NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Couture, Richard
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The researchers of Rescan have been contracted by B.H.P. Minerals Canada Ltd. to conduct an assessment of the types of fish and other aquatic organisms that are found in the Lac de Gras area. Tissue samples will be collected in order to assess heavy metal contaminants in fish. An environmental report will be submitted to the Territorial Government on the results of this study....

Principal Investigator: Couture, Richard
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The researchers of Rescan have been contracted by B.H.P. Minerals Canada Ltd. to conduct an assessment of the types of fish and other aquatic organisms that are found in the Spyder Lake area. Tissue samples will be collected in order to assess heavy metal contaminants in fish. An environmental report will be submitted to the Territorial Government on the results of this study....

Principal Investigator: Green, John M.
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1990 1988
Summary: As part of a long-term study, I will continue to make underwater observations of the benthic fishes found in the shallow waters of Resolute Bay. Some fish will be collected for further laboratory studies in order to examine their food habits, growth rates and population growth rates. The species Gymnelus viridis will be studied in greater detail....

Principal Investigator: Vincent, W.F.
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: This season we hope to collect water samples that contain small, single-celled organisms from lakes, ponds and streams on Bylot Island. A new technique using microscopes has increased the scientist's ability to detect life forms that were previously not known to exist. We will examine the water samples using this new technique to determine the type of microscopic organisms that form the basis of...

Principal Investigator: Gandia, Ruben
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: Clean and contaminated sediments, effluent and liquid municipal waste, and selected species of amphipods will be collected by government and non-government researchers as other field research is conducted. All collections will be shipped to the Beak laboratory for analyses. Testing will involve a measurement of the contaminants in the sediments as well as measuring the degree of toxicity that th...

Principal Investigator: Graham, Mark S
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher and his team will use several species of planktonic and benthic invertebrates from Lancaster Sound region to evaluate the metabolic cost of making a living in the Arctic. Oxygen consumption techniques will be used as a metabolic indicy. Trophic status of specimens will be evaluated later by stable isotope analysis....

Principal Investigator: Welch, Harold
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991 1990 1988 1987
Summary: The researcher and his team will quantify benthic invertebrates such as snails and clams, monitor phytoplankton, nutrients, and zooplankton, sample Char Lake fauna and flora for stable isotope and heavy metal analysis, and study schools of arctic cod and associated predators....

Principal Investigator: Conlan, Kathleen E.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992
Summary: The researcher and her team will document the intensity of ice scouring by side scan sonar, develop a method for aging ice scour tracks, and study the dynamics of species interactions following ice scour events....

Principal Investigator: Couture, Richard
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researchers will conduct a sampling program to describe the current state of the fisheries resources in the Rio Fido - Frayed Knots River drainage....

Principal Investigator: Nakayama, Tsunesuke
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: Staff from the Tokyo Sea Life Park will collect fish and invertebrates to transport to Japan. Divers will collect benthic fishes, fishes living near the bottom and invertebrates. Other methods of collection will involve, hand net, bait trap, and hook and line. Approximately 90 fishes and 100 invertebrates of different species will be included in the sampling....