Christine Dunbar

Christine was born and raised in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (NWT). She is a beneficiary of the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC) that is passionate about species conservation, wildlife, and research within the North. She received her undergraduate degree at Lethbridge College in Ecosystem Management in 2022, where she completed an undergraduate thesis on arsenic trioxide within soils near Giant Mine, NWT. Shortly after graduating she started working with the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) as an intern. During her time with the GNWT, she worked with the Water Management and Monitoring division and sampled water, small-bodied fish, and benthic invertebrates for contaminants. In the Fall of 2023, Christine began her master’s degree at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. She shifted her focus from fish to muskox, with her project looking at muskox demographics and spatial drivers of their distribution within Thaidene Nëné, an Indigenous Protected Area within the Northwest Territories. Christine is thrilled to be collaborating and learning from Indigenous communities in the north and researching within her home territory. In her spare time, she enjoys bird watching, beading, and hiking.