NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Wolfe, Alexander P.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1990
Summary: The Researcher will continue to investigate lakes on the unglaciated terrain of Fosheim Peninsula to determine the former environments of high and low arctic lakes. By analyzing the physical and chemical properties of the sediments, as well as the preserved biological remains within them, the nature and timing of rapid environmental changes at the close of the last glaciation may be explained....

Principal Investigator: Pedder, Alan E.H.
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher will collect 1/2 to 2 kilogram samples of limestone. These are sent to a lab for processing which leaves small fossils of calcium phosphate. These are studied to determine their age and the conditions of the life of the fossils....

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....

Principal Investigator: Ouellet, H.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: The collection of bird specimens in conjunction with a research program on bird distribution and taxonomy....