Research & Records

This page is under construction: for now you will find some of the research initiatives from Dempster Country listed. Eventually this page will contain a searchable database of Dempster Research.

Publications and Resources

Birds

• Birds by the Dempster Highway, Robert Frisch
• Birds of the Yukon Territory, Sinclair, Nixon, Eckert & Hughes
• Birdsong of the Arctic, John Neville, available at: http://www.nevillerecording.com
• May birding on the Dempster, Pam Sinclair: http://yukonweb.com/community/ybc/dempster.html
• Tombstone Bird Checklist

Botany

• Carrissa Brown (PhD candidate), forest fire and treeline dynamics: http://www.acuns.ca/cnst08-09rec.htm
• Flora of the Yukon Territory, William J. Cody
• Gwich'in Ethnobotany, Alestine Andre, Alan Fehr
• CYSIP Botany: An E-Flora for Central Yukon, www.flora.dempstercountry.org
• Wild Flowers of the Yukon, Alaska & N.W.Canada, John G. Trelawny
• Mosses Lichens & Ferns of NW North America, Vitt, Marsh, Bovey
• Plants of the Boreal Forest & Aspen Parkland, Johnson, Kershaw, MacKinnon, Pojar

Earth Sciences

• Pascale Roy-Léveillée (MSc). Frozen Ground, Permafrost,
  Pascale is studying the distribution of snow in the Blackstone Uplands, Yukon Territory, and the controls on this distribution by topography and vegetation. Her project is aimed at determining how snow cover in various terrain units of the area is related to index sites near the Dempster Highway. The application of her project is in management of snowmobile traffic and its impact on tundra soils and vegetation.
  • http://www.polarcom.gc.ca/rt.php?mode=ViewPost&postingID=88811
  • http://www.geo.uio.no/IPA/NewsCanada.htm
• Graburn, Larry, 2005, ColtKBR, Geotechnical Investigation for Pipeline
  http://wiki.nwtresearch.com/Default.aspx?Page=13741&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
• John S. Kimble, National Soil National SnoSurvey Center, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Soil Survey along the Dempster:
  • http://data.eol.ucar.edu/codiac/dss/id=106.ARCSS056
  • http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/cgi-bin/get_metadata.pl?id=arcss056

Insects

• Joey Bowden (PhD candidate), Northern Spiders
• http://insectecology.mcgill.ca/lab.htm
• Northern Spiders: explorations in the Yukon http://reporter.mcgill.ca/2008/09/northern-spiders-explorations-in-the-yukon-tundra/
• Syd Cannings, zoologist and etomologist
  Dragonflies of the Yukon

Mammals

• Sarah Trefry, Pika Vocalizations
• Collared pika (Ochotona collaris, O. princeps) vocalizations: evolutionary and ecological considerations
• Troy Pretzlaw, Climate Change and Mammals:
• http://nrs-staff.mcgill.ca/humphries/troy.html
• Patern, composition & resource selection across the Yukon forest to tundra transition
• Aedes Scheer, Master of Life Sciences:


• The effect of warble and nasal bot fly larvae parasites on the body condition of cow Porcupine Caribou
• Serendipitous discovery of a novel protostrongylid (Nematoda:Metastrongyloidea) in caribou (Rangifer tarandus), muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus), and moose (Alces americanus) from high latitudes of North America based on DNA sequence comparisons.

Fish

• A baseline guide to fish species occurring in the region, study conducted by Matthew McHugh

Other Organizations

The Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Coop

The Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Coop monitors and assesses change in the range of the Porcupine Caribou Herd and adjacent Mackenzie Delta area in NWT, Yukon & Alaska. This groups administers Taiga Net, which is a co-operative environmental and community web network.

http://taiga.net/coop/index.html

http://taiga.net

The Yukon Science Institute

The Yukon Science Institute promotes public awareness of Science activities in the Yukon and aides and facilitates scientific research and development:

http://taiga.net/ysi/index.html

The Northern Research Institute

The Northern Research Institute (NRI) is a division of Yukon College that provides research services and support to the College and other organizations:

http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/nri

NRI reveal northern reseasrch in action

Yukon Bird Club

http://www.yukonweb.com/community/ybc

Porcupine Caribou Monitoring Board (PCMB)

http://taiga.net/pcmb

Circum Arctic Rangifer Monitoring and assessment network (CARMA)

http://www.carmanetwork.com/display/public/home

Yukon Parks

Yukon Parks, a department of the Territorial Government, plans and manages Parks throughout the Territory. Their site contains a link to publications, maps and data.

www.yukonparks.ca

The Arctic Institute

The Arctic Institute's mission is to advance the study of the North American and circumpolar Arctic through the natural and social sciences, the arts and humanities and to acquire, preserve and disseminate information on physical, environmental and social conditions in the North.

http://www.arctic.ucalgary.ca/index.php?page=kluane_station