NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Svoboda, Josef
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: (1) Study of a lush high arctic lowland oasis - Alexandra Fiord - June - September 1981. (2) Comparative study of two arctic grasses (Saxifraga cernua) Lake Hazen & Rankin Inlet - June to August 1981. (3) Investigation into the possibility of growing native arctic plants as a food crop - Rankin Inlet - July - August 1981. (4) A study of the natural radioactivity in uranium rich northe...

Principal Investigator: Ritchie, J.C.
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: (a) To collect a series of lake sediments; (b) To collect selected plant groups and conduct vegetation analysis....

Principal Investigator: Johnson, Edward A.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To conduct a study of the degree to which 32 species of plants adapt and change to meet changing environmental conditions....

Principal Investigator: Cordes, L. D.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To conduct a survey of the vegetation in the Mackenzie Delta and relate the different types of vegetation to the seasonal flood levels....

Principal Investigator: Hollinshead, G.W.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To conduct a study of the rates of sedimentaiton in the Liard and Mackenzie rivers. The sedimentation rate will be corelated to the types of vegetation in the study areas....

Principal Investigator: Kabzems, Richard
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To describe the present condition and measure the vegetation cover of several revegetaion trails undertaken during 1976 & 1977....

Principal Investigator: Nieminen, G.A.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To undertake environmental field studies relating tothe environmental assessment of a mine/mill development and a winterd access road. The studies will include fisheries studies, vegetation identification, soil sampling, and wildlife habitat assessment....

Principal Investigator: Bliss, Lawrence
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: Life history study of the grasses Phippsia algida and Puccinellia vaginata. To compare plant growth forms of these two grasses in low and high Arctic conditions....

Principal Investigator: Hutchinson, Tom
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To continue a study of the effects of acid fumes (Smoking Hills) on land and water vegetation. Soil samples will be collected for future lab analysis. Oil spill sites will also be revisited and monitored....

Principal Investigator: Bain, John F.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To undertake a field study of a family of annual, biennial or perennial herbs (SENECIO Sp) as part of a program towards a Ph.d. degree. Collections of these plants will be made and retained for further laboratory analysis, cataloguing and classification....