NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Fiess, Kathryn M
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4819. The objective of the project is to develop reliable approaches to estimate the geothermal potential of flooded mines, using the Con Mine as a field example, and contributing to the development of renewable energy alternatives to the benefit of the Northwest Territories. The geothermal potential of a flooded mine mostl...

Principal Investigator: Fiess, Kathryn M
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4817. The overarching goal of this project is to define the basin evolution of the Southern Northwest Territories (SNWT) to assess the potential for geothermal energy production from the SNWT sedimentary basin. The underlying hypothesis of the project is that a better-understanding of the basin history of the SNWT will prov...

Principal Investigator: Fiess, Kathryn M
Licensed Year(s): 2018
Summary: This year’s objective is to complete the work at the selected locations by obtaining a full suite of rock samples for analysis, photograph each location, and measure natural radiation. At each site, the rock exposure will be photographed in detail. Natural radiation will be measured every half meter using a sensor without major disturbance of the rock face. At each location, rock samples weigh...

Principal Investigator: Fiess, Kathryn M
Licensed Year(s): 2016
Summary: To characterize the source rock potential of Devonian to Cretaceous age shales in the southern Peel Plateau. At each site, the rock exposure will be described in detail and photographed. Natural radiation will be measured every meter using a sensor. A small amount of rock (equivalent to size of a fist) will be sampled every meter. Additional samples of 1-2 kg may be collected for dating the age...

Principal Investigator: Fiess, Kathryn M
Licensed Year(s): 2014 2013
Summary: The objective of this project is to identify a vertebrate fossil of Carboniferous age recently found in the Golata Formation in the Liard Basin. The research group is studying outcrops of Devonian to Carboniferous age shale to establish the hydrocarbon resource potential for the NWT, BC, and Yukon regions of the Liard area. Scientific investigations include measuring rock outcrop sections and t...