NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Diamond, Miriam
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To conduct a study on Redpolls (a small seed eating Finch) by examining the reproductive biology of early and late breeders....

Principal Investigator: Ring, Richard A.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To observe and study the habitat of Arctic insects and to collect samples to compare their resistance to cold with that of similar species in the south....

Principal Investigator: Reed, Jonathan R.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: Continuation of observation of the Lesser Sandhill Crane....

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...