Principal Investigator:Gantner, Nikolaus (Klaus) Licensed Year(s):2013
2012
2011 Summary:
The long term goals of this research are:
1. to identify and quantify the physical, chemical and ecological processes that affect contaminant transfer in Arctic aquatic food webs in response to observed and predicted climate variability & change in the Husky Lakes Watershed (HLW); and
2. to provide people and regulators of Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk with tools to effectively monitor selected highly...
Principal Investigator:Romano, Tracy Licensed Year(s):
1993
Summary:
This research will examine the nervous (i.e., brain) and immune systems of beluga by collecting these tissues from harvested animals for laboratory analyses. This study will help to determine how contaminants affect the health of belugas. In addition, the data collected may lead to a better understanding of why whales strand themselves on the shoreline as it has been suggested that beached whale...
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....