NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Spencer, Lee A
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: This licence has being issued for the scientific research application No.1072. The researchers will collect plant fossils from the Miocene Ballast Brook and Pliocene Beaufort Formations (Ballast Brook River), Banks Island. They will transport the specimens to Southern Adventist University, Collegedale, Tennessee, USA, for DNA processing and analysis. A final report will be submitted to Aurora...

Principal Investigator: Maxwell, Erin E
Licensed Year(s): 2009 2008
Summary: This licence is being issued for the scientific research application no. 1011. The goals of this research are to 1) collect and identify invertebrate fossils to correctly date the rocks the historic marine reptile fossils were collected from; and 2) to collect and identify any new vertebrate fossils found, in order to improve our knowledge of the diversity and evolution of Mesozoic marine repti...

Principal Investigator: Cumbaa, Stephen L
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2008 1997 1995
Summary: This research will examine 400 million years old rock with the hope to find fossilized skeletons of long-extinct fishes, and sample them for study to learn more about the early history and evolution of fish. Using rock hammers and chisels, sections of rock will be split to discover fossilized bones of fish. Samples will be taken for study and further preparation in the laboratory at the Canadian...

Principal Investigator: Williams, Christopher J
Licensed Year(s): 2005 2003
Summary: The objective of this project is to make detailed measurements of fossil plants that grew at high latitudes between 12 and 2 million years ago. The researchers will use these and previously obtained data to test the hypothesis that until about 28 million years ago arctic wetland forests were high biomass forests dominated by deciduous conifers, but by 12 million years aga, these were replaced by ...

Principal Investigator: Eberle, Jaelyn J
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2004 2003
Summary: Early Eocene (~55 million year-old) rocks of the Eureka Sound Group preserve a time when the Canadian High Arctic had a warm, temperate climate, and was home to reptiles and a diverse mammalian fauna. To date, the Eureka Sound fossil vertebrate fauna ha...

Principal Investigator: MacPhee, Ross E.E.
Licensed Year(s): 2004
Summary: The purpose of this project is to recover remains of ice-age mammals from Banks and Melville Islands, in order to determine when and for how long animals such as woolly mammoths managed to live in this part of the Arctic. There is suggestive but meager e...

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: Gajewski, Konrad
Licensed Year(s): 2008 2004 2001 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990
Summary: This ongoing project examines how vegetation has changed in response to changes in climate. I am using the history of vegetation, as recorded by the fossilized pollen that is present in lake sediments, to determine how vegetation in the arctic has changed over thousands of years. Fossilized pollen is collected by taking core samples from lake bottoms on Prince of Wales and Bathurst Islands. Pre...