Research Projects

ARI has been at the forefront of renewable energy research in the Northwest Territories, conducting numerous wind and solar resource assessments over the last two decades.

Led by Max Holmes (Woods Hole Research Centre), Arctic GRO is a coordinated, international effort to collect and analyze a time-series of water quality and river discharge information from the six largest arctic rivers using identical sampling and analytical protocols....

To understand who the women chose as their escorts, how the women came to choose their escorts, and how this policy affects their birthing experience.

We are interested in exploring the cycling of metals and nutrients under ice and how changing lake ice conditions may influence some of these processes.  A better understanding of the physical and chemical limnology of lakes is important as changes...

The aim of the project is to determine whether or not RPAS LiDAR systems are cost effective and efficient tools for mapping and monitoring the effects of climate driven changes in the Western Arctic.

Climate driven changes are affecting the landscape and the way of life of the people of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR). Therefore, it is important that Inuvialuit People acquire the tools and capacity to mitigate against these changes so that...

This project is a part of a larger initiative which aim at developing a NWT wide, empirically-based map products describing the sensitivity of permafrost terrain. The goal of the project is to support the NWT wide initiative through the development...

Aurora Research Institute (ARI) has worked with several partners, including the Government of the Northwest Territories, Energy Division, to perform wind and solar energy monitoring campaigns across the Northwest Territories. These campaigns produce data that is then used to make...

The Western Arctic Research Centre (WARC) hosts three renewable energy installations. These projects all look to harness the power of the sun to reduce the amount of energy the building needs to get from the grid while also providing data...

INTERACT is a circumarctic network of currently 89 terrestrial field bases in northern Europe, Russia, US, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Scotland as well as stations in northern alpine areas. INTERACT specifically seeks to build capacity for research...