NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Stewart, D. Bruce
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The researchers will be documenting Inuit traditional knowledge of the distribution, abundance and biology of High Arctic beluga and narwhal. This information will be used to identify research and management needs for local and co-management plans. A questionnaire will be used to interview elders and hunters; the interviewer will be a community resident. Information will be compiled into a repo...

Principal Investigator: Cirone, Claire
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To collect tissue samples from Narwhal and Beluga for DNA extraction and cell cultures taken from a hunter kill to obtain a more detailed and completed picture of the DNA complex in Narwhal and Beluga whales....

Principal Investigator: Riewe, R.R.
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To determine the distribution and abundance of narwhal whales and to study their behaviour....

Principal Investigator: Ford, Deborah Cavanaugh
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To make underwater recordings of narwhal sounds and compare these recordings to tapes made in other areas....

Principal Investigator: Kingsley, Michael
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To study ringed seal behaviour; seal biology and aerial survey; Narwhal behaviour and vocalization....

Principal Investigator: McLaren, Peter
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: Aerial surveys of sea mammals and sea birds. This will include surveys of beluga whales, narwhals and dovekies....

Principal Investigator: Silverman, Helen
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: Narwhal study involving behavioural patterns, recoding such things as age, sex, migratory patterns and respiratory patterns. Stomach contents of those narwhals killed by Inuit guides will be collected for future laboratory analysis....

Principal Investigator: Vogl, Wayne
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: Continuation of research on the circulatory system of the narwhal....

Principal Investigator: Cetrone, Gene
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To film a documentary and conduct observations and research on the migration of narwhals....

Principal Investigator: Silverman, Helen
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: Narwhal Project Study involving: study and observations of feeding habits, migratory patterns, movement in relation to ice cover, behavioural observations in fiords and group size and composition, sex, etc. The project will also include a study of Inuit hunting metods and examinationof those narwhals killed by the Inuit. Tape recordings will be made of the sounds emitted by the narwhals....