NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Squires Taylor, Cindy
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The Researcher will conduct a survey, approximately 30 km on either side of the Mackenzie River using satellite imagery. A classification will be undertaken of the area from the Mackenzie Delta to the Fort Simpson area, with wider zones along the east side to include proposed pipeline routes. The information can be plotted as colour maps to show the location of trap lines, forest fires or wildlife...

Principal Investigator: Aiken, Susan
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher will test some very standard agriculture seeds that have been developed in Alberta to determine whether they will grow in test plots in Iqaluit and Lake Harbour. She will also identify areas across the NWT which may be suitable as long term climatic change monitoring sites....

Principal Investigator: Ritchie, J.C.
Licensed Year(s): 1988 1987
Summary: Dr. Ritchie is looking at live plants and the remains of plants at the bottom of lakes to see how plants and weather have changed since the glaciers left the Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk area 10,000 years ago....

Principal Investigator: Fairbarns, Matt
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To choose study sites for work to be done next Spring on investigation of vegetation-permafrost-microclimate relationships associated with subarctic pipeline disturbances....

Principal Investigator: Niemela, Tuomo
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: 1. Mapping of the local mycoflora 2. To collect fungi and seed material of (mainly) trees 3. A study of migratory birds...

Principal Investigator: Morton, J.K.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To collect seeds and herbarium specimens of a number of specimens for subsequent study, laboratory work and classification. Specific interest is in the family Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds)....

Principal Investigator: Yoshie, Fumio
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To undertake a study of the tundra biomass (general vegetation) as part of a larger study on permafrost....

Principal Investigator: Cody, W.J.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To undertake botanical studies and collect specimens for preservation and cataloguing....

Principal Investigator: Gill, Don
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: To collect samples of soil and vegetation to assess the ecological importance of the spring flood and downstream importance of hydroelectric developments....

Principal Investigator: Vaartnou, H.
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: To establish test plots of various species of grass to determine the best types to be used to revegetate sites disturbed by pipeline construction....