NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Elliot, Nancy
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993
Summary: As part of a study that includes all Canadian World Heritage Sites, the researcher will visit Wood Buffalo National Park and Nahanni National Park Reserve in order to study current resource management issues. The researcher will conduct interviews with park personnel to gain first-hand knowledge and appreciation of the regional characteristics of these sites as well as specific management issues....

Principal Investigator: Allen, Eric
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: This project will identify and summarize the types of information that the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board receives and uses in its decision-making. A survey and review of past Board meetings will provide data for this exercise as will interviews with government and Inuit officials that are associated with the Board. This research will be performed in Iqaluit with a short visit to Rankin Inlet...

Principal Investigator: Harwood, Lois
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: A full-span conduit weir will be used to estimate the strength (i.e., numbers) of the upstream run of arctic charr at the Kuujjua River. Fish passing through the weir will be counted and measured, and a subset of these fish will be tagged and sampled....

Principal Investigator: Cohen, Stewart
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992
Summary: The Mackenzie Basin Impact Study will assess the potential impacts of global climatic change on the region. The component on land assessment will determine possible changes in land capability. Information on resource management goals is needed so that the study can can assess whether changes in land capability might lead to conflicts over land use....

Principal Investigator: Pollard, Wayne H
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1992 1991 1990 1988
Summary: The researchers will gain a better understanding of permafrost conditions of the study area and the environmental conditions under which permafrost formed and evolved. They will also investigate icings and icing processes, since icings are a hydrologic phenomenon and their occurance has implications for recharge and runoff of drainage systems and water resource management....

Principal Investigator: Roberts, Karen
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The research is an evaluation of co-management practice in the Western Arctic as it is established under the Inuvialuit Final Agreement. The study will use the Inuvialuit Wildlife Management Advisory Council for the NWT as the case study and will involve attending meetings and conducting key informant interviews....

Principal Investigator: Muir, Magdelena A.K.
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The researcher will revise and publish a manuscript which presents a legal and administrative analysis of the land claim agreements and their effect on water management in the Northwest Territories....

Principal Investigator: Squires Taylor, Cindy
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The Researcher will conduct a survey, approximately 30 km on either side of the Mackenzie River using satellite imagery. A classification will be undertaken of the area from the Mackenzie Delta to the Fort Simpson area, with wider zones along the east side to include proposed pipeline routes. The information can be plotted as colour maps to show the location of trap lines, forest fires or wildlife...

Principal Investigator: Vannijnatten, Debora
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will investigate the degree to which the Inuit communities of Arctic Bay and Pond Inlet were involved in the desicion making process to set the boundaries for North Baffin Park. She will also examine how concerns are expressed in Inuit community involvement in these processes....

Principal Investigator: Rohlmann, Monika
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will examine the property regime established under the Inuvialuit Regional Settlement Act. Informal field observations, literature and file reviews and informal discussions with key persons will be carried out....