Principal Investigator:Baltzer, Jennifer L Licensed Year(s):2024
2023
2022202120202019 Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5543.
This projects two main objectives are to monitor the recovery of NWT forests following wildfire to better understand post-fire changes on forest composition and ground vegetation and to develop baseline information about proposed forest management areas to support assessment of harvesting impacts on these areas.
T...
Principal Investigator:Olefeldt, David Licensed Year(s):
2023
20222021 Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5448.
This project proposes to monitor wetlands, streams, rivers, and lakes in the Dehcho region, with a focus on understanding current and future trends in aquatic mercury and methylmercury. The region has vast stores of mercury accumulated in organic wetland soils, and there is a risk that disturbances such as permafrost ...
Principal Investigator:Miller, Charles E Licensed Year(s):
2022
Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5304.
The extended ABoVE Study Area includes most of northwestern North America west of Hudson Bay and north and east of the coastal mountain ranges. It encompasses the variability in the key types of ecosystems that are both unique to arctic and boreal regions in North America as well as being representative of the larger ...
Principal Investigator:Sonnentag, Oliver Licensed Year(s):
2022
20212019201720162015201420132013 Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5221.
The project is the continuation of year-round eddy covariance measurements of carbon, water and energy fluxes at Scotty Creek, established in 2013.
The key methodology is tower-mounted micrometeorological measurements around the eddy covariance technique using an open-path infra-red gas analyzer and a sonic anemome...
Principal Investigator:Smith, Sharon S Licensed Year(s):2023
2022
202120202019 Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5181.
The combined temperature and active layer monitoring network extends from Fort Simpson to the Arctic Coast. With monitoring instrumentation already in place through work under previous licenses, the main work of this phase will be data collection. While different parts of the network can be visited at different times ...
Principal Investigator:Quinton, William L. Licensed Year(s):
2022
Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5120.
The long-term objective of this research program is to improve the understanding, parameterisation and prediction of water flow and storage processes in peatland-dominated, thawing, discontinuous permafrost. Over the next 5 years, significant progress toward this long term objective will be made through the following ...
Principal Investigator:Olefeldt, David Licensed Year(s):
2021
20192018 Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4734.
The objective of this research is to identify impacts of climate change and permafrost thaw on pond methane emissions, and on water chemistry in streams that drain peatland-rich catchments. Impacts on methane emissions will be assessed.
Specific objectives are: 1) to characterize the trends and variability in magn...
Principal Investigator:Pisaric, Michael FJ Licensed Year(s):
2019
201820172016 Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4564.
The objectives of this research are to examine the frequency and severity of past wildfire and drought (drought-like) conditions in the southern Northwest Territories. Specifically, the research team will examine the following questions: 1) how frequent and severe have fires been in the; 2) are fires becoming more fre...
Principal Investigator:Chasmer, Laura E Licensed Year(s):
2019
Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4527.
The objectives are to:
1) Compare the distribution of tree and shrub biomass within accessible areas in the Taiga Shield and Taiga Plains landscapes using lidar remote sensing, and by developing tree and shrub vegetation biomass models from field data;
2) Characterize and compare non fire-disturbed patterns of veget...
Principal Investigator:Korosi, Jennifer B Licensed Year(s):
2019
2018 Summary:
The goal is to reconstruct long-term environmental change (hundreds to thousands of years) by examining chemical and biological fossil remains preserved in lake sediment cores, in order to better understand how thawing permafrost impacts lake ecosystems.
1) Water chemistry and plankton survey
The research team will collect lake water samples from the study lakes to analyze for water chemistry...