Principal Investigator:Day, Edith Licensed Year(s):
2001
Summary:
The research team will be flown from Norman Wells to the base camp at Moose Horn River by helicopter. Moves to fly camps (Stoneknife River and Black Wolf Creek) will also be made by helicopter. The camp will consist of one sleeping tent per team member and one cooking tent. The research team will walk to data collection sites on foot. Data collection will consist of measuring rocks with a rule...
Principal Investigator:Jagels, Richard Licensed Year(s):
2000
Summary:
The NWT component of this study is to examine how the anatomical features of wood from the genus Larix, vary with changes in latitude. This will be compared to work done on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut where a fossil forest of mummified wood approximately 45 million years old was found. Certain features of wood can provide clues to assess winter temperatures but these features vary with latitude....