit Qaujisarnirmut Pilirijjutit stream, the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation received funding to set up mobile weather stations in Aklavik, Inuvik, Paulatuk, Sachs Harbour, Tuktoyaktuk and Ulukhaktok as part of their Inuvialuit Weather Station Network program.
“With the isolation and remote locations of the communities in the Arctic, we don’t have access to continuous real-time data for the weather conditions due to communication disruptions that happen frequently,” a description of the project read. “Having real-time data can contribute to the safety of the hunters and travellers in fast-changing weather conditions.”
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Co-Evaluation Lab also received funding under this stream to conduct a needs assessment for culturally relevant training resources for Inuit research advisors and research advisors in Yukon and the NWT. Eventually, Co-Evaluation Lab said it would like to develop a digital research training hub.
These two projects and five others will share $1.6 million over three years. ArcticNet said the approved projects under this stream were selected by its Inuit Research Management Committee.
In the Northern Research Leaders Program category, $2.4 million will be shared by three projects over four years, including creating positions at Aurora College to study the effects of climate and landscape change and industrial development on freshwater environments.
The project’s description said the funding will create two aquatic scientist positions in Yellowknife and a research coordinator position in Inuvik.
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The Dene Nation is one of three recipients of funding under the First Nations Research Program stream. It is planning to use its share of $950,000 to “manage, preserve, study, and protect the Bathurst caribou herd through the transfer and integration of traditional Yellowknives Dene First Nation knowledge,” according to the project description.
A complete list of projects was shared with the July 29 news release announcing the funding.
Additionally, ArcticNet said it is investing more than $4 million to “strengthen research management and governance capacity.”
$3.6 million will go to Inuit Nunangat over five years, while $750,000 will be shared between Yukon, NWT and Eeyou Istchee, the name for the Grand Council of the Crees and their territory primarily located in northern Quebec.
