Arctic Change, December 2014
Pilot
Mackenzie Data
Management System
Carolyn DuBois
Water Program Manager
The Gordon Foundation
[email protected]
Dr. Erin Kelly
Associate Assistant Deputy Minister
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Government of the Northwest Territories
[email protected]
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Mackenzie Data Management System:
Overview of the Pilot
NWT Water Strategy CBM Data
Mackenzie Data Management
System
Communities
Storage
Decision-makers
Interpretation
Visualization
Mackenzie River Basin
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Drains 20% of Canada’s land mass
Among least studied Basins in the world
Basin spans 3 provinces and 3 territories
Many aboriginal peoples maintain
subsistence lifestyles within the basin
• Experiencing rapid change due to climate
change and resource development
• Vital to northern livelihoods and health
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Mackenzie River Basin Initiative Strategy
Objectives
Raise profile of the Basin
Data for decision-making
Basin-wide collaboration
www.gordonfoundation.ca
Approach
Support innovative research and communications to strengthen community involvement in
freshwater management and policy.
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Northern Voices, Northern Waters
Northerners expressed
concerns about their
water
(transportation, subsistence, spiritual,
cultural and economic purposes, etc.)
Collaborative effort
(Aboriginal leadership, communities,
governments, regulatory boards,
environmental non-government
organizations and industry, resulted in a
draft Strategy (2009))
Strategy released in
May 2010 by GNWT
and AANDC
guidance provided by
Aboriginal Steering
Committee
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Released in May 2010
• Vision
• Goals
• ‘Keys to Success’
Released in May 2011
• ‘Keys to Success’ broken down into
Action Items
• Due dates and lead agencies for each
Action Item listed
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Tailor-made community monitoring
Community Questions
Collect
Information
Communitybased
Water
Monitoring
• What are the questions
relating to water?
• What information is
needed to answer the
questions?
• What information is already
available (e.g.long-term data)?
• What additional information can
be collected?
• Capacity and training to collect
information
• Monitors collect reliable information
• Decision makers have reliable
information
Community Questions
• Can we drink the water?
• What is in the water and is it changing?
• What are the impacts of local and upstream
development and climate change?
• Are there contaminants in the water that can
affect the health of fish and wildlife?
Understand • What do all the numbers mean?
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• How do these numbers compare to long-term
Information
data ?
• How do these numbers compare to guidelines?
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NWT-wide
community-based monitoring sites
• 2012 and 2013 monitoring locations
• 2014 sampling season
• 20 communities
• 40+ sites throughout the NWT
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Equipment to measure what is happening at
the time of sampling
YSI Sonde 6600 – every 2- 4 hours
Measures: Temperature, Conductivity, pH, Oxidation/Reduction Potential (ORP), Dissolved
Oxygen, Turbidity, Chlorophyll
Grab Water Samples – 3 to 5 times
Measures: Over 70 parameters
Taiga Laboratory, Yellowknife
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Equipment to measure what is happening over
longer periods of time
Passive Samplers
Diffusion Gradient in Thin Films (DGTs) – 3 days
Measures: Dissolved Metals
Trent University, Peterborough
Polyethylene Membrane Device (PMDs) – 1 month
Measures: Dissolved Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PACs)
University Alberta, Edmonton
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Partnering to Build a Pilot Mackenzie Data
Management System
NWT Water Strategy monitoring locations, partners and communities
• Dehcho First Nations Aboriginal Aquatic Resources and Ocean Management
• Inuvialuit Settlement Community-based Monitoring Program
• NWT Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program
• Wek’eezhii Land and Water Board and Renewable Resources Board
• Behchokǫ̀ - Tłįchǫ Government
• Dettah and N’dilo - Yellowknives Dene First Nation
• Fort Fitzgerald - Smith Landing First Nation
• Fort Good Hope- Yamoga Land Corporation, Community Council, Metis Land Corporation and Renewable Resource Council
• Fort Smith - Fort Smith Metis Local, Northwest Territory Metis Nation, Salt River First Nation, and the Town of Fort Smith
• Fort McPherson- Renewable Resource Council
• Fort Providence -Dehcho First Nation
• Fort Resolution - Deninu Kue First Nation, Fort Resolution Métis Council and the Hamlet of Fort Resolution
• Fort Simpson - Liidlii Kue First Nation
• Hay River and Hay River Dene Reserve - K'atl'odeeche First Nation
• Inuvik - Hunters & Trappers Committee
• Kakisa - Ka'a'geetu First Nation
• Nahanni Butte: Nahanni Butte Dene Band
• Tulita - Fort Norman Metis Lands and Financial Corporation
• Norman Wells – Town of Norman Wells and Renewable Resource Council
• Tsiigehtchic - Gwicha Gwich'in Council and Renewable Resource Council
• Trout Lake: Sambaa K’e Dene Band
• Wrigley - Pehdzeh Ki First Nation
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Mackenzie Data Management System
NWT Water Strategy CBM Data
Mackenzie Data Management
System
Communities
Storage
Decision-makers
Interpretation
Visualization
Pilot
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Tesera Systems Inc.
Development underway
Scheduled launch: September 2015
Open source software
Low cost to grow modify and maintain
Hosted on Amazon Cloud
High degree of interoperability
Testing a concept
Mackenzie Data Management System
NWT Water Strategy CBM Data
Other CBM datasets
Other parameters: invertebrates,
fish, muskrat
Mackenzie Data Management
System
Communities basin-wide
Storage
Decision-makers basin-wide
Interpretation
Visualization
Pilot
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Tesera Systems Inc.
Development underway
Scheduled launch: September 2015
Open source software
Low cost to grow modify and maintain
Hosted on Amazon Cloud
High degree of interoperability
Testing a concept
Long-term vision
• Expand analytical interpretation
capabilities
• Include other relevant aquatic indicators
(invertebrates, fish, muskrat)
• Include other CBM datasets, collected
throughout the Basin
Carolyn DuBois
Dr. Erin Kelly
[email protected]
[email protected]
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