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Damian Power is a Registered Professional Biologist with more than 40 years’ experience with inventory and research projects on many species of mammals (bears, furbearers, ungulates, small mammals, and cetaceans; birds (raptors, waterfowl, tundra and forest birds); and amphibians.
Damian has worked on wildlife inventory, monitoring, and habitat assessment projects in Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, Alaska, Alberta, and throughout British Columbia.
In 1972, Damian participated as a field assistant to a team of biologists in the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Alaska researching the potential environmental impacts of the proposed Mackenzie Valley Gas Pipeline. Much of this research was focused on aerial and ground surveys of the Porcupine Caribou Herd, in addition to surveys of raptors and migratory waterfowl. He also assisted with surveys of Banks Island muskoxen.
Damian has participated in the radio-collaring and telemetry of Grizzly Bears in British Columbia; telemetry of woodland caribou populations in Alberta; DNA sampling for bears on the mid-coast and northern British Columbia; DNA sampling for grizzly bears and wolverines in Nunavut, and a 5-year monitoring program of the fall Grizzly Bear population of the Owikeno Lake area of British Columbia. He has co-authored a bear sign identification guide for the British Columbia Ministry of Environment.
From 2002 to 2004, Damian worked as a field biologist surveying Killer Whales and Humpback Whales in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea.
Tasks included photographing whales and recording their acoustics for identification purposes; and collecting tissue samples by means of a Pneu-Dart gun for DNA and contaminant analysis.
From 2003 to 2012, Damian was the Senior Wildlife Field Biologist for the wildlife baseline surveys and monitoring program for the Agnico Eagle Meadowbank Gold Mine project, north of Baker Lake, Nunavut, and since 2008 has conducted baseline wildlife surveys for the Areva Uranium Mine project at Kiggavik, and for the Cameco Corporation at Qamanaarjuk Lake in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut.
For these projects, he has conducted aerial and ground surveys of caribou, muskoxen, carnivores, waterfowl, raptors, other breeding birds, small mammal trapping, and soil and vegetation sampling, and was involved in the writing of the project Wildlife Management Plan and Environmental Impact Assessment for the Meadowbank gold mine.
Damian has conducted similar surveys for other mining projects in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, plus aerial snow tracking surveys of ungulates and furbearers; DNA sampling of grizzly bears and wolverines; and boat surveys of marine mammals and seabirds in the Beaufort Sea.
In 2011, Damian participated in the surveys of the calving grounds of the Beverly and Ahiak, and Queen Maud Gulf caribou herds.