NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Hollinshead, G.W.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To conduct a study of the rates of sedimentaiton in the Liard and Mackenzie rivers. The sedimentation rate will be corelated to the types of vegetation in the study areas....

Principal Investigator: Nieminen, G.A.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To undertake environmental field studies relating tothe environmental assessment of a mine/mill development and a winterd access road. The studies will include fisheries studies, vegetation identification, soil sampling, and wildlife habitat assessment....

Principal Investigator: Bain, John F.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To undertake a field study of a family of annual, biennial or perennial herbs (SENECIO Sp) as part of a program towards a Ph.d. degree. Collections of these plants will be made and retained for further laboratory analysis, cataloguing and classification....

Principal Investigator: Bohn, Arne
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To conduct an assessment of the impacts of new mining and water discharge. The studies will include: - updating information on soil types and vegetation. - updating information on wildlife habitat. - updating information on water quality and fish habitat. - examining background levels of trace metals associated with Pine Point Mining activity....

Principal Investigator: Pilling, Miss E.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: Botanical photography; a systematic comparison of plants in Iceland and Arctic Europe....

Principal Investigator: Kershaw, K.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To examine the growth and ecology of Stereocaulon paschale and its importance as fodder in caribou winter range....

Principal Investigator: Gill, D.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: Deltaic geomorphology and fluvial environments will be mapped and studied, sedimentation studies will be done and samples taken for laboratory analysis. Vegetation will be mapped and categorized as to terrestrial, wetland and aquatic. Small mammal trapping, to determine species composition and their use of various vegetation types. Similar field observations will be made on the habitats of delt...

Principal Investigator: Bohn, Arne
Licensed Year(s): 1976
Summary: 1) To sample and describe soils and vegetation at selected sites for heavy metals analysis. 2) To assess the effect of mining activity on wildlife habitat at selected sites. 3) To review the water quality monitoring program covering local streams....

Principal Investigator: Gaudet, Louis-Phillippe
Licensed Year(s): 1976
Summary: 1) Collection of small mammal skeletons, 2) Collection of samples of dirt, plants, leaves, and roots, 3) Photograph fauna and flora, 4) Produce a film, 5) Write a book about the trip....

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....