NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Davis, Rolph A.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: Aerial and ground surveys of birds and mammals, and studies of the marine ecosystem....

Principal Investigator: Wilkinson, Paul
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To determine the suitability of an area for possible National Park....

Principal Investigator: England, Ray
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To conduct a comprehensive land and resource study to determine areas wher exploration and development may take place and establish specific conditions for environmental protection....

Principal Investigator: Hutchinson, Tom
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To determine the degree of recovery of crude oil spills made in 1972 and 1973 on taiga at Norman Wells and tundra at Tuktoyaktuk. To determine the effects of a 1975 diesel oil spill on taiga at Norman Wells and to compare the effects with crude oil spills made in comparable terrain. To examine the pattern of vegetational recovery of these areas. To examine the effects of crude oil spills made o...

Principal Investigator: Hutchinson, Tom
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To develop a practical and economic method of revegetation of "difficult" tailings and mine sites in the N.W.T., using acid and metal tolerant vegetation growing naturally at the highly stressed Smoking Hills area of Cape Bathurst, N.W.T....

Principal Investigator: Fyfe, R.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: Raptor Research Program: to check previously known nest sites and determine occupancy of breeding pairs, egg production and breeding success. Survey new areas for species determination. Radio telemetry study on peregrine falcons to determine the hunting range of adults....

Principal Investigator: Thomas, Don
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To collect data on late winter habitats and diets of carioub on the Boothia Peninsula for pipeline assessments; to determine how long productivity rates can remain at low levels on Melville and Prince Patrick Islands; to examine growth indices of arctic willow and their relationship to past productivity of caribou; to make management of insular and near insular populations of caribou easier and mo...

Principal Investigator: Sherstone, David A.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To acquire aerial photography of hydrologic characteristics of ice break-up and movement in the Mackenzie and lower Liard Rivers. To acquire photography of river break-up and environmentally sensitive areas along the proposed Arctic Islands pipeline route from Churchill to Spence Bay. To acquire photography of specific glaciology research sites throughout the Arctic Islands (with emphasis on the...

Principal Investigator: Wankiewicz, Anthony
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To study permafrost near Arctic streams at sites near Inuvik and several locations in the Keewatin. This study is to provide baseline information on coupled heat-transfer processes relevant to cold gas pipeline stream crossings. The ground temperature will be monitored at stream cross sections at the different sites....

Principal Investigator: Hunter, J.A.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To conduct geophysical measurements to determine the presence and extent of sub-seabottom permafrost at selected sites in the Mackenzie Delta area and the Beaufort Sea. The survey will consist of temperature, density, porosity and acoustic measurements of sea bed materials....