NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Schunke, Ekkehard
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: To conduct a study of land forms, valley formations and slopes relating to the periglacial environment....

Principal Investigator: Hirst, S.M.
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: To put in place a series of automatic water level recorders (14 recorders in 8 locations) as part of assessing possible downstream environmental impacts as a result of proposed hydro- electric developments on the Liard River....

Principal Investigator: Ward, John
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: Aboard the ice-breaker "Kigoriak" experiments will be conducted on the levels and types of noise produced by the ship as it participates in the normal operational program. Very small explosives charges will be used (detonator caps) as part of the work....

Principal Investigator: Worsley, Peter
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: To conduct a general study of land forms, geological and glacial processes, a study of the soils and sedimentation process in the rivers. Samples of soil, molluscs and vegetation will also be collected for future lab analysis....

Principal Investigator: Taylor, John S.
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: To total of 18 lakes will be studied and sampled to determine the importance of lake type to various fish populations. Fish will be sampled using weirs, gill nets, seines, fyke nets, minnow traps and trawl nets....

Principal Investigator: Terroux, A.C.D.
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: (1) Ice thickness determination - Mackenzie Delta Channels - April 1981. (2) Aerial photography of ice break- up - along Mackenzie River - May/June 1981. (3) Monitoring of Mackenzie Delta Lake Process (break-up, etc.) using time lapsed photography - April - November 1981. (4) Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway Hydrology Study (water distribution, etc.) April/November 1981 (aerial surveys)....

Principal Investigator: Ritchie, J.C.
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: (a) To collect a series of lake sediments; (b) To collect selected plant groups and conduct vegetation analysis....

Principal Investigator: Hutchinson, Tom
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To continue a study of the effects of acid fumes (Smoking Hills) on land and water vegetation. Soil samples will be collected for future lab analysis. Oil spill sites will also be revisited and monitored....

Principal Investigator: Harry, David
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: As part of a Ph.d. program to undertake a study of the nature of permafrost and ground ice conditions. Specific field operations will consist of an examination of coastal cliff rock sections. Samples will be collected for further study and analysis....

Principal Investigator: French, Hugh
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To supervise 2 graduate degree programs and 1 undergraduate student. To undertake the following personally; 1) To study coastal erosion processes - East and West of Sachs Harbour. 2) To collect beach samples - Cape Kellett. 3) Terrain disturbance studies associated with well-site clean-up....