NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Cummins, W. Raymond
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990 1989
Summary: Professor Cummins and his team will estimate potential productivity of plants in northern ecosystems and will investigate further the exceptionally high rate of respiration and alternative pathway respiration which they have discovered in arctic plants. They will use nitrate and ammonium electrodes to survey the levels of available nitrogen in wet and dry meadows on Devon...

Principal Investigator: Basinger, James F.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987
Summary: Dr. Basinger and his research team will continue their study on high latitude floras. They will collect high latitude fossil floras which are proving to be critical to their understanding of the origin of northern temperate floras....

Principal Investigator: Bliss, Lawrence
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991 1989 1988
Summary: Mr. Bliss and his research team intend to continue their study in the role of soil algae in high arctic ecosystem development. This year his focus will be directed toward the uptake of carbon, nitrogen and other organics; how the soil algae develop with or without sunlight will be measured also....

Principal Investigator: Wein, Ross
Licensed Year(s): 1989
Summary: Dr. Wein and his assistant will plant jack pine seedlings in the Reid Lake and Sandy Lake area where the dry conditions simulate a drought. They hope to find a species of jack pine which will survive drought conditions in more southern forests....

Principal Investigator: Weis, Michael
Licensed Year(s): 1989 1988
Summary: To carry out this study the researcher will harvest birch stems cut at ground level. The number of stems cut is limited and the survival of genetic individuals and populations is not affected significantly. This project is a continuation of work began in 1988....

Principal Investigator: McCarron, Joe
Licensed Year(s): 1989
Summary: Joe McCarron and his team will map the Eastern Phillips Inlet. They will also be investigating the relationship between insects and plants in the high Arctic....

Principal Investigator: MacDonald, Glen M
Licensed Year(s): 1989 1988
Summary: Dr. Glen MacDonald and his team will be obtaining lake sediment cores, samples of pine needles, cones, seeds and tree-ring cores from 2 sites near Hay River. Fossil pollen from the sediment will be used to document the chronology of pine migration into the NWT following the last ice-age. The study will be used to understand postglacial history of northern plants....

Principal Investigator: Kershaw, Linda J.
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To compile distributional data for plants growing within the Dempster Highway Corridor and to complete a photographic collection of the species present. To complete a pictorial (flora) of the Dempster Highway and to provide information about the ecosystems along the route and the natural history of major physiographic regions. Final report will be a book....

Principal Investigator: Cummins, W. Raymond
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To continue to collecting trips to sample respiration rates, growth rates in arctic plants and to collect plants and seeds....

Principal Investigator: Cody, W.J.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To undertake botanical studies and collect specimens for preservation and cataloguing....