NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Povey, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 2004 2003 2002
Summary: These terrestrial studies will include vegetation and soils investigations. The primary goals are to classify vegetation, landforms, soils and permafrost in the project area, to identify locations of rare plants and uncommon plant communities, and to co...

Principal Investigator: Nixon, Mark
Licensed Year(s): 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990
Summary: This ongoing survey examines permafrost so as to better understand how the active layer varies locally and regionally and how it will respond to environmental change, including but not restricted to climate change. The research team will survey from For...

Principal Investigator: Wein, Ross
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The research team will be examining areas of permafrost south of Inuvik and near Hay River in order to assess the rate of loss of permafrost as a result of the warming in climate over the past twenty years. The loss in permafrost may be speeded up following a local fire. The wetlands that replace these areas of permafrost could lead to a greater production of methane (one of the gases that contr...

Principal Investigator: Sakai, Akira
Licensed Year(s): 1974
Summary: Studies on permafrost and forest vegetation, Mackenzie Valley....

Principal Investigator: Gill, Don
Licensed Year(s): 1974
Summary: a) Winter ecology of the willow ptarmingan, Mackenzie Delta. b) Relationship between flooding, sedimentation, permafrost, and alluvial vegetation, Mackenzie River and Delta. c) Plant succession and wildlife habitat studies, Mackenzie Delta....