NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Schuller, Paul
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: The researchers will provide survey questionnaires to Principals of elementary schools to distribute to appropriate classrooms. The classroom teacher will conduct the survey with the class and then return the completed forms to the Principal for return to the investigator. Approximate time to complete the questionnaire is 30 minutes....

Principal Investigator: Wall, Denis
Licensed Year(s): 1995
Summary: The survey will collect data from students, administrators, teachers, Board members, and other school-based staff. Pilot surveys will be undertaken to test the surveys and to identify necessary changes. A randomly selected group of 30 principals will be asked to collect data on incidents of interpersonal conflict in which they have to intervene. No names will be attached to surveys or descripti...

Principal Investigator: Notzke, Claudia
Licensed Year(s): 1995
Summary: The researcher will administer a questionnaire to visitors in the campground, in hotels and on tours; interview federal and territorial government officials, members of the Joint Secretariat and Renewable Resource Committees; and individuals active in the tourism industry. The researcher will also sample one or two day trips out of Inuvik (as a "participant observer"), and visit Tuktoyaktuk to lo...

Principal Investigator: Hart, Elisa J.
Licensed Year(s): 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991
Summary: The researchers will complete the last steps of a research project that began in 1991. This will include reading over compiled information with elders for verification; flying along the coastline with elders to help verify locations of places that there is some confusion over and record their coordinates with a GPS; and setting down at sites that elders suggest to talk a bit more about the histor...

Principal Investigator: Zarowny, Sister Mary
Licensed Year(s): 1995
Summary: Local church personnel or volunteers will invite those who wish to participate in evening or weekend sessions to discuss their realities and answer a number of open ended questions. Local followup may result from these sessions. Summaries of sessions will be forwarded to the coordinator and used for development of further reflection processes and pastoral strategies....

Principal Investigator: Mackay, J. Ross
Licensed Year(s): 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1989
Summary: This permafrost study has been part of a long-term study first initiated in 1951. The researcher will collect data that will allow a better understanding of the growth of the ice wedges, pingos and permafrost....

Principal Investigator: Krawll, Marcia
Licensed Year(s): 1995
Summary: The reseracher, in collaboration with participating community staff from six Aboriginal communities/regions, will gather information through the use of open-ended questionaire, interview guides, and a program checklist. Interviews with Aboriginal seniors, their families, care-givers and community leaders, both individually and in focus groups, will be conducted....

Principal Investigator: Freeman, Milton M.R.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992
Summary: The research team will carry out interviews with the Inuvialuit that are knowledgable about broad whitefish and its fishery in the local waters. Data to be obtained include information on the traditional fishery, changes to this fishery, knowledge about the breeding and feeding habits, migrations, parasites and diseases, and effects of the local environmental changes on whitefish....

Principal Investigator: Good, Ron
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1993 1992 1992 1991
Summary: The researcher will conduct a geotechnical survey of the area. Components of this survey will include shallow geological drilling, geophysical downholde logging, geophysical electrical sounding and a snow depth transect. A crew will transverse the area by foot and skidoo....

Principal Investigator: Takeno, Atsushi
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: The research will consist of video-taping mirages in the arctic. In addition, interviews with community residents will be performed in order to examine the ways in which indigenous people have regarded the phenomenon of mirages. This research will result in the production of a film which discusses both the cultural and scientific aspects of mirages....