NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Hornby, A.P.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To identify environmental factors involved in nasopharyngeal and esophageal cancers among the Canadian Inuit. This licence is conditional on all substances and drugs used being prescribed by the local physician....

Principal Investigator: Abele, Frances
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To carry out a Native Employment Training Study to study factors that contribute to the success and failure of training programs for native northerners from the perspective of trainees and communities....

Principal Investigator: Konarek, Joseph
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: Economic and socio-economic studies of renewable resources and commercial hunting, fishing, sealing and tourism; also commercial reindeer greeding....

Principal Investigator: Kershaw, G. Peter
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: Dempster Highway disturbance studies determine the state of natural recovery on human disturbances of various ages; (this includes the botanical and wildlife habitat characteristics). Also, to continue monitoring of the species and population characterisics of small mammals in 12 tundra habitats and continue monitoring of small mammal habitat selection for the 4th year of the study....

Principal Investigator: Revel, Richard, D.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: A study to document varieties of seeds used in vegetable gardening and methods used in order to promote northern gardening....

Principal Investigator: Lingnau, Brian
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To make qualitative and quantitative observations of the performance of the Dempster Highway and to suggest design improvements. Observations include cut/fill slope sloughing, permafrost, degradation from highway fills. Cuts, bridges and culverts, borrow pit degradation, road trafficability, road heave and subsidence and drainage disruption....

Principal Investigator: Elmgren, Lindsay D.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: Trapping of arctic char in order to assess the natural carrier state of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus; possible effects the virus may have on arctic char and other salmonid species will be studied. The arctic char virus will also be compared to other IPN viruses....

Principal Investigator: Courtney, Gregory W.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To determine what species of mountain midges (aquatic flies) inhabit the Richardson Mountains; describe any new species; determine the phylogentic and zoogeographic relationships of these species....

Principal Investigator: Heiermann, Miss Uta
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To study the geosocial and geoeconomical impacts arising from Beaufort Sea Oil Development....

Principal Investigator: Anderson, John C.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To conduct hydrologic studies in the Mackenzie Valley....