Banner Photo: Gita Ljubicic
Our projects aim to address community-identified priorities. Our goal is for research to benefit community partners, contribute to decision-making, improve research practice, and support the next generation of northern researchers.
You can explore our current and past projects below. Select the project of interest to see a summary of each project, along with details of communities and people involved. You can also access copies of all reports, publications, and materials created in each project.
Current Projects
For information on previous research visit the Past Projects page
SUN Team Members also play different levels of supporting roles in the following projects:
- Ujjiqsurniq Avatiptini (Ability to Observe our Surroundings): A knowledge exchange between Mittimatalingmiut and Arviarmiut (Ljubicic, Carter)
- Weather and aajurait (lead) Monitoring for sea ice safety during the break-up season: (Ljubicic)
- Conservation Through Reconciliation Partnership (Matthews, Ljubicic)
- Arctic Corridors, Northern Voices (Carter, Ljubicic)
- Kangut: Documenting Inuit knowledge of light geese (Carter, Ljubicic)
- Improving Canada’s climate change projections by incorporating Arctic shrub feedbacks (Watts, Ljubicic)
- PPP-SERA: Polar Prediction Project Societal and Economic Research Application (Ljubicic)
- Sea ice use and its relationship to Nunavut National Parks (Ljubicic)
- SIKU: The Inuit Knowledge Wiki and Social Mapping Platform (Sheremata, Ljubicic)
- SmartICE: A landfast sea ice information platform to support local decision-making (Wilson, Ljubicic)
- Water for life in Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet) Nunavut: Inuit contributions to community-based source water protection (Ljubicic)
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