NCP Funded Projects (2017-2018)

 
 

Total Human health: $1,080,965

 

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Total Community based monitoring and research: $243,665

 

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Environmental monitoring and research
Project Title Project leader Funding Awarded
Northern Contaminants Air Monitoring: Organic Pollutant Measurement Hayley Hung (EC)  $187,207
Air Measurements of Mercury at Alert and Little Fox Lake Alexandra Steffen (EC)  $115,700
Passive Air Sampling Network for Organic Pollutants and Mercury Hayley Hung (EC)  $34,811
Temporal Trends of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Metals in Ringed Seals from the Canadian Arctic Magali Houde and Derek Muir (EC) $52,594
Temporal and Spatial Trends of Legacy and Emerging Organic and Metal/Element Contaminants in Canadian Polar Bears Robert Letcher (EC) $34,630
Temporal trends of mercury and halogenated organic compounds in Hendrickson Island, Sanikiluaq and Pangnirtung beluga Gary Stern (UManitoba) $43,598
Temporal Trends of Contaminants in Arctic Seabirds Eggs Birgit Braune (EC) $77,125
Temporal trends and spatial variations in mercury in sea-run Arctic char from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut Marlene Evans & Derek Muir (EC) $16,100
Temporal Trends of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Mercury in Landlocked Char in the High Arctic Derek Muir, Jane Kirk, Günter Köck (EC & Austrian Academy of Sciences) $49,150
Spatial and Long-term Trends in Persistent Organic Contaminants and Metals in Lake Trout and Burbot from the Northwest Territories Marlene Evans & Derek Muir (EC) $48,800
Temporal Trend Studies of Trace Metals and Halogenated Organic Contaminants (HOCs), Including New and Emerging Persistent Compounds, in Mackenzie River Burbot, Fort Good Hope, NWT Gary Stern (UManitoba) $34,604
Long Term Trends of Halogenated Organic Contaminants and Metals in Lake Trout from Two Yukon Lakes; Kusawa and Laberge Mary Gamberg, Derek Muir $36,080
Arctic Caribou Contaminant Monitoring Program Mary Gamberg, Derek Muir $85,590
Community based seawater monitoring for organic contaminants and mercury in the Canadian Arctic Derek Muir, Amilia DeSilva, Jane Kirk (EC), Rainer Lohmann (U Rhode Island) $40,780
Assessing Persistent Organic Pollutants in Canadian Arctic Air and Water as an Entry Point into the Arctic Food Chain Liisa Jantunen (EC), Gary Stern (UManitoba) $34,500
Investigation of the Toxic Effects of Mercury in Landlocked Arctic Char Niladri Basu (McGill) $56,005
Impact of climate change on the mobilization and bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants in arctic freshwater systems Ana Cabrerizo, Amilia DeSilva, Derek Muir (EC) $22,800
Climate change, contaminants, ecotoxicology: interactions in Arctic seabirds at their southern range limits Kyle Elliot (McGill) and Kim Fernie (EC) $34,025
Plastics as a vector of contaminants in Arctic seabirds Mark Mallory (Acadia), and Jennifer Provencher (Carleton) $15,785
Microplastics in the Beaufort Sea beluga food web Peter S. Ross (Vancouver Aquarium) $36,800
Interacting effects of contaminants and climate change on the health of western Arctic beluga whales: applying an expanded gene expression toolbox to a time series Marie Noel (Vancouver Aquarium) and Lisa Loseto (DFO) $39,721
Surface-air mercury fluxes during spring snowmelt, Iqaluit, NU Murray Richardson (Carleton University) $41,113
Sources of methylmercury, perfluoroalkyl substances, and polychlorinated biphenyls to ringed seals of Lake Melville, Northern Labrador Jane Kirk (EC) $30,000
Investigating the Sources, Abundance and Types of Microplastics in the Arctic Chelsea Rochman (University of Toronto), Patricia Corcoran (Western University) $10,000
Fine-scale temporal changes in mercury accumulation in Labrador ringed seals (Pusa hispida) using laser ablation technology on whiskers and claws: influence of a changing ice regime Tanya Brown (MUN) and Marie Noel (Van Aquarium) $25,143
Temporal trends of emerging pollutant and mercury deposition through ice and sediment core sampling Cora Young (Memorial University) $45,000
Investigation into walleye mercury concentrations in Tathlina Lake Deb MacLatchy & Heidi Swanson $28,405

Total Environmental Monitoring and Research: $1,266,066

 

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Total Communications, capacity and outreach: $610,876

 

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Program Coordination and Indigenous Partnerships
Project Title Project leader Funding Awarded
Coordination and Administration of the Northern Contaminants Program (NCP) Sarah Kalhok (INAC) $538,000
Facilitation of International Action Related to the Long-range Transport of Contaminants into the Arctic Sarah Kalhok (INAC) $200,000
Council of Yukon First Nations Participation in the Northern Contaminants Program James MacDonald, Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) $55,200
Dene Nation Participation in the Northern Contaminants Program Trevor Teed, Director, Lands and Environment (Dene Nation) $63,346
ITK National Coordination Eric Loring (ITK) $150,000
Inuit Circumpolar Council – Canada Activities in Support of Circumpolar and Global Contaminant Instruments and Activities Tom Sheldon (ICC-Canada) $158,125

Total National and regional coordination: $1,046,125

 

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