Our Research Projects
CMN’s research program supports the resilience and health of Canada’s mountain peoples and places through partnerships based on Indigenous and Western ways of knowing that inform decision-making and action.
In 2020-21, $5.5 M in funding was awarded to 17 continuing research projects. These projects currently involve 99 collaborators, 114 trainees and 94 partner organizations.
Map of CMN's 17 Research Projects
(The numbers on the map correspond with the project numbers below)
Current Projects
Click on the projects below for more information on goals, objectives and impacts.
1. Bringing research home: Reclaiming research to tell the story of climate change in the Kluane First Nation Traditional Territory
Principal Investigator: Kate Ballegooyen
2. Co-Creation of a Governance Structure: The Case of a Recreo-Tourism Development in Mont-Orford
Principal Investigator: Laurent Bourdeau
4. Enhancing the reintroduction of Plains Bison through the inclusion of cultural monitoring and traditional knowledge in Banff National Park
Principal Investigator: William Snow
5. Explore, describe and develop a methodology to best account Indigenous perspectives on the value of Land Guardianship in Mountain Regions and the contributions to the biodiversity and well-being of their Nations
Principal Investigator: Norma Kassi
7. Indigenous Land Rights in Canada and New Zealand: Sustainable Protected Areas in Rural and Mountain Environments
Principal Investigator: Courtney Mason
9. Long-term monitoring of harvested mountain ungulates to improve their conservation and sustainable use
Principal Investigator: Marco Festa-Bianchet
15. The Shútagot’ıne Cultural Landscape Project
Principal Investigator:
Glen MacKay
17. Hills thought to be mountains: the biocultural value of island highlands in the continental plains
Principal Investigator: Dr. Murray Humphries
Completed projects
3. Effects of climate change and human activities on mountain species and ecosystems
Principal Investigator: Stan Boutin
6. From the Mountains to Our Tables: Freshwater Security in Three Canadian Eastern Rocky Mountain Watersheds
Principal Investigator: Vincent St. Louis
8. Łingít Kusteeyí (Tlingit Way of Life): Revitalizing Tlingit Law for Land and Wildlife
Principal Investigator: Aimee Schmidt
10. Managing Groundwater Resources in Mountainous Areas: Planning for and Adapting to Drought Conditions
Principal Investigator: Diana Allen
11. Mineral Dust Dynamics and Climate Change at High Latitude Mountainous Regions
Principal Investigator: James King
12. Mobilizing Mountain Metrics that Matter: Inuit-Led Environment and Health Monitoring in the Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve
Principal Investigator: Jamie Snook
13. Nı́o Nę P’ęnę́ – Trails of the Mountain Caribou: Renewing Indigenous Relationships in Conservation
Principal Investigator:
Leon Andrew
14. The Mountain Risk Knowledge Exchange – Building Risk Management Capacity and Resilience in Mountain Communities
Principal Investigator: Glyn Williams-Jones
16. The View from 2117: Human Actions, Consequences, and Perspectives on Mountain Regions
Principal Investigator: Pamela Shaw