Principal Investigator:Palmer, Mike Licensed Year(s):
2019
20182017 Summary:
The overarching objectives of this research are two-fold:
1)To investigate watershed and within-lake abiotic processes affecting the recovery of mine-impacted lakes in the Yellowknife area, including storage and release of arsenic from soils, seasonal dynamics of arsenic export in runoff, and fluxes of arsenic to and from lake sediments; and
2) To investigate the toxicological consequences of ...
Principal Investigator:Chételat, John Licensed Year(s):
2015
Summary:
The main objective of this study is to investigate the ecosystem health of Yellowknife Bay. We will address the following questions through a field study:
1) What is the quality of water and sediment in Yellowknife Bay (focusing on metals, nutrients and cyanobacteria)?
2) What are the main sources and transport pathways of metals accumulating in the food web of Yellowknife Bay?
3) How much of ...
Principal Investigator:Chételat, John Licensed Year(s):
2014
2013 Summary:
Yellowknife Bay on Great Slave Lake is a water body of cultural, subsistence and recreational importance for the Yellowknives Dene First Nation (YKDFN) and residents of Yellowknife. The ecosystem health of Yellowknife Bay has been impacted by historical mining releases of metals (particularly arsenic), as well as long-range atmospheric transport of metals such as mercury from far-away human emissi...
Principal Investigator:Gantner, Nikolaus (Klaus) Licensed Year(s):2013
2012
2011 Summary:
The long term goals of this research are:
1. to identify and quantify the physical, chemical and ecological processes that affect contaminant transfer in Arctic aquatic food webs in response to observed and predicted climate variability & change in the Husky Lakes Watershed (HLW); and
2. to provide people and regulators of Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk with tools to effectively monitor selected highly...
Principal Investigator:Guthrie, Glen H Licensed Year(s):
2011
2010 Summary:
This study will provide current information about the health of some subsistence predatory fish in ten commonly used lakes by residents of the Sahtu Settlement Area (SSA). This investigation may help to identify alternative sources of fish from lakes not impacted to the degree as seen in Kelly Lake. A future, far more thorough study of mercury abundance and bio-magnification trends may also result...
Principal Investigator:Macdonald, Colin R Licensed Year(s):2012
2010
2009 Summary:
The objective of this study is to collect whitefish and lake trout in the Keith Arm of Great Bear Lake near Deline and analyze tissues for metals and radionuclides. The results of this study will supplement the results of a study conducted in 2009 which reported the concentrations of metals, radionuclides and organo-chlorine pesticides in a small number of trout and herring.
Twenty whitefis...
Principal Investigator:Widmeyer, Joline Licensed Year(s):
2010
Summary:
The objective of this study is to identify what fish species are in Ruth Lake and Bullmoose Lake and to conduct tissue sampling which will assist in determining if the fish in these lakes are bioaccumulating heavy metals.
Fish will be sampled using techniques such as minnow trapping, seining, gill netting, angling and possibly boat electrofishing.
Nets and minnow traps may be left at the sam...
Principal Investigator:Katz, Sharon Licensed Year(s):
2009
Summary:
The objectives of this study are: (a) To determine whether brominated flame retardants (BFRs), current use pesticides (CUPs), perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), and mercury bioaccumulate using the vegetation-caribou-wolf food chain and the Bathurst caribou herd as a model; (b) To explore possible sources of lead contamination in the Bathurst herd caribou; (c) To elucidate the pathway of lead uptake ...
Principal Investigator:Chan, Laurie H. M. Licensed Year(s):
2007
Summary:
Lichens, cotton grass and willows will be collected in the NWT to be used in a study of caribou diet in comparison with quantitative fatty acid signature (QFASA) and mercury analyses. Fieldwork is being conducted in correlation with a caribou serum and adipose tissue sampling project.
Mercury (Hg) is a global environmental contaminant that derives mostly from burning fossil fuels. The Porcupine...
Principal Investigator:Evans, Marlene S. Licensed Year(s):
2007
2006 Summary:
This study is designed to determine what the levels of contaminants are in char when these fish return from feeding in the ocean in the summer.
This is the fourth year of a study investigating the contaminant levels in sea-run Arctic char as they return from feeding in the ocean. The reason this study is being conducted is to provide communities with more information on the chemical levels in t...