NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Stirling, Ian
Licensed Year(s): 1990 1988 1987
Summary: Dr. Ian Stirling and his team will record underwater sounds of walruses and observe their behaviour....

Principal Investigator: Stirling, Ian
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: Use sub-ice recording to study distribution of overwintering populations of seals in relation to plynyas, sea ice conditions, patterns of freeze-up, distribution of ringed seal pupping areas, distribution of polar bears and proposed winter shipping lanes....

Principal Investigator: Stirling, Ian
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: (1) To study how the polar bear relates to its environment and what effect the environment has on its population growth. (2) To conduct behavioural studies of polar bear. (3) To conduct aerial surveys of seals in order to provide information for polar bear studies....

Principal Investigator: Stirling, Ian
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: (1) Effects of oil and polar bears, baseline heavy metal and toxic chemical surveys and population surveys of polar bears. (2) Survey of polar bear denning areas and polar bear tagging. (3) To assess seasonal movement patterns of polar bears and denning site surveys....

Principal Investigator: Stirling, Ian
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To conduct aerial surveys of ringed and bearded seals and polar bears to assess these species' ability to recover and the rate of recovery after a marked decline in survival rate during 1974 and 1975....

Principal Investigator: Stirling, Ian
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: to capture and earmark polar bears as support research in establishing a management program for this species....

Principal Investigator: Stirling, Ian
Licensed Year(s): 1976
Summary: To collect bearded and ringed seals....