NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Wein, Ross
Licensed Year(s): 1989
Summary: Dr. Wein and his assistant will plant jack pine seedlings in the Reid Lake and Sandy Lake area where the dry conditions simulate a drought. They hope to find a species of jack pine which will survive drought conditions in more southern forests....

Principal Investigator: Berkes, Fikret
Licensed Year(s): 1989
Summary: Mr. Berkes will be assisting the Dene Cultural Institute in a pilot project on Dene Traditional Knowledge. They will be talking to the Dene in the Fort Smith region to learn of the role of the hunters, their traditional ways of hunting and preserving the...

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: Hachey, Gene O.E.
Licensed Year(s): 1989
Summary: Mr. Gene Hachey and the NWT Farmers Association will be conducting research to enhance the knowledge base concerning horticultural production methods. Farmers from Fort Smith, Fort Simpson and Hay River will make sites available on their holdings to allow for evaluation of vegetable and berry varieties, production methods and associated testing....

Principal Investigator: MacDonald, Glen M
Licensed Year(s): 1989 1988
Summary: Dr. Glen MacDonald and his team will be obtaining lake sediment cores, samples of pine needles, cones, seeds and tree-ring cores from 2 sites near Hay River. Fossil pollen from the sediment will be used to document the chronology of pine migration into the NWT following the last ice-age. The study will be used to understand postglacial history of northern plants....

Principal Investigator: Tourangeau, Isodore
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Mr. Tourangeau will be interviewing a residents about their views of community development. Each interview will consist of about 50 questions to find out what community needs are and what is being done about them. This information will be returned to the community councils for their use. The Department of Municipal and Community Affairs will use the work to improve their programs that relate to...

Principal Investigator: MacLean, Lynne
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Lynne MacLean will be interviewing women and mental health workers about depression and how to overcome it. All interviews will be confidential. She wants to know whether the experience and effects of depression are different between Chipewyan and white women. She also will ask mental health workers what types of difficulties they experience when dealing with depression in native versus non-nat...

Principal Investigator: Little, Lois M.
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: The Dene Nation asked the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs to conduct a survey about fish caught in the Mackenzie Valley. Lutra Assoc. will be training someone in each community to ask questions like this: How many fish are not normal and why? Where are these caught? How much fish are people eating? Is this changing because more abnormal fish are being caught? What would happen if pe...

Principal Investigator: Cunningham, Jim
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Jim Cunningham will be interviewing community leaders in the communties that he is visiting. He will ask questions about the development of local government in their community and their region as well as what they want in regards to delivery of services. He is using this information to write a Master's thesis....

Principal Investigator: Kelly, Robert
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Robert Kelly and two fellow students will be interviewing owners and managers of 10-15 sport fishing lodges on Great Bear and Great Slave Lakes to compare the type of ownership with its impact on the local and regional economies....