The Deh Cho Aboriginal Aquatic Resources and Oceans Management program - linking indigenous peoples and academic researchers for monitoring of aquatic resources in a region of rapid permafrost loss
Abstract
The Dehcho Aboriginal Aquatic Resources and Oceans Management (Dehcho-AAROM) program is a regional program within the Dehcho region in the Northwest Territories of Canada that facilitates community-based water monitoring. Dehcho AAROM is a program that aims to manage indigenous fisheries with the main objective of having Dehcho Dene on the land monitoring their aquatic resources. The Dehcho-AAROM program works collaboratively with Dehcho First Nations member communities, university researchers and government departments to fulfill water monitoring objectives in the Dehcho region. In recent years an effort has been aimed at understanding impacts of ongoing rapid permafrost thaw as this may impact valuable fish stocks. Mike Low is the Program Coordinator for the Dehcho AAROM program, and he was born and raised in Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada, and has now built a home there. He grew up on the waters of the Great Slave Lake, fishing and hunting with his dad who worked for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, at the time and since a young age was involved in many fisheries management projects. Presently Mike continues to carry out many of these projects and research initiatives with Dehcho AAROM. Mike's background is in science, receiving education at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, University of Alberta, and Royal Roads University; he uses this combination of experience and education to work with local indigenous communities to collect data for researchers and continue practicing their traditions of being on the land.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020AGUFMB123...01L
- Keywords:
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- 0428 Carbon cycling;
- BIOGEOSCIENCES;
- 0470 Nutrients and nutrient cycling;
- BIOGEOSCIENCES;
- 0475 Permafrost;
- cryosphere;
- and high-latitude processes;
- BIOGEOSCIENCES;
- 1823 Frozen ground;
- HYDROLOGY