NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Line, Jennifer
Licensed Year(s): 2000
Summary: This research will contribute to an increased understanding of ecological integrity in Nahanni National Park, provide information on the importance of glacial refugia as banks of genetic diversity and highlight the value of genetic diversity as an indicator of ecological integrity. The researcher will be transported to sampling sites within the park by Parks Canada staff (plane, helicopter). At...

Principal Investigator: Raillard, Martin
Licensed Year(s): 1998
Summary: This project will take place in Tuktuk Nogait National Park in 1998 and 1999. The objective of the project is to map the vegetation of the park. As many areas of the Park as possible will be hiked and the various vegetation communities along the hiking route will be put into one of several classes, and their exact geographical location recorded. Once the field season is over, these various geograp...

Principal Investigator: Ballantyne, James
Licensed Year(s): 1998
Summary: The project will develop new, improved lines of arctic charr for the aquaculture industry by sampling arctic charr from sites throughout the Canadian arctic, characterizing the charr physiologically and genetically, and selectively breeding for traits desirable for hatchery culture (improved survival at higher temperatures and salinities). Genetic characterization will facilitate future stock iden...

Principal Investigator: Savelle, James M.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1990
Summary: The researcher and his team will take a series of measurements on crania and mandibles of naturally stranded early Holocene bowhead whales. This will enable the original length of individual bowheads at death to be determined. These data will have immediate applications in the fields of environmental change and Thule archaeology....

Principal Investigator: Marvin, LuDean
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To re-define the classification of the Potentilla nivea L. complex using methods based on modern plant systematics. Some of the techniques and methods to be used will include chromosome counts, pollen and seed viability tests, guard cell measurements, SEM of pollin exine variations, flavonoid chemistry and numerical analyses. Attempts will be made to determine if correlations exist between morph...

Principal Investigator: Sheath, Robert
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To clarify freshwater red algae classification by determining key stable and non-overlapping structural characteristics needed to clearly separate species. Collecting trips will be made to all major drainage basins of the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic. Preserved samples will be analyzed by computerized microscopy and live samples will be cultured under varied growth conditions to induce potential ...

Principal Investigator: Streisinger, Erwin
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: Taxonomic plant identification and distribution data of plants in selected locations within an approximately two-mile band along Bellot Strait....

Principal Investigator: Harris, James
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: To undertake a comprehensive study of the genus Braya (cruciferae) (a small plant in the mustard family) which will result In a more comprehensive classification system being established....

Principal Investigator: Gillett, John M.
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: To collect plant samples for future cataloguing in the museum's collectionand preparation of material for an Arctic plant manual. Photographs will also be taken for inclusion in the manual....

Principal Investigator: Carpenter, William J.
Licensed Year(s): 1976
Summary: Standardization of a near extinct breed of indigenous sled dog known as the Eskimo dog ( Canis familiaris borealis) and the publicaiton of a breed monograph....