Value Components - Search and Reports

There are four sources of monitoring information accessible from this web site:

1) Supplementary Report on the Status of the Environment

As part of the NWT Environmental Audit, a Supplementary Report on the Status of the Environment has been prepared (December 2005). Key indicators of change for selected Valued Components were identified, and trends were assessed for the Mackenzie Valley, the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, and the NWT as a whole.

2) Valued Components - State of Knowledge

The NWT CIMP and Audit Working Group (WG) is using a Valued Components (VC) approach to monitoring. "Valued Components" may be defined in plain language as "elements of the environment that people see as important."   The environment is defined as including physical, biological, social, economic, and cultural elements.

Through meetings, workshops, and consultations, the Working Group has identified a range of priority Valued Components to be monitored.

The material posted to this website is based on the report:  A Preliminary State of Knowledge of Valued Components for the NWT Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program (NWT CIMP) and Audit - Final Draft. February 1, 2002. (Updated June 2007)	VIEW REPORT
This report has a comprehensive list of references for each of the Valued Components
You can search groups of VCs by regions within the NWT. Please note that search function is being worked on to reflect new information and search parameters.	SEARCH the Valued Components
For direct links to information for each of the specific Valued Components, go to the complete list.	LIST Valued Components

Two reports to collect monitoring information on standardized protocols for Valued Components were completed in April 2008. The first report covers 10 VC's as listed below:

• Water Quantity
• Snow, Permafrost and Ground Ice
• Fish Quality
• Moose
• Terrestrial Mammals
• Marine Mammals
• Beluga and Bowhead Whales
• Vegetation
• Climate
• Air Quality

"Standardized Protocols for Collection of Monitoring Information: NWT Cumulative Impacts Monitoring Program"

The second report covers the following 3 VC's:

• Caribou
• Fish Habitat, Population and Harvest
• Water and Sediment Quality

"Data Collection Protocols for the Northwest Territories Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program VC's: CARIBOU, FISH HABITAT, POPULATION & HARVEST and WATER & SEDIMENT QUALITY"

 

3) Selected NWT CIMP Projects

Implementation of long-term NWT CIMP monitoring is expected to begin in 2006. While developing the monitoring program, the NWT CIMP and Audit Working Group has supported a variety of monitoring and capacity-building projects through an annual call for proposals. Reports and posters from selected projects are available.

4) CIMP- Tariuq Inventory

The CIMP-Tariuq Inventory was a joint project between the NWT Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program (CIMP) and the Tariuq (Ocean) Monitoring Program. The Inventory is a metadatabase of current and historic environmental, social, economic, and community monitoring related data and research, developed at the recommendation of the NWT CIMP and Audit Working Group. The Inventory does not contain monitoring data; rather it provides information about existing monitoring datasets as well as contact information for individual administrators for these datasets. Where possible, records are geo-referenced.