Principal Investigator:Insley, Stephen J Licensed Year(s):2022202120202019
2018
Summary:
The main objective is to assess and mitigate the impacts of increased shipping and sea-ice loss on marine mammals in the eastern Beaufort Sea. The primary methodology is passive acoustic monitoring at the western entrances to the Northwest Passage shipping route, particularly the Amundsen Gulf and Banks Island area.
To accomplish the objectives, the research team have designed a program to work...
Principal Investigator:Insley, Stephen J Licensed Year(s):201720162015
2014
Summary:
There are three main objectives of the current study. The first objective is to track the temporal and spatial aspects of the change in killer whale occurrence in order to understand its effect on species management and subsistence hunting in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR).
The second objective is monitor the timing and numbers of marine mammals, particularly bowhead whales, in the entr...
Principal Investigator:Insley, Stephen J Licensed Year(s):201720162015
2014
Summary:
The goal of this project is to design and maintain a long-term, locally-based, monitoring program focused on ringed seals (Pusa hispida) and bearded seals (Erignathus barbatus) in the Darnley Bay region, NWT. The goal of the first season is to conduct a pilot season from which the results will be used to determine the specific methodology moving forward. There are four main specific goals of the m...