NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Holmes, R. Max
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
Summary: The Arctic Great Rivers Observatory project studies the six largest rivers in the Arctic; the Mackenzie and Yukon Rivers in North America and the Ob', Yenisey, Lena, and Kolyma Rivers in Russia. The research team is interested in how climate change is impacting Arctic rivers. The research team will make measurements of the concentration of naturally-occurring chemicals (like carbon and nitrogen)...

Principal Investigator: Alexander, Martin E.
Licensed Year(s): 2000 1999 1998 1997
Summary: With the assistance of NWT Dept. of Renewable Resources fire management personnel, a study site was located approximately 50 km north of Fort Providence. A dense jack pine stand occupies the site. Surrounded by marshland, this site is ideally suited to supporting the high-intensity crown fires required in this study. Ten burning plots were located in this site. Firelines approximately 50 m wide w...

Principal Investigator: Vick, Ann
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researchers will identify and share exemplary programs and processes in circumpolar education. They will investigate the design and results of the research program established to assess the effectiveness of the Piniaqtavut program (developing instructional programs which use community knowledge). They will also explore how the Baffin Divisional Board may be able to utilize other circumpolar re...

Principal Investigator: Boyko, Vladimir
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: These researchers will carry out a part of the program of cooperation between Canada and the USSR on the economic and socio-cultural development of the native peoples of the North. They will conduct a cross-cultural and cross-societal analysis using questionnaires, observation, interviews, participation and discussion....

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...

Principal Investigator: Lamson, Cynthia
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To undertake a regional ocean management study of the Baffin Bay/Davis Strait region, concentrating on Canadian/Greenland relations and joint resource management options....