NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Burn, Chris R
Licensed Year(s): 1990 1987
Summary: The research team will monitor the amount of heave that occurs in lake-bottom sediments during winter, after water freezes to the bottom of lakes, because these environments are the best for examining the hydrology of frost heaving....

Principal Investigator: Anderson, John C.
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To conduct hydrologic studies....

Principal Investigator: Schunke, Ekkehard
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: Collecting observations and measurements of surface forms and surface processess, soils, permafrost, and hydrology....

Principal Investigator: Slaymaker, Olav
Licensed Year(s): 1982
Summary: To survey and interpret any geological changes which might have occurred at the mouth of the Horton River....

Principal Investigator: Mathers, J.S.
Licensed Year(s): 1982
Summary: To continue a hydrologic study of the Mackenzie Delta. Automatic photographic level recorders will be installed at various sites in the Delta....

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: 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: Richardson, W. John
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: Four Basic Objectives: a) To document the normal behaviour patterns of the bowhead whale; b) Determine type and quantity of responses if any, of bowheads to boats and aircraft passing at various distances; c) Determine the type and quantity of responses if any, of bowheads to underwater playbacks of recorded industrial noises; d) Dete...

Principal Investigator: Sims, Richard A. Sims
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To conduct a low level (2000 ft. above groud level) a high level (30,000 ft. A.G.L.) aerial surveys of the reindeer rangeland. Ground truthing will also take place along with collection of plants, soil and water made to complete the study....

Principal Investigator: Goodman, Arni
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: To conduct surveys to determine the conditions of historic land use sites. To conduct water shed surveys, habitat surveys, and to determine the success of last year's bird breeding. The purpose of these surveys is also to determine if the boundaries of the sanctuaries are appropriate for species management purposes....