NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Eberle, Jaelyn J
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2004 2003
Summary: The research objective is to explore early Eocene deposits on northern Banks Island, in search of fossil vertebrates and wood. The goals are to: (1) refine the age and ancient environments of fossil-bearing rocks comprising the Eureka Sound Group on Banks Island, allowing correlation to fossil-bearing rocks in the eastern Arctic; and (2) provide insight into paleoclimate by studying the fossil pla...

Principal Investigator: Copper, Paul
Licensed Year(s): 2003
Summary: The current study will re-examine the detailed structure, sedimentology, and paleoecology of the Devonian patch reefs of Mercy Bay, Banks Island, NWT. Transportation by fixed-wing aircraft to Polar Bear cabin near Castel Bay will be followed by helicopte...

Principal Investigator: Copper, Paul
Licensed Year(s): 2003 2002
Summary: The current study will re-examine the detailed structure, sedimentology, and paleoecology of the Devonian patch reefs of Mercy Bay, Banks Island, NWT. Transportation by fixed-wing aircraft to Polar Bear cabin near Castel Bay will be followed by helicopte...

Principal Investigator: Edinger, Evan N
Licensed Year(s): 2001 2000
Summary: The research team will examine the detailed structure, sedimentology and paleoecology of reefs in Mercy Bay. Transportation by fixed-wing aircraft to Polar Bear cabin near Castel Bay will be followed by helicopter transport to various field sites (East Branch Mercy River; Lower Mercy River; Southern Patch reefs; Princess Royal Islands; Hay Point, Victoria Island; Gordon Point, Victoria Island). ...

Principal Investigator: Cumbaa, S.L.
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2008 1997 1995
Summary: We plan to conduct geological and paleontological exploration and research, checking Devonian-age rocks exposed along a 1-2 km stretch of the Anderson River to look for bones and scales of fossil fish contained within the rocks. These rocks, and the fossils within them, are approximately 400 million years old. In 1995, we discovered bones of a primitive lungfish (an ancient, lobe-finned, air-bre...

Principal Investigator: Narbonne, Guy
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: Study 800 million year old fossil reefs near Wynniatt Bay on Victoria Island. Will fly to the site using Polar Shelf Twin-Otter aircraft. Measurements and pictures will be taken of the rocks and about 100 kg of rock samples will be collected with a hammer. The rock samples will be studied back at the university....

Principal Investigator: Harrison, J. Christopher
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: A continuing project, the researchers will define the nature of the solid earth that makes up the bedrock beneath the Arctic Islands. This involves the examination of existing maps and air-photographs, the identification of rock types in the field, the measurement of the orientation of rock layers and similar features with a surveyor's hand held compass and the collection of small samples for addi...

Principal Investigator: McIntyre, David J.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1990
Summary: The Researchers will collect rock samples for study of fossil algae (dinoflagellates) and will determine the geological age. They will correlate findings with similar material from wells and will determine climate and environment conditions at the time the rocks were deposited....

Principal Investigator: Fyles, John G.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1990
Summary: On Melville and Bathurst Islands, the Researchers will locate and describe the occurrence of high-level gravels and sands, record evidence of the flow-direction of the rivers in which they originated and search for plant and insect fossils that may provide clues about the age of these deposits and about the climate and environment at that time....

Principal Investigator: Vincent, Jean-Serge
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1990
Summary: 1. Sections along rivers and the coast will be examined to determine the nature of the sediments and their fossil content. 2. Sites on the mainland, sections on northwestern Banks Island, Sachs Harbour (Duck Hawk Bluffs) and Worth Point area will be visited and similar investigations undertaken....