Danny Yakeleya
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Danny is from Tulı́t'a and a member of the Fort Norman Métis Land Corporation. He has a long history working in the Sahtú region. He was involved with the Fort Norman Métis Land Corporation for many years. Danny was a part of the Sahtú Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement negotiating and implementing teams through his work with the Sahtú Tribal Council and the Sahtú Secretariat Incorporated. Danny also worked with the local Land Corporation and the Tulı́t'a District Land Corporation. Danny has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Calgary. He also has a Certified General Accountant Designation. Danny is a businessman, he started his own companies in heavy equipment services and oil and gas work. Danny is currently working with the Sahtú Dene Council as a Project Coordinator.
Grace grew up in Northern Ontario and is currently based in Ottawa. Her research focuses on Indigenous-led fisheries, innovative Indigenous governance and land claim practices, and the decolonization of ecological knowledge and resource management in Canada’s North. She hopes to facilitate policy processes using deliberative, ethical, community-focused processes based on mutual respect. She has over ten years of experience in public policy, natural resource management, and aquatic science. In her spare time, Grace enjoys camping and watercolour painting.
James Hodson is an Environmental Assessment / Wildlife Biologist with the Wildlife Division of GNWT Environment and Natural Resources in Yellowknife. Before joining the GNWT, James held a similar position with the Canadian Wildlife Service of Environment Canada. His work focuses on the review of industrial project applications, development of guidelines to minimize impacts to wildlife and habitat, and contributing to the development of wildlife monitoring programs to address cumulative effects. James has a PhD in Wildlife Ecology from Laval University, where he studied snowshoe hare habitat selection and changes in hare distribution following timber harvesting and forest fires in northeastern Quebec. James is excited to be working with the SRRB and Sahtú community members on the development of a community-based winter wildlife track monitoring program, and looks forward to learning more about the culture, landscape and wildlife of the Sahtú region. 
Johann Strube is an environmental sociologist interested in environmental justice, the political ecology of social reproduction in North America, and the decolonization of human-non-human relationships. As a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Public Policy and Administration, Johann contributes to two large community-based research projects on Indigenous Fisheries in the North: 1) FISHES Fostering Indigenous Small-scale fisheries for Health, Economy, and food Security) and 2) Advancing Community Biomonitoring, Fishery Assessment and Data Stewardship in Nunavut. Continuing his doctoral research, Johann also studies the impacts of transboundary water governance on the Anishinaabe wild rice economy at Rainy Lake (Ontario, Minnesota). Previous research projects were centered on peasant economies in Upstate New York, Italy and Austria, the implementation of sustainability metrics in US agriculture, and the siting of proposed oil and natural gas pipelines in the United States. Follow his blog at 
Joshua is the Research Project Administrator for FISHES Project at Carleton University, working with Professor Stephan Schott and the GE3LS team. Joshua has over ten years of experience planning and managing programs with the Department of Recreation & Athletics, in addition to recently completing a career development assignment with the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs as the PhD and Website Administrator.
Kimberly Howland has spent over 20 years conducting research on arctic fish ecology and population dynamics through university and federal government agencies. She obtained a doctoral degree in Environmental Ecology from the University of Alberta in 2005 and currently works as a research scientist with the Arctic Research Division of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Winnipeg. Her doctoral research focused on the ecology, life history and evolutionary biology of anadromous and freshwater salmonids in the Canadian Arctic and much of her subsequent research has been focused on trophic relationships, movements and population dynamics evolutionary ecology and critical habitat requirements of harvested fish species in large river and lake systems mainly in the western Arctic. Kimberly enjoys working closely with various aboriginal groups throughout the Northwest Territories in collecting and providing information that can be used in monitoring, identifying important habitats, and co-management of their fisheries.
Louise Chavarie is from a small fishing town on the east coast of Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec. She grew up surrounded by sea and fishing, especially cod fisheries. The cod fisheries collapsed in the early 1990s, and this experience led her to follow a career in fish biology. She did her master’s research in northern regions (Paulautuk and Kuujjuaq) on climate change and Arctic Char with the University of Waterloo in Ontario. Louise is currently a PhD candidate in aquatic biology working for the past six years on the multiple forms of lake trout in Great Bear Lake with the University of Alberta in Edmonton. She is conducting a lake trout project in Great Bear Lake in collaboration with the University of Alberta and Fisheries and Oceans, with support from the Sahtú Renewable Resources Board. She has sampled and spent time in every arm of the Great Bear Lake: McVicar Arm in 2005 & 2013, McTavish Arm in 2009, Dease Arm in 2010, Smith Arm in 2011, and Keith Arm in 2005, 2011, and 2012. Louise has appreciated every minute of her eight years of research in Arctic regions, and hopes to spend as much time there as she can.
Dr. Yamin is an expert in aquatic ecology. He has got more than 20 years of experience in fisheries and freshwater ecology research and management. He was born in Pakistan and got his PhD degree in ecology from France. At present he is working as Visiting Fellow with Fisheries and Oceans Canada at Winnipeg. Along with Mackenzie freshwater ecosystems in NWT, he is also working on trophic ecology of marine ecosystems in Nunavut. He is one of the co-authors of DFO Technical Report on Climate Change Assessment in the Arctic Basin.
Mylène Ratelle is based at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, where she holds a project manager position for northern research. Mylène Ratelle received her PhD in Public Health from the Université de Montréal in 2015. Her specialization is in risk management related to environmental health challenges. She previously completed interdisciplinary programs related to biological sciences and the health-environment interaction, integrating knowledge in nutrition, communication, health sciences, and ecology. She currently works on projects using biomonitoring in Indigenous communities in Northern Canada (Northwest Territories, Yukon, Northern Ontario) with the aim to examine the relationship between exposure to environmental contaminants, nutritional status and traditional diet. This objectives of the projects are to assess contaminant and nutrients levels, investigate the role of country foods, identify the risk factors of contaminant levels and document how to better communicate results, specifically with Indigenous populations. Mylène has worked in collaboration with the Sahtú Renewable Resources Board since 2016, initially doing her postdoctoral research. Through her projects, she noticed the importance of recognizing the links between physical health, psychological wellbeing, the physical environment we live in and our behaviour towards it. She is eager to collaborate with the SRRB to support local initiatives.
Dr. Stephan Schott is a Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University with a PhD in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics. He teaches graduate courses in natural resource management, energy economics, energy tools and evaluation methods and theoretical foundations of public policy. He has extensively worked in interdisciplinary teams with indigenous governments and communities, natural scientists, engineers and social scientists from other disciplines. He has substantial research and teaching experience in the Canadian Arctic where he managed and is leading several major Arctic research projects. His research currently focuses on food security and Northern fisheries, alternative energy and sustainable development in the Arctic, the economic impacts of mining on local communities and local business development, wildlife management and knowledge co-evolution, and energy strategies and carbon emission reduction programmes in North America and Europe.
Wendy Wright is a Geomatics Professional who graduated from UPEI with a BSc in Biology before completing both an Advanced Diploma in Remote Sensing and an Advanced Diploma in Applied Geomatics Research at the Centre of Geomatics (COGS) in Nova Scotia. Immediately after finishing at COGS, she accepted a position with GNWT-ENR Wildlife Management in Inuvik, where she spent nearly 10 years providing a wide range of analytical and mapping support to ENR staff and outside agencies. She was responsible for the day to day management, mapping and analysis of satellite collar data, as well as providing support for survey planning and post survey data analysis. Other major projects included animating seasonal movements of barrenground caribou from telemetry data and working on a number of traditional knowledge projects. She currently lives in PEI.
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