NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Clark, Douglas A.
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: This research will integrate and map polar bear knowledge systems, and translate findings into a community-based monitoring protocol that will track polar bear population responses to environmental change. Research questions include:1) Are polar bear science data, existing Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), and historical records from the fur trade,explorer’s personal accounts and government ...

Principal Investigator: Lougheed, Stephen C.
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2018
Summary: This research will integrate and map polar bear knowledge systems and translate findings into a community-based monitoring protocol that will track polar bear population responses to environmental change. Research questions include: i1) Are polar bear science data, existing Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), and historical records from the fur trade, explorer’s personal accounts and governmen...

Principal Investigator: Maraj, Ramona
Licensed Year(s): 2011 2010
Summary: Local and traditional knowledge will be collected related to the population status of polar bears, and the influence that climate change has had on polar bears and their habitat in the Beaufort Sea. The information from interviews will be used to develop a description of acceptable management practices and management goals for polar bears and compare this information to science-based information ...

Principal Investigator: Slavik, Daniel VW
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2009 2008
Summary: The objectives of this research are to document Inuvialuit knowledge, perspectives, and observations of factors that influence polar bears population health on Banks Island and in the Beaufort Region; and explore how traditional knowledge, community observations, scientific studies, and other information interact to inform hunters about sustainable harvest levels of polar bears. The researcher ...

Principal Investigator: Stirling, Ian
Licensed Year(s): 1990 1988 1987
Summary: Dr. Ian Stirling and his team will record underwater sounds of walruses and observe their behaviour....

Principal Investigator: Stirling, Ian
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: Use sub-ice recording to study distribution of overwintering populations of seals in relation to plynyas, sea ice conditions, patterns of freeze-up, distribution of ringed seal pupping areas, distribution of polar bears and proposed winter shipping lanes....

Principal Investigator: Stirling, Ian
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: (1) To study how the polar bear relates to its environment and what effect the environment has on its population growth. (2) To conduct behavioural studies of polar bear. (3) To conduct aerial surveys of seals in order to provide information for polar bear studies....

Principal Investigator: Furnell, Don
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To determine areas used as summer retreats by polar bear....

Principal Investigator: Schweinsburg, R.E.
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: Survey of polar bear denning areas, seasonal movement patterns, and polar bear tagging....

Principal Investigator: Stirling, Ian
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: (1) Effects of oil and polar bears, baseline heavy metal and toxic chemical surveys and population surveys of polar bears. (2) Survey of polar bear denning areas and polar bear tagging. (3) To assess seasonal movement patterns of polar bears and denning site surveys....