NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Osawa, Akira
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: The researcher will conduct research on jack pine forests along the highways in Wood Buffalo National Park and will also collect stem increment cores from black spruce trees around the latitudinal tree line near Inuvik. This research will consist of remeasurement of permanent plots, foliage distribution and light measurement, establishment of pruning experiment and stem core sampling near Inuvik....

Principal Investigator: Gal, Ruth Ann
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992
Summary: As a result of global warming (which results from increased amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere), it is suggested that the number of forest fires and the amount of area burned may increase in the northern boreal forests. The types of trees that grow first in these burned areas may be different from those that would have grown in if the climate was cooler. I will collect data at burn site...

Principal Investigator: Osawa, Akira
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1987
Summary: The Researcher will measure stem diameter and height of individual trees representing ages five to sixty years. Approximately 15 small individual jack pines will be cut to estimate dry weights and measurements of light conditions in various jack pine stands will be undertaken....

Principal Investigator: Abele, Francis
Licensed Year(s): 1989
Summary: Dr. Francis Abele is studying the transfer of government responsibilities from the federal to territorial government. She is studying the transfer of fire fighting and forestry management. Her main questions are: Did the transfer lead to better services f...

Principal Investigator: Simpson, Lloyd G.
Licensed Year(s): 1988 1987
Summary: Dr. Simpson and his crew will be travelling along the NWT highway system measuring trees and shrubs in the forest. This information will be used to estimate the amount of living material in the boreal forest....

Principal Investigator: Wright, Robert A.
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: to describe the differences in seedling drought resistance between jack pine populations from the geographic and environmental extremes of the range...

Principal Investigator: Suzuki, T..
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To measure a number of sample forest plots in detail to assemble a body of data with which to test a computer simulation model of the growth and development of tree stands....

Principal Investigator: Kershaw, K.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: To determine how plant communities in the northern boreal forest respond to burning or to protection from burning, their rate of recovery and the factors governing the recovery process, for Arctic Land Use Research Program....