NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Lux, Patricia
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher will conduct a literature search and statistical analysis on information available on attitudes toward abortion. Medical personnel and some community leaders will be interviewed to gain insight into the acceptance of abortion in the north. The researcher will not be contacting or surveying the public....

Principal Investigator: Morris, John B.
Licensed Year(s): 1990 1989
Summary: A radio signal will be transmitted from Yellowknife, to Los Banos, CA, U.S.A. at three selected periods throughout the year. The signal reflects from the ionosphere, and in doing so, experiences distortion. The severity of the distortion must be evaluated at different times of the day as well as different times of the year. This information will predict the utility of high frequency antennas up to...

Principal Investigator: Little, Lois M.
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher will carry out a needs assessment. Interviews will be conducted with 30 employers, organizations and trades women. A small sample of men working in trades will also be interviewed....

Principal Investigator: Liepa, Ingrid
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The researcher will undertake a literature review of interorganizational relations and policy making, public administration and environmental assessment. Individuals in the public service will be interviewed to gather working perspectives on the opportunities for and constraints to various coordinating strategies....

Principal Investigator: Jolly, Anne
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: In accordance with the Communicable Disease Regulations under the Public Health Act, the researcher will review and update the existing database on sexually transmitted diseases in the Northwest Territories....

Principal Investigator: Jacoby, Gordon C.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1989
Summary: The object of this research is to reconstruct past climate in order to understand how the climate system works, and what past natural variations may be expected based upon this information. This project is to sample old-aged trees and to assemble enough coverage to reconstruct regional and Hemispheric temperatures for the most recent centuries....

Principal Investigator: Kary, Alan
Licensed Year(s): 1989
Summary: Mr. Kary will conduct interviews with aboriginal leaders and the Government of the Northwest Territories in order to gather information regarding attitudes toward petroleum resource development....

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: Weller, Geoffrey
Licensed Year(s): 1989
Summary: Geoffrey Weller is part of a group of researchers investigating the process of devolution and its impact on constitutional development in the North. He will be detailing the federal-territorial process of negotiating devolution of health care services with particular attention to the personnel and administrative arrangements....

Principal Investigator: Ramsay, James W.J.H.
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Mr. James Ramsay began preliminary discussions with GNWT Departments of Renewable Resources and Economic Development and Tourism regarding community economic diversification and local management of renewable resources. The resarech is intended to define a mechanism for developing forest management plans based on principles of self-determination, sustainable development and integrated resource mana...