NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Comtois, Paul
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will study the behavior of pollinating insects (bees) in ecosystems dominated by plants of the blueberry family (Ericacees). They will investigate competition between flowering plants syncronized for the same insect pollinators. Most of their work will be conducted on Herschel Island. Minimal study will be conducted near Tuktoyaktuk near their base camp at Polar Continental Shelf Pr...

Principal Investigator: Sandstrom, Steve
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will continue to study the energy composition of and summer habitat utilization by Babbage River Dolly Varden. Fish will be collected by a number of methods, measured, tagged and released. A sub-sample will be dead sampled for sex, maturity and ageing structures as well as a number of dead samples will be frozen on site and transported to Winnipeg for analysis....

Principal Investigator: Cosens, Susan
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher and team will apply new tag technology and DNA analysis to a study of site tenacity and industrial disturbance of bowhead whales. They will test the feasibility of using sonic tags to track bowheads underwater and will be testing sampling methods for collecting skin from live whales for DNA analysis....

Principal Investigator: Pearce, Cheryl M.
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991 1990
Summary: The Researcher will examine what distinguishes arctic surfaces spatially and spectrally and which surfaces can be detected and identified by sensors on orbiting satellites, and will test the hypothesis that orbiting satellites can be used to detect and monitor thaw slumps, coastal erosion and other physical and biological manifestations of environmental change in the arctic....

Principal Investigator: Scotter, George
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher and team will carry out this survey at the request of the community of Paulatuk. They will summarize the existing knowledge of the natural resources of the Bluenose Lake Region. A total of about 20 stops will be made to examine the vegetation, soil, wildlife and physiogeography and to collect plant and soil samples....

Principal Investigator: Harmsen, R.
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990
Summary: The Researcher and his team will collect data on plant size, flowering, seed production, survival and for greenhouse germination experiments. Wire enclosures set up in the previous summer will be remapped....

Principal Investigator: Vardy, Catherine
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher will survey growth forms at two sites: one highly disturbed (i.e. a roadside) and one undisturbed site ( i.e. a field). The plants will be measured and a shoot removed from approximately 20-100 plants. Seeds will be collected....

Principal Investigator: Sandstrom, Steve
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Fieldwork will involve removing fish from selected pools by a number of methods including electroshocking, seine and angling. They will be anaesthetized, weighed, measured and tagged. The researcher estimates that no more than 5% of the total catch will be dead sampled....

Principal Investigator: Eggertsson, Olafur
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher will sample about 100-200 driftwood logs using a chain-saw to cut off a 1-2 cm plate about 0.5 m inside the end of each log. The material will be shipped to Lund University laboratory for examination....

Principal Investigator: Dickson, H. Loney
Licensed Year(s): 1989 1987
Summary: Mr. Dickson will clean up sites examined in 1985 and 1987 and will check semi palmated plover nests on drill pads in the Kendall Sanctuary....