Principal Investigator:Svoboda, Josef Licensed Year(s):
1994
19931992199119881987 Summary:
The aim of the Sverdrup Pass Project is to learn how vegetation returned to the artic realm after the retreat of the continental ice sheet (8000 years ago) and the prospect of the land becoming green if climate warms. The Itex project is geared to the effect of climate warming on the vegetation. The snow-fence study at Baker Lake is concerned with the effects of long-lying snow deposited on both s...
Principal Investigator:Svoboda, Josef Licensed Year(s):
1985
Summary:
To study productivity of high Arctic meadows; continue measurements of the Alexandra Fiord glacier; to remeasure marked colonies of saxicolous lichens....
Principal Investigator:Svoboda, Josef Licensed Year(s):
1984
Summary:
1) To study productivity of high arctic meadows; 2) to experiment with the efficiency of dome-shaped greenhouses for growing vegetables; 3) to study plant communities and prepare a vegetation map of the Sverdrup Pass....
Principal Investigator:Svoboda, Josef Licensed Year(s):
1982
Summary:
To a continuation of a study involving plant communities peculiar to the area....
Principal Investigator:Svoboda, Josef Licensed Year(s):
1981
Summary:
(1) Study of a lush high arctic lowland oasis - Alexandra Fiord - June - September 1981. (2) Comparative study of two arctic grasses (Saxifraga cernua) Lake Hazen & Rankin Inlet - June to August 1981. (3) Investigation into the possibility of growing native arctic plants as a food crop - Rankin Inlet - July - August 1981. (4) A study of the natural radioactivity in uranium rich northe...
Principal Investigator:Svoboda, Josef Licensed Year(s):
1980
Summary:
1) To undertake a study of arctic plants as potential food crops. Rankin Inlet - Summer 1980 2) To continue a study on the plant diversity in the high Arctic. Resolute, Alexandra Fiord, and Lake Hazen - June to August 1980...
Principal Investigator:Svoboda, Josef Licensed Year(s):
1979
Summary:
(1) A radiocesium study. (2) A study of how tundra plant communities have adapted and evolved, their distribution, abundance and productivity....
Principal Investigator:Svoboda, Josef Licensed Year(s):
1978
Summary:
To study plant communities, their distribution, abundance, and productivity and to study how certain plants have adapted to arctic environments....