NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Roney, Keith
Licensed Year(s): 1995 1991
Summary: The researchers will conduct an aerial survey of the Mackenzie Delta area to note the nesting habitats of waterfowl and shorebirds. Photographs (slides and video) will be taken as well as notes and sketches that will be applied to the design and planning of the exhibit for the Royal Saskatchewan Museum. A small plant collection (2-3 specimens of the most common plant species) will be obtained th...

Principal Investigator: Morrison, R.I.G.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1990
Summary: Work by Dr. Morrison at Alert in the mid 1970's established the Knots and Turnstones breeding on northern Ellesmere Island migrate to wintering grounds on the European seaboard. Most migrate via staging areas in Iceland, though some of the population reaches Ellesmere via Norway. The internationally coordinated research program carried out over the last six years to study the migration, ecophysiol...

Principal Investigator: Morrison, R.I.G.
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: This is a continuation of a project begun in 1986 to study year to year variation in breeding densities of shorebirds. The Researcher and team will determine which species of birds breed on the islands of the Foxe Basin, which habitats they use and how their numbers change from year to year. They are also interested in producing a map of the main wildlife habitats on the islands using satellite im...

Principal Investigator: Morrison, R.I.G.
Licensed Year(s): 1990 1989
Summary: Dr. Morrison and his research team will gather information on the species of birds breeding on the islands of the Foxe Basin, which habitats they use and how their numbers vary from year to year. A map of the main wildlife habitats on the islands will also be made using satellite images....

Principal Investigator: Dickson, H. Loney
Licensed Year(s): 1989 1987
Summary: Mr. Dickson will clean up sites examined in 1985 and 1987 and will check semi palmated plover nests on drill pads in the Kendall Sanctuary....

Principal Investigator: Montgomerie, Robert D.
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: (1) Study the foraging and competition (for space) by tundra bumblebees. (2) Study the eating and nesting habits (space use) by Sandpipers....

Principal Investigator: Stephansson, S.E.
Licensed Year(s): 1976
Summary: Migratory bird studies and seabird census surveys in connection with the Eastern Arctic Pipeline Study....

Principal Investigator: Popko, Richard
Licensed Year(s): 1976
Summary: To study the life history, behavior and ecology of the Ivory Gull....

Principal Investigator: Van Zyll de Jong, C.G.
Licensed Year(s): 1976
Summary: To collect small mammals, rodents, shrews, shore birds and passerines....

Principal Investigator: Nettleship, D.N.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: A multi-species study of the reproductive ecology of seabirds breeding on Prince Leopold Island and vicinity....