NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Katz, Sharon
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: The objectives of this study are: (a) To determine whether brominated flame retardants (BFRs), current use pesticides (CUPs), perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), and mercury bioaccumulate using the vegetation-caribou-wolf food chain and the Bathurst caribou herd as a model; (b) To explore possible sources of lead contamination in the Bathurst herd caribou; (c) To elucidate the pathway of lead uptake ...

Principal Investigator: Hermanson, Mark
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992 1990
Summary: Fish (most likely Arctic charr) will be obtained either by purchase or by individual collection to analyze for chlorinated organic industrial compounds, pesticides and mercury. Few of these contaminants were ever used in the Arctic. They have been shown to travel to the Arctic through the atmosphere and accumulate in lake sediments and in fish tissues. An attempt will be made to relate the level o...

Principal Investigator: Karasiuk, Donald
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: (1) To conduct an inventory of tern and gull colonies: up to 20 herring gull eggs will be collected for pesticide analysis - North Arm of Great Slave Lake. (2) To conduct investigations into the concentrations of arsenic and heavy metals in ducks - Yellowknife area. (3) To conduct annual breeding bird census programs - Yellowknife area....

Principal Investigator: Ronald, K.
Licensed Year(s): 1976
Summary: The collection of data onthe physical charcteristics of harp seals, collection of tissues for pesticide and heavy mental analysis, examination of reproductive status and natural history observations - part of a larger project to develop a management model....

Principal Investigator: Daborn, G.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: The collection of base-line data on the distribution and physiological phenomena af Arctic flora and fauna. Two specific on-going studies pertain to levels of pesticide residues in livers of mammals, birds and fish....