14 record(s) found with the tag "human adaptation" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Weber-Malakhov North Pole Round Trip Expedition 1992
Principal Investigator: Weber, Richard
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The Expedition members will ski to the North Pole carrying supplies in backpacks and sleds. Having reached the Pole they will retrace their steps back to Ward Hunt Island. They will collect data (snow and blood samples; fitness levels; sleep activity; stress levels) for several scientists during their trip....


Canada/USSR Transarctic Skitrek
Principal Investigator: Rode, Andris
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: to study human adaptation to prolonged hard work under extreme environmental conditions; to stimulate public interest in fitness and sport; to study geomagnetic and other physical phenomena; to develop closer scientific and cultural cooperation between Canada and the USSR...


Canada '88-Terra di Ellesmere
Principal Investigator: Giardini, Franco
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: To study distribution and adaptive features of aquatic molluscs of the extreme Canadian Arctic; to determine variations of intraocular pressure in relation to normal circadian rhythmns and physical fatigue; to collect mosses and lichens for the University of Turin...


Licence #4013
Principal Investigator: Jummpanen, Pauli
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: 1. Collection of snow samples to find about the spreading of air pollution. 2. Making observations of ice formations and pressure ridges. 3. Observations of clothing for cold air conditions being used by members of the expedition. 4. Behaviour and capacity of man in arctic conditions....


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