NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Gregor, Dennis J.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1991 1990
Summary: Snow samples will be collected from approximately 30 sites across the NWT and Yukon in the spring of the year. This annual snow pack sample will allow an estimate of the quantity of organic contaminants that have been deposited over the winter season. To better understand the fate of these contaminants in the High Arctic, the researchers will undertake an intensive small basin study on Cornwallis ...

Principal Investigator: Kuhnlein, Harriet V
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: In response to an earlier study that was requested by the Dene Nation on contaminants in loche and whitefish, Health and Welfare Canada and other agencies are sponsoring this study to find out what amounts of contaminants people are eating. Dr. Harriet Kuhnlein and assistants will be asking people what foods they eat and how much. Renewable Resource officers will collect samples of wild foods fo...

Principal Investigator: Vigers, Gary
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To determine acute and sublethal effects of oil (natural seeps) and refinery effluent on fish in the Mackenzie River at Norman Wells. Sublethal effects will include bioaccumulation and tainting. In situ fish cages and laboratory bioassays will be utilized....

Principal Investigator: Smith, Geoffrey
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To determine extent of radioactive contamination of abandoned mines at Rayrock and Port Radium....

Principal Investigator: Kershaw, G. Peter
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: To determine the chemical composition of the oil at a large spill and ascertain if the oil spilled 36 years ago is biodegradable....

Principal Investigator: Smith, Daniel W.
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: To sample treated and untreated domestic water supplies for physical and chemical analysis, (e.g. turbidity, color, temperature and trace elements analysis, e.g. lead, zinc, silver and cadmium)....

Principal Investigator: Kershaw, G. Peter
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: To evaluate the impacts of the Canol Project (1942-45) upon the topography and plant communities and to determine the natural rehabilitation of disturbed sites....

Principal Investigator: Harding,, Lee
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To collect samples of soil, water, sediments and mammal tissue to determine the residual levels of herbicides and the possible presence of the chemical dioxin....

Principal Investigator: Kershaw, G. Peter
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To evaluate the impacts of the Canol Project (1942-45) upon the topography and the plant communities and to determine the rehabilitation of disturbed sites....

Principal Investigator: Hutchinson, Tom
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To determine the degree of recovery of crude oil spills made in 1972 and 1973 on taiga at Norman Wells and tundra at Tuktoyaktuk. To determine the effects of a 1975 diesel oil spill on taiga at Norman Wells and to compare the effects with crude oil spills made in comparable terrain. To examine the pattern of vegetational recovery of these areas. To examine the effects of crude oil spills made o...