NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Bryant, Wayne
Licensed Year(s): 1996 1995
Summary: The researchers will be involved in a mult-disciplined, integrated and focused series of investigation regarding water quality, hydrology and climatology, fisheries, aquatic, wildlife, vegetation, soils and terrain, and heritage resources. Taken with complementary socio-economic, traditional knowledge and environmental management investigations, this data will be used to prepare an environmental ...

Principal Investigator: Ash, Neville
Licensed Year(s): 1995
Summary: The researchers will field collect and preserve dwarf willow leaf specimens. Further, note will be made of habitat of specimens (aspect; slope angle; drainage; accompanying vegetation; etc). Site locations will be determined using a global positioning system altitude/latitude/longitude) for map plotting. Samples will be analysed on return to the United Kingdom for leaf stomatal density (an indi...

Principal Investigator: Jette, Helene
Licensed Year(s): 1995 1993 1992
Summary: The researcher will sample a variety of lakes (some 50 lakes altogether) around Inuvik. A hole, approximately 8 inches in diameter, will be bored through the ice in each lake. Using an Ekman sampler, lake bottom sediments (mud) will be collected for analysis in the lab. The researchers will get to each of the lakes bt helicopter and spend approximately 15 to 20 minutes at each lake....

Principal Investigator: Thompson, John
Licensed Year(s): 1995
Summary: The researchers will first conduct a telephone survey with a random sample of northern residents. A further mail in questionaire will be completed by those in agreement. A similar questionaire will be mailed to representatives of local government and interest groups and interest groups that were identified in a screening study conducted in June, 1994....

Principal Investigator: Svoboda, Josef
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992 1991 1988 1987
Summary: The aim of the Sverdrup Pass Project is to learn how vegetation returned to the artic realm after the retreat of the continental ice sheet (8000 years ago) and the prospect of the land becoming green if climate warms. The Itex project is geared to the effect of climate warming on the vegetation. The snow-fence study at Baker Lake is concerned with the effects of long-lying snow deposited on both s...

Principal Investigator: Copland, Elizabeth
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: Samples of plants will be collected by local residents and identified, some of which may have to be sent away for identification. Elders will be used as resource people to determine possible traditional uses of the plants. The researcher will also experiment with the various land plants to develop appropriate products. If a suitable product can be developed then each plant will be analyzed for ...

Principal Investigator: Henry, Greg H R
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992
Summary: Researchers have established field experiments in 5 plant communities to simulate climate change scenarios (i) no change; (ii) warmer, longer seasons with earlier snow melt; (iii) warmer growing seasons with later snow melt. The temperatures are increased in small open-topped greenhouses and the date of snow melt is changed by adding or removing snow. Tagged plants of the major vascular plant spec...

Principal Investigator: LePage, Ben A.
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: The researcher will begin a preliminary paleontological investigation of Permain age (about 250 million years old) sediments of the Sabine Bay Formation and the fossil plants contained within these deposits. The plants recovered will be identified and compared to Permain floras from Russia, Greenland, and Europe. Localities yielding interesting or well-preserved specimens will provide a basis for...

Principal Investigator: De Groot, Bill
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: Plant samples will be collected in the field by the researcher after they become dormat for treatment in a lab experiment. Burning treatments will be conducted in the lab where environmental growing conditions and the plant physiological state at the time of the treatment can be better controled. This will be done in order to model the effects of fire on two types of shrubs....

Principal Investigator: Gould, William
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990
Summary: The researcher will characterize the kinds and numbers of plant species that make up the various plant communities along the Hood River. Five small temperature recording stations will set up along the river, recording hourly temperatures. This will allow the researcher to see the differences in summer temperatures and how it effects the plant communities. The researcher will also try and determin...