NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Stephenson, Tasha
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991
Summary: This project will involve the collection of data on the harvest of walrus in the Foxe Basin area. Measurements will be taken on the walrus harvested and tissue samples will be collected for the purpose of assessing contaminant levels in tissues. Hunters from Igloolik and Hall Beach will be trained in sampling techniques and the local Hunters' and Trappers' Associations will be contracted to carr...

Principal Investigator: Harwood, Lois
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992
Summary: Members of each of the communities will be hired to sample and measure the ringed seals taken in the spring and summer harvests. These monitors will be trained prior to the field season in order to collect data on the size and location of the harvests, as well as measurements on the seals harvested including sexual maturity, health, and condition. Samples of tissue taken will include jaws, lungs...

Principal Investigator: Clayton, Terry
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researchers will obtain fisheries, water quality and bathymetric information on Long Lake, as well as obtaining information on the relative abundance of fish in other waterbodies of the South Basin. They will also obtain information on levels of metals in fish tissue from selected South Basin waterbodies....

Principal Investigator: Ash, Gary R.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992
Summary: The researchers will obtain baseline water quality data for the study waterbodies, discharge information for the major streams in the study area, baseline information on fish species composition and relative abundance in the study area, and information of background levels of metals in fish tissue from selected waterbodies in the area....

Principal Investigator: Patenaude, Nathalie
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher will use a crossbow to fire an arrow with a stainless steel biopsy tip into landed beluga whales. Different tip designs will be tested to evaluate biopsy tip length and diameter required for effective sample retrieval, strength of bow string, and effective distance. Tissue surrounding the sample site will also be tested for tissue damage, and wounds will be photographed after each...

Principal Investigator: Couture, Richard
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researchers will conduct a sampling program to describe the current state of the fisheries resources in the Rio Fido - Frayed Knots River drainage....

Principal Investigator: Brunskill, Gregg
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990
Summary: The Researcher and team will obtain live fish for immediate field dissection and dry ice freezing of tissue samples for contaminant, enzyme and protein measurements. Large core samples of deep lake muds are sliced into thin layers in the field for radiochemical estimation of slice age and the measurements for organochlorines, PAHs, metals and other geochemical parameters....

Principal Investigator: Stewart, Robert E.A.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1990
Summary: This study involves the weighing, measuring and sampling of ringed seals which are harvested during normal hunting activities around Pangnirtung. Sampling includes the collection of various tissues and organs. This information will be used to estimate how quickly the ringed seal population replaces harvested animals....

Principal Investigator: Glemet, Helene
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990
Summary: The Researcher will collect blood/hemolymph and tissues from representative Arctic marine fish, echinoderm, crustacean and mollusc species. The fish will be netted and the invertebrates dredged. Samples will be analyzed for their fatty acid composition. A sample size of 6-8 individuals will be required from each species....

Principal Investigator: De Guise, Sylvain
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: Dr. De Guise and his assistant, with the co-operation of the Hunters and Trappers Association, will accompany the beluga hunt. Samples of organs will be collected and saved in formalin for further examination at the Unviversity of Montreal....