NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Ferguson, Gordon
Licensed Year(s): 2003
Summary: Following environmental impact assessments, the National Energy Board and the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board granted approvals to Paramount Resources Ltd. for the construction of specific infrastructure within the Significant Discovery Area. Atta...

Principal Investigator: Robinson, Stephen
Licensed Year(s): 1996 1995
Summary: Research will be conducted in a peatland complex approximately 12 km west of Fort Simpson (4 km west of the Wrigley Road). The major component of the field work will include the collection of peat cores in both frozen and unfrozen terrain to about 1 m depth. A total of approximately 100 cores will be collected. Core holes will be approximately 15 cm wide, and will be filled to minimize terrain ...

Principal Investigator: Marion, Christine
Licensed Year(s): 1995
Summary: The researchers will take and analyse duplicate peat cores collected at each of their sites. A modified Macaulay peat corer (inside diameter 5 cm) for the non frozen peat and a small diameter permafrost probe for the perennially frozen peat will be used. Analysis of the peat cores for macrofossils stratigraphy, vegitation stratigraphy and peat chemistry will be completed....

Principal Investigator: Tarnocai, Charles
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: Soil (at seven depths) and air temperature data are recorded by data loggers. These loggers are programmed to collect data every 3 hours on the hour. The sites are visited twice a year to reprogram the loggers. In addition, active layer depth and subsidence are also recorded during the fall visit. Researchers will collect this data in order to determine the effect of climate change on the envi...

Principal Investigator: Wein, Ross
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The research team will be examining areas of permafrost south of Inuvik and near Hay River in order to assess the rate of loss of permafrost as a result of the warming in climate over the past twenty years. The loss in permafrost may be speeded up following a local fire. The wetlands that replace these areas of permafrost could lead to a greater production of methane (one of the gases that contr...

Principal Investigator: Wein, Ross
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The research will examine permafrost-containing peat plateaus that have burned during severe fires to determine the features of subsidence (decrease) and the rate of subsidence....

Principal Investigator: Nadji, Kayhan
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The Researcher will continue to investigate the relationship between the architectural and technical aspects of buildings and severe northern climate....

Principal Investigator: Hamilton, James P.
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: Karst landscapes are landforms developed on carbonate rocks in humid and temperate climates and are relatively rare in permafrost areas. The Researcher and team will focus on understanding how Karst has and is developing in the Northern Mackenzie Mountains. This will be done by identifying karst forms and examining how water moves in these environments....

Principal Investigator: Lemmen, Donald
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990
Summary: The Researchers will collect small samples of surficial materials for sedimentological, geochemical and paleoecological analysis. They will map, describe and explain the unconsolidated deposits, landforms, permafrost and organic cover and study patterns of glacial dispersal and drift geochemistry....

Principal Investigator: Begin, Christian
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The research team will investigate a few localities to determine the best sites to study eolian deposits (sand dunes) and features related to permafrost degradation. Samples of granular and organic deposits will be taken....