NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Gong, Zheng
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5354. The research team aim to conduct a detailed paleomagnetic study of the 2.7-billion-year-old Kam Group at the Giant section, ~ 5 km north of the city of Yellowknife. The intention of the project is to constrain the paleogeographic location of the Slave craton in the Archean and its relationship with other coexisting cr...

Principal Investigator: Field, James Colin
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5022. The purpose of the study is to identify reasons, moments, experiences, and conditions that have led NWT community school teaching principals to stay in their positions in small, remote NWT communities. The proposed study will engage a group of small school, rural and remote teaching principals in the NWT who have rema...

Principal Investigator: Brown, Jennifer M
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5336. The purpose of the Wetland Delineation Study is to define the flow paths of effluent from the treatment lagoon to Great Slave Lake and thereby inform sampling design of the Great Slave Lake Monitoring Program. The objectives of the Wetland Delineation are varied and, based on available documentation, we understand the...

Principal Investigator: Kheyrollah Pour, Homa
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5335. This proposed research is directed at understanding the impact of current/future climate warming on subarctic lake ecosystems. The aim is to explore the relationship of seasonal lake ice growth/ablation and water quality across a wide range of lake characteristics (size, volume, productivity, catchment characteristics...

Principal Investigator: Chin, Krista
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5328. The objective of this project is to collect water quality data from regionally-representative lakes that can inform resource management decisions on cumulative impacts within the Northwest Territories (NWT). Using a computer program the research team will select 30 lakes within the Daring Lake area based on expect...

Principal Investigator: Fix, Andreas
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5211. This project will use aircraft-based instruments using both remote-sensing and in-situ-techniques to carry out measurements of methane and carbon trace gases and tracers related to their emissions. The results will help to better understand the global methane and carbon cycle. This mission makes use of the German r...

Principal Investigator: Merchant, Michael A
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5290. This project aims to develop and use computer-based methods to produce wetland maps using satellite imagery; to conduct overhead field surveys to calibrate and validate the accuracy of the produced wetland maps; Produce user friendly documents describing the wetland maps and their wetland classes throughout the Tlicho...

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: Sinclair, Sean
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5302. There are two objectives: 1) determine if installing an aerator in Frame Lake, Yellowknife, NT, will increase dissolved oxygen levels in the lake such that fish can be reintroduced; and 2) if phase 1 proves successful, transfer fish into Frame Lake and monitor growth and reproduction to determine if the population is ...

Principal Investigator: McGeer, Jim
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5300. The objectives of the project are to develop data on the aquatic toxicology of rare earth elements in northern ecosystems and to contribute to water quality criteria for these metals. Three types of sample collections are proposed: 1) Water samples of approximately 0.5 L will be collected in pre-cleaned bottles ...