Table 2.
Identified environment-health monitoring programmes in the Circumpolar North that had some level of involvement with Indigenous communities and used some form of information or communication technology.
| Monitoring Programme* | Geographic Region | Associated Organizations |
|---|---|---|
| Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Society (ABEKS) | Porcupine Caribou Herd area and Mackenzie Delta area in Northwest Territories (NWT), Yukon, and Alaska | ABEKS Directors, participants and partners are from Gwich’in and Inuvialuit organizations, governments and are scientists, and community residents |
| Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) | Arctic Wide | Arctic Council |
| Avativut Program | Nunavik | Centre d’études Nordiques – Université Laval |
| Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme (CBMP) | Circumpolar North | Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (Arctic Council) |
| Community-Based Water Quality Program (CBWQP) | Northwest Territories Wide | Mackenzie DataStream, NWT Discovery Portal, Government of NWT |
| Community-Based Wildlife Monitoring Network (CBWMN) | Nunavut Settlement Area | Nunavut Wildlife Management Board |
| Community Ecological Monitoring Program (CEMP) | Yukon Boreal Forest – Kluane Lake, Mayo, Faro, Watson Lake, and Whitehorse | Arctic Institute Research Station at Kluane Lake, Environment Yukon, the Canadian Wildlife Services and Yukon College |
| Community Observing Network for Adaptation and Security (CONAS) | Across the Bering Sea in both Alaska and the Russian Far East | Universities of Alaska and Idaho, the Aleut International Association, local community and regional governments in the U.S. and Russia |
| eNuk Program*** (eNuk) | Rigolet, Nunatsiavut | The Rigolet Inuit Community Government, the University of Guelph, the Labrador Institute of Memorial University, the University of Alberta, Nunatsiavut Government |
| Inuit Siku Atlas | Baffin Island Nunavut – Cape Dorset, Clyde River, Igloolik, and Pangnirtung | Inuit Sea Ice Use and Occupancy Project |
| Inuvialuit Settlement Region Community-Based Monitoring Program (ISR-CBMP) | Inuvialuit Settlement Region | ISR Hunters and Trappers Committees, ISR Wildlife Co-Management Boards, Inuvialuit Game Council, the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, & the Joint Secretariat |
| Marian Watershed Stewardship Program (MWSP) | Tlicho First Nation in the Northwest Territories | Tlicho Government, Wek’eezhii Land and Water Board and Wilfred Laurier University |
| Northern Contaminants Program (NCP) | Northern Canada | Aboriginal Affairs & Northern Development Canada |
| Nunavut Community Aquatic Monitoring Program (NCAMP) | Nunavut Wide | Fisheries and Sealing Division of the Government of Nunavut |
| PISUNA-net (PISUNA) | Greenland | The Greenland Government, Local Resource Councils, Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA) |
| Seasonal Ice Zone Observing Network (SIZONet) | Bering and Chukchi Sea | University of Alaska Fairbanks, Sea-Ice System Services, ELOKA |
| SIKU** | Eastern Hudson Bay region of Nunavut and Quebec’s Nunavik region | The Arctic Eider Society |
| SmartICE** | Nain, St. John’s and Pond Inlet | Memorial University, Nunatsiavut Government, Nain Research Centre |