27 record(s) found in the location "Inuvialuit Settlement Region" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Biopsy Darting of Beluga Whale Carcasses
Principal Investigator: Patenaude, Nathalie
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher will use a crossbow to fire an arrow with a stainless steel biopsy tip into landed beluga whales. Different tip designs will be tested to evaluate biopsy tip length and diameter required for effective sample retrieval, strength of bow string, and effective distance. Tissue surrounding the sample site will also be tested for tissue damage, and wounds will be photographed after each...


Licence #5123
Principal Investigator: Norton, Pamela
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To monitor the white whale migration to and distribution and abundance in the Mackenzie Estuary. Secondary objectives are to observe white whale behaviour, to record whale-vessel interactions (if possible) and to quantify the number of whales missed by observers under normal survey conditions. All marine mammal sightings will be recorded....


Licence #4113
Principal Investigator: Norton, Pamela
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To examine white whale use of offshore areas during and after the period of "peak" numbers; to document whale distribution and abundance; to record movements and feeding; to determine percent calves in the population and to compare white whale distribution with major oceanographic features depicted in satellite imagery and with industrial activities....


Licence #2784
Principal Investigator: Fraker, P.N.
Licensed Year(s): 1982
Summary: To continue monitoring of the white whale herd, its population, distribution, migration patterns and behaviour. To relate hunter harvest to these criteria. To determine potential interference of resource development activities on hunter success....


Licence #2681
Principal Investigator: Fraker, Pam
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: To monitor the size of the white whale harvest and collect information on the white whale herd....


Licence #2192
Principal Investigator: Webb, R.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To conduct a white whale count....


Licence #1751
Principal Investigator: Vogl, Wayne
Licensed Year(s): 1974
Summary: Comparative study of the circulatory systems of beluga from the Mackenzie Delta And narwhal from the Pond Inlet area....


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