NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Bird, Charles D.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To collect samples of and conduct research on bryophytes, lichens and lepidoptera....

Principal Investigator: Zoltai, S.C.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To study the vegetation-soil-perma- frost relationships and the potential effect of building a gas pipeline over this type of terrain....

Principal Investigator: Howland, William G.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: Analysis of vegetation, soil and surface material, and ground control studies for aerial photographic studies of vegetation and terrain....

Principal Investigator: MacDonald, S.D.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: Detailed observations of breeding and development habits of all species of birds, plant community mapping and sea bird observations....

Principal Investigator: Hutchinson, Tom
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To determine the degree of recovery of crude oil spills made in 1972 and 1973 on taiga at Norman Wells and tundra at Tuktoyaktuk. To determine the effects of a 1975 diesel oil spill on taiga at Norman Wells and to compare the effects with crude oil spills made in comparable terrain. To examine the pattern of vegetational recovery of these areas. To examine the effects of crude oil spills made o...

Principal Investigator: Hutchinson, Tom
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To develop a practical and economic method of revegetation of "difficult" tailings and mine sites in the N.W.T., using acid and metal tolerant vegetation growing naturally at the highly stressed Smoking Hills area of Cape Bathurst, N.W.T....

Principal Investigator: Thomas, Don
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To collect data on late winter habitats and diets of carioub on the Boothia Peninsula for pipeline assessments; to determine how long productivity rates can remain at low levels on Melville and Prince Patrick Islands; to examine growth indices of arctic willow and their relationship to past productivity of caribou; to make management of insular and near insular populations of caribou easier and mo...

Principal Investigator: Kershaw, K.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To examine the growth and ecology of Stereocaulon paschale and its importance as fodder in caribou winter range....

Principal Investigator: Gill, D.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: Deltaic geomorphology and fluvial environments will be mapped and studied, sedimentation studies will be done and samples taken for laboratory analysis. Vegetation will be mapped and categorized as to terrestrial, wetland and aquatic. Small mammal trapping, to determine species composition and their use of various vegetation types. Similar field observations will be made on the habitats of delt...

Principal Investigator: Howland, William G.
Licensed Year(s): 1976
Summary: 1) Familiarization with plant distribution, 2) Physical site analysis, 3) Study reflectivity of newly emerged plants....