NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator:
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To conduct a survey of the vegetation in the Mackenzie Delta and relate the different types of vegetation to the seasonal flood levels....

Principal Investigator:
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To conduct a study to see how recreation programs are delivered to the community level. to achieve tis, municipal files will be examined, general interviews will be conducted and recreational activities will be observed in the communities....

Principal Investigator:
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To document the number, distribution and movements of bowhead whales within the study area (please see attached map). Aerial surveys with Twin Otter and Islander aircraft will be used....

Principal Investigator:
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: As part of a species management programto conduct population counts of bowhead whale calves....

Principal Investigator:
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:
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: Life history study of the grasses Phippsia algida and Puccinellia vaginata. To compare plant growth forms of these two grasses in low and high Arctic conditions....

Principal Investigator:
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To continue a study of the effects of acid fumes (Smoking Hills) on land and water vegetation. Soil samples will be collected for future lab analysis. Oil spill sites will also be revisited and monitored....

Principal Investigator:
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: As part of a Ph.d. program to undertake a study of the nature of permafrost and ground ice conditions. Specific field operations will consist of an examination of coastal cliff rock sections. Samples will be collected for further study and analysis....

Principal Investigator:
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To supervise 2 graduate degree programs and 1 undergraduate student. To undertake the following personally; 1) To study coastal erosion processes - East and West of Sachs Harbour. 2) To collect beach samples - Cape Kellett. 3) Terrain disturbance studies associated with well-site clean-up....

Principal Investigator:
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To undertake a study of the genetics and ecology of very small organisms in freshwater lakes and rivers. The organisms (zooplankton) will be sampled and catalogued for identification purposes....