NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Satterthwaite, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher will investigate perceptions of northern residents concerning their participation in environmental assessment hearings. This information will be used in a larger project looking at the role of scientific and traditional knowledge in the environmental assessment process....

Principal Investigator: Jol, Harry M.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1990
Summary: Surveys will be conducted on the surface of the delta plains. A Pulse Ekko IV ground penetrating radar system will be used to take measurements every 1 to 2 metres using this portable system. These waves due to their frequency (50 to 200 MHz) have no affect on the environment (they are similar to FM radio waves)....

Principal Investigator: Evans, Marlene S.
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The Researchers will collect a series of sediment and water samples. These will be analyzed for plant nutrients, concentration of microscopic plant cells, bacteria, suspended solids, dissolved oxygen and organic contaminants. Microscopic animals will also be netted. They will determine the abundance and composition of the animals and conduct experiments to measure their feeding rates and fat cont...

Principal Investigator: Nadji, Kayhan
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The Researcher will continue to investigate the relationship between the architectural and technical aspects of buildings and severe northern climate....

Principal Investigator: Riley, Toni
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The Researchers will assess the needs of heritage staff and volunteers throughout the NWT. Target groups include participants who have attended Northern Heritage Centre workshops and those actively working in the heritage field such as community historical societies, libraries, cultural centres and local museum projects....

Principal Investigator: Gowans, Bill
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The Researcher will use a questionnaire to chart responses from all principals in the N.W.T as to their experiences in pre-arrival, arrival and succession....

Principal Investigator: Clark, Kim
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will conduct interviews with individuals and agencies. Questions will be designed to solicit individual and community definition and prioritization of resources (values-at-risk) endangered by forest fire....

Principal Investigator: Lemmen, Donald
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990
Summary: The Researchers will collect small samples of surficial materials for sedimentological, geochemical and paleoecological analysis. They will map, describe and explain the unconsolidated deposits, landforms, permafrost and organic cover and study patterns of glacial dispersal and drift geochemistry....

Principal Investigator: Graham, Karen
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990
Summary: Ms. Graham and Ms. Haywood will continue to administer the Inquiry Mode Questionnaire of Harrison and Bramson. The investigation will compare thinking styles of nurses in Outpost Health Centres with urban hospital nurses....

Principal Investigator: Little, Lois M.
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researchers will interview students (ages 12 to 18 years) identified by Divisional Boards or local Education Councils/Authorities as at risk of leaving school before completing grade 12 and those students in this age group who have already left school. The study will determine what influences affected their decision to leave school....