NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Tracy, A.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: A study of Eskimo art cooperatives to ascertain the role of the coop in Eskimo society. Will also collect moss samples for the geology department....

Principal Investigator: Bliss, Lawrence
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: To determine plant responses to environmental changes which result from disturbances and how surface disturbance alters soil heat and moisture regimes, for Arctic Land Use Research Program....

Principal Investigator: Smith, M.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: To develop an understanding of the heat balance of undisturbed soil and vegetation and develop a computer model which will predict the consequences in the active layer of disturbances of the surface strata for Arctic Land Use Research Program....

Principal Investigator: Kershaw, K.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: To determine how plant communities in the northern boreal forest respond to burning or to protection from burning, their rate of recovery and the factors governing the recovery process, for Arctic Land Use Research Program....

Principal Investigator: Hutchinson, Tom
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: To ascertain how crude oil affects terrestrial and aquatic plants, and soil and water micro-organisms, for Arctic Land Use Research Program....

Principal Investigator: MacKay, D.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: To determine how spilled oil behaves and interacts wit the northern environment; how far and how quickly spilled oil will spread on land and in water. To ascertain how low temperatures and snow affect its spread; how deeply oil penetrates into the vegetation, litter or peat and mineral soil layers and what proportion will be lost to evaporation. To provide an indication of the area which would b...

Principal Investigator: Dabbs, Donald
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: (1) Seeding of native grasses - Tununuk Point. (2) Effect on vegetation of methyL alcohol spills - Inuvik area. (3) Restoration of tundra vegetation after ditching - Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula. (4) Biodegradation of methyl alcohol - Inuvik area. (5) Use of biodegradable fibre mats for slope stabilization - Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula. (6) Seeding of large disturbed areas at rig sites. (7) Monitoring of...

Principal Investigator: Kay, Paul
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: To survey and map beachlines and other geological features around Dubawnt Lake and to collect some samples of peat, lake sediments and plants....

Principal Investigator: Lewis, M.C.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: Ecological studies, primarily the growth and reproduction of tundra plants and their importance as forage for tundra animals....

Principal Investigator: Millington, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: Examination of modern vegetation and pollen in comparison with the record found in lake sediments and peats to study glacial history....