NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Caswell, F. Dale
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The researchers will be studying Canada geese which breed in the eastern arctic areas of Cape Dominion (on Baffin Island), the Boas River (on Southampton Island) and the McConnell River (on the west coast of Hudson Bay). Leg bands and neck collars will be placed on individual birds in order to assist US and Canadian biologists in determining migration routes and wintering grounds of the tall gras...

Principal Investigator: Chapdelaine, Gilles
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1987
Summary: The researchers will return to Akpatok Island in order to gather information on the biology of these seabirds. This study will increase knowledge on population size, the effects of the annual `turr' hunt in Newfoundland on this population, and where thick-billed murres overwinter in the south....

Principal Investigator: Bromley, Robert G.
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The researcher is interested in determining how many and what kinds of ducks, geese and swans are shot in the spring, as well as how many of the adult females harvested have eggs developing in them. This research has received a Wildlife Research Permit # WL 001432. A licence from the Science Institute is issued in order that the researcher can receive support from the Inuvik Research Centre....

Principal Investigator: Armstrong, Terry
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991
Summary: This ongoing study will involve observing glaucous gulls as they prey on nests of black brant and lesser snow geese. I will attempt to determine why the gulls seem to be more successful when attacking the nests of brant than those of snow geese. I will examine the feeding behaviour of the gulls and the defense behaviour of the geese. I will also examine the nesting success and clutch sizes of b...

Principal Investigator: Hines, Jim
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: Data on the distribution, abundance, survival/mortality, and productivity are essential for the sound management of wildlife populations but there is a critical lack of such information for white-fronted geese, Canada geese, Pacific brant and tundra swan populations from the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. Helicopter surveys, ground counts and banding/neck collaring will help to determine distribut...

Principal Investigator: Roney, Keith
Licensed Year(s): 1995 1991
Summary: The Researcher will gather information by aerial reconnaissance to take photographs of nesting areas; a ground study by boat to photograph and take notes on the habitat of nesting birds; a library search for information on the Mackenzie Delta and will conduct interviews with local researchers and residents for additional information....

Principal Investigator: Dickson, H. Loney
Licensed Year(s): 1989 1987
Summary: To compile site specific information for planning, mitigation and monitoring on the distribution and abundance of migratory birds, with particular emphasis placed on specific shorebirds in the area of the proposed Polar Gas Pipeline, gas gathering site on Richards Island....

Principal Investigator: Green, John M.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To further investigate the abundance and distribution patterns of benthic fishes to provide a better basis for understanding variations in the foraging behaviour and reproductive success of the black guillemots. Underwater observations will be made on benthic fishes and some specimens will be collected for analysis of their food habits, growth rates and fecundity....

Principal Investigator: Hayes, Brian
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To investigate the breeding biology of high-arctic, lightbellied brent geese (Branta bernicla hrota), including allied environmental factors which influence their breeding success....

Principal Investigator: Lyon, Bruce E.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To carry studies of: (1) parental care in tundra birds (2) ecological correlates of nest dispersion in high arctic birds. To study species will be Red Phalarope and Sabine's Gull. Individual birds will be color-marked to facilitate recognition....