NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Christophers, Sandy
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The NWT Council for Disabled Persons will contact NWT Women's Groups and community representatives to develop contact lists for women with disabilities. In addition, the Council will develop and distribute a survey that helps to identify issues and concerns for women with disabilities. These issues will be summarized and recommendations will be made in light of these issues....

Principal Investigator: Palacios, Carolina
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991 1990
Summary: In its final year of research, information will be collected concerning how, where and why injuries happen in the N.W.T.. This research will aid the present health system in targeting specific concerns and improving intervention programs....

Principal Investigator: Suedfeld, Peter
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: In its 5th phase of research, the Polar Psychology Project will involve interviewing and surveying scientists, students, and assistants working in the 2 circumpolar areas. The goal is to gain a better understanding of psychological and psychophysiological processes that affect people working on a time-limited basis in the 2 circumpolar areas, as well as to develop improved procedures for enhancin...

Principal Investigator: Cohen, Stewart
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992
Summary: The Mackenzie Basin Impact Study will assess the potential impacts of global climatic change on the region. The component on land assessment will determine possible changes in land capability. Information on resource management goals is needed so that the study can can assess whether changes in land capability might lead to conflicts over land use....

Principal Investigator: Crease, Teresa
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher and her team will collect Daphnia pulex (water flea) samples and maintain them in culture to obtain sufficient material for genetic analysis....

Principal Investigator: Pearce, Cheryl M.
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991 1990
Summary: The researcher will complete the intensive sampling of the Arctic Coastal Plain west of Shallow Bay on the Mackenzie River Delta to the Alaska border, where tundra surfaces could differ from those east of the Mackenzie Delta, high arctic tundra on northern Cape Bathurst, and additional treeline sites between Inuvik and the Horton River....

Principal Investigator: Slocombe, D. Scott
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The researcher and his team will compare conservation and development planning methods and processes in several resource-based regions of the world to assess to what extent such processes take into account environmental and ecosystem problems and needs....

Principal Investigator: Notzke, Claudia
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The Researcher will collect information for a book on aboriginal natural resource management in Canada. The focus of the work will be concentrated with wildlife co-management, native participation in the design, use and management of new national park reserves and the question of how the settlement of claims ties in with current land use planning practices....

Principal Investigator: Downie, Bruce K.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: Begun in 1991, the researcher and his associates will continue to prepare a management plan for the Pingos Canadian Landmark....

Principal Investigator: Landhaeusser, Simon M.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1990
Summary: To determine the maximum size of treeline tree species in a burned and unburned valley in the Caribou Hills, the mass of standing trees on different slopes and aspects will be estimated and related to the energy input. In 1992 the plots prepared in 1990 and planted and seeded in 1991, will be revisited and measurement of growth for the second growing season will be taken....