NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Smith, M.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: To develop an understanding of the heat balance of undisturbed soil and vegetation and develop a computer model which will predict the consequences in the active layer of disturbances of the surface strata for Arctic Land Use Research Program....

Principal Investigator: Hutchinson, Tom
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: To ascertain how crude oil affects terrestrial and aquatic plants, and soil and water micro-organisms, for Arctic Land Use Research Program....

Principal Investigator: MacKay, D.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: To determine how spilled oil behaves and interacts wit the northern environment; how far and how quickly spilled oil will spread on land and in water. To ascertain how low temperatures and snow affect its spread; how deeply oil penetrates into the vegetation, litter or peat and mineral soil layers and what proportion will be lost to evaporation. To provide an indication of the area which would b...

Principal Investigator: Henry, J. David
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: An ecology and behavioral study of the Arctic fox....

Principal Investigator: Wood, D.M.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: A survey of insect species....

Principal Investigator: Dabbs, Donald
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: (1) Seeding of native grasses - Tununuk Point. (2) Effect on vegetation of methyL alcohol spills - Inuvik area. (3) Restoration of tundra vegetation after ditching - Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula. (4) Biodegradation of methyl alcohol - Inuvik area. (5) Use of biodegradable fibre mats for slope stabilization - Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula. (6) Seeding of large disturbed areas at rig sites. (7) Monitoring of...

Principal Investigator: Tull, C.E.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: To conduct a study of songbirds at Chick Lake, ground and aerial surveys east of Fort Simpson and across the Mackenzie Delta, and aerial surveys of snow geese in the outer Mackezie Delta for C.A.G.S.L....

Principal Investigator: Hoek, W.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: A study of the biology of bowhead whales to determine to what extent, if any, animals are stranded as a result of wounding from the Alaskan hunt....

Principal Investigator: Hawley, Vernon D.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: Continuing study of Bluenose Caribou Herd....

Principal Investigator: Rising, J.D.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: Completion of a continent wide study of geographic variation of the savannah sparrow and a general survey of the distribution and abundance of frogs and toads in the Canadian north....