NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Luch, Stephen R.
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To conduct a broad study of the biological and physical components of pingos....

Principal Investigator: Ring, Richard A.
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To observe and study the habitat of Arctic insects and to collect specimens to compare their resistance to cold with that of similar species in the south....

Principal Investigator: Worbets, Barry W.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To conduct a study to identify the effects of industry on Tuktoyaktuk as perceived by the community and as identified by literature on previous studies, and to provide alternatives to the community in order to deal with these effects. A final report will be submitted to the community of Tuktoyaktuk in December of this year....

Principal Investigator: Ring, Richard A.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To observe and study the habitat of Arctic insects and to collect samples to compare their resistance to cold with that of similar species in the south....

Principal Investigator: England, Ray
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To conduct a comprehensive land and resource study to determine areas wher exploration and development may take place and establish specific conditions for environmental protection....

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...

Principal Investigator: Hutchinson, Tom
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To develop a practical and economic method of revegetation of "difficult" tailings and mine sites in the N.W.T., using acid and metal tolerant vegetation growing naturally at the highly stressed Smoking Hills area of Cape Bathurst, N.W.T....

Principal Investigator: Sherstone, David A.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To acquire aerial photography of hydrologic characteristics of ice break-up and movement in the Mackenzie and lower Liard Rivers. To acquire photography of river break-up and environmentally sensitive areas along the proposed Arctic Islands pipeline route from Churchill to Spence Bay. To acquire photography of specific glaciology research sites throughout the Arctic Islands (with emphasis on the...

Principal Investigator: Wankiewicz, Anthony
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To study permafrost near Arctic streams at sites near Inuvik and several locations in the Keewatin. This study is to provide baseline information on coupled heat-transfer processes relevant to cold gas pipeline stream crossings. The ground temperature will be monitored at stream cross sections at the different sites....

Principal Investigator: McLean, D. M.
Licensed Year(s): 1976
Summary: 1) To define the prevalence of arboviruses pathogenic for man, especially California encephalitis virus, 2) to determine quantitive relationships between the incidence of arboviral infection in mosquito larvae, adult mosquitoes and vertebrate reservoirs of arboviral virus....