NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Terlaky, Viktor
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5283. This research study aims to fill the existing knowledge gaps about the Imperial Formation, including its regional sedimentology and stratigraphy (what types of rocks do we see regionally; how do they change vertically and laterally), ichnology and paleontology (what kind of fossils/traces do we see in the rocks). Addi...

Principal Investigator: Mamet, Steve D
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5282. Objectives of this research project are to determine: 1) the status of permafrost landforms; 2) long-term recovery after abandonment of the CANOL No. 1 project, including oil spills and gravel pits; and, 3) the status of treeline. The research team will be examining the permafrost by thaw depth probing, and automat...

Principal Investigator: Rudolph, David
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5240. Within the Central Mackenzie Valley of the Northwest Territories (NWT), discontinuity and rapid change within the regional permafrost is anticipated to be influencing landscape, habitat and ecosystem characteristics along with presenting challenges for the stability of constructed infrastructure. Mapping the nature an...

Principal Investigator: Somers, Gila L
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4762. Water Quality Monitoring equipment is deployed at over 40 sites across the NWT to address community concerns. Community members were trained to use the following equipment: • Sondes: sit in the water and measure basic water quality parameters every 2 hours for up to 3 months. Analysis undertaken at Environment and...

Principal Investigator: Stoker, Benjamin James
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5163. In this project the research team aim to investigate the meltwater drainage and deglacial history of the Laurentide Ice Sheet from the eastern slopes of the Mackenzie Mountains since the last ice age. The research team will reconstruct the past meltwater flow characteristics (discharge and velocity) through a series o...

Principal Investigator: Smith, Sharon S
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
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: Gall, Patrick N.
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5158. The goal of this project is to verify that wind LiDaR technology has reached a suitable maturity that it can be used in place of a meteorological tower to perform wind resource assessment in subarctic and arctic conditions. The study will use an existing NRG 60m Meteorological tower located in Norman Wells, and a ...

Principal Investigator: Chiperzak, Doug
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5060. The goal is to collect baseline fish, fish habitat and hydrotechnical data for selected watercourses along the proposed Mackenzie Valley Highway to support engineering design and the regulatory process. Fish habitat will be assessed along 100 m reaches upstream and downstream of each potential watercourse crossing....

Principal Investigator: Dares, Matthew J
Licensed Year(s): 2020 2019 2018
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4692. The objective of this wind monitoring proposal is to develop further insight into the wind energy potential for the economic feasibility of building a wind farm in Norman Wells, a remote community that is dependent on gas-electric generation. A 60m meteorological tower will be installed in September 2018. This towe...

Principal Investigator: Kelly, Holly
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4568. The study will document natural variations in the surface water conditions within the Exploration License (EL 494) area and monitor potential impact of oil and gas exploration activities. Surface Water Quality Sample Collection: Surface water samples will be collected from selected sampling locations targeted near...