NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Clark, Karin
Licensed Year(s): 2003
Summary: The objectives of the research are to get a better understanding of how caribou foraged plant species might be responding to climate. This information may be used to make predictions of how plants might adapt to a warmer climate and in turn how this mig...

Principal Investigator: Tyson, J. David
Licensed Year(s): 1999
Summary: The objectives of this project are to: 1. determine the presence of fishes in selected waterbodies on the BHP Diamonds claim block, 2. determine the extent of utilization of streams by fishes as migration routes, and 3. inventory the quantity and quality of fish habitat in waterbodies supporting fishes. The potential species involved in this monitoring program are Arctic grayling, burbot, lake tr...

Principal Investigator: Couture, Richard
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The researchers of Rescan have been contracted by B.H.P. Minerals Canada Ltd. to conduct an assessment of the types of fish and other aquatic organisms that are found in the Lac de Gras area. Tissue samples will be collected in order to assess heavy metal contaminants in fish. An environmental report will be submitted to the Territorial Government on the results of this study....

Principal Investigator: Maffey, Murray
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992
Summary: This ongoing project has several activities associated with the study of fire ecology in the N.W.T.. The researchers are involved with the collection of data at a prescribed burn site located at Little Rat Lake (Hook Lake) near Ft. Resolution. They are also participating in the fire history study in the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary. Finally, crew leaders from the Ft. Simpson initial attack teams w...

Principal Investigator: Waterway, Marcia J.
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher and her team will sample approximately twenty different species of sedges in a range of wetlands between Edmonton and Yellowknife. They will find out the range of conditions in which each species grows best and will determine whether broad tolerance results from inherited variability or from the ability of individuals of each species to tolerate different conditions....

Principal Investigator: Stollman, Jeff
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To monitor certain ecological conditions along the route paying particular attention to pollution during the canoe trip....

Principal Investigator: Millar, J.S.
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: To conduct ecological studies on small mammals and to trap (live) some for further study at the University of Western Ontario....

Principal Investigator: Viren, Tom
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: To monitor certain ecological conditions along the route paying particular attention to pollutants during the canoe trip....

Principal Investigator: Millar, J.S.
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To conduct ecological studies on small mammals and to study differences in their activity levels....