NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Mate, Bruce R.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The Researchers will tag 12 bowhead whales. They will study how the whales move about during the feeding season and where and when they migrate west out of the Beaufort Sea. They will determine whether the migratory routes or timing vary between different kinds of animals and will determine the dive habits of the tagged animals....

Principal Investigator: Reimer, K.J.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The Researchers will collect sediments, algae and molluscs from the waters of Cambridge Bay. Three locations will be sampled: an area receiving drainage from the radar site, an area similarly affected by the hamlet and a reference site located away from the influence of both. Samples will be evaluated in terms of occurance, population and distribution. They will be analyzed for substances arising ...

Principal Investigator: Stewart, Robert E.A.
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1990
Summary: The Researcher and his team will conduct tests to develop knowledge or techniques to improve population surveys. Four to six male walrus will be immobilized and attached with radio or beeper tags. Measurements and blood samples will be taken. After recovery their movements will be tracked. Walrus faces will be photographed to use tusk measurements as an indicator of age and gender....

Principal Investigator: Straszynski, Elizabeth
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: "Tadpole shrimp" (Notostraca) occur in ponds at all latitudes in Canada. Activity and behavior show differences between the sexes. Mating behaviour shows differences between the two latitudes already tested. Studies in southern and northern Manitoba (Portage la Prairie; Churchill) will be compared with those in the eastern Northwest Territories (Igloolik)....

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: Boileau, Marc G.
Licensed Year(s): 1988 1987 1986
Summary: The researcher will return to study the ecology and population genetics of freshwater invertebrates....

Principal Investigator: Davis, Rolph A.
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To employ recently developed photogrammetric techniques to determine reproductive parameters of the bowhead whale and the status of the Western Arctic bowhead population; and the sampling of zooplakton to determine the availability of bowhead food in the Canadian Beaufort Sea....

Principal Investigator: Rugh, David J.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To collect photographs of bowhead whales which, through stereophotogrammetric techniques, will provide length measurements of these animals allowing for a better assessment of stock stability....

Principal Investigator: Miller, E.H.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: 1) To undertake a study on the distribution, numbers, movements, feeding grounds, and reproductive characteristics of Atlantic walrus. 2) To describe herd composition, formation, and issolation including measurements of time ashore between feeding trips, duration of feeding trips, movements of individuals within herds and the effects of weather on individual and group behaviour....

Principal Investigator: Fuller, W.A.
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: Continuation of research into the habitat, population fluctuations, aging, size, and growth of small mammals in the subarctic....