NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Pinard, Jean-Paul
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2009 2008 2007
Summary: This licence is being issued for the scientific research application no. 1279. The objective of this wind monitoring proposal is to quantify the wind energy potential for the economic feasibility of building a wind farm in Norman Wells, a remote community that is dependant on gas-electric generation. The wind monitoring equipment was installed in September 2008 and this site will continue to...

Principal Investigator: Schertzer, William M.
Licensed Year(s): 2009 2008
Summary: This licence is being issued for the scientific research application No.1100. The four main objectives of this research are: 1) to conduct observations on Great Bear Lake to measure meteorology, heat fluxes, and physical limnological components; 2) to model the thermal structure of Great Bear Lake under current climate and climate changed conditions; 3) to quantify the variability in the meteor...

Principal Investigator: Stocks, Brian J
Licensed Year(s): 2007
Summary: The research aims to characterize the physical and chemical properties of forest fire smoke and its impact on the Artic. Three aircraft (CT-133 jet, Dehavilland Sea Heron and Dehavilland Twin Otter) based out of Yellowknife, equipped with standard scientific atmospheric chemistry sampling instrumentation, will be used to sample smoke while airborne. Sampling will take place opportunistically as fi...

Principal Investigator: Rouse, Wayne R
Licensed Year(s): 2006 2005 2004
Summary: The objectives of the research are to: pursue temperature and energy balance studies on Great Bear Lake; determine if Great Bear Lake’s climate behaves like that of Great Slave Lake, or if its unique geographical position and physical attributes make it distinctive; and to explore the temperature structure of the atmosphere above Great Bear Lake and link this with heat and moisture exchanges betwe...

Principal Investigator: Kah, Linda
Licensed Year(s): 1998
Summary: Our goals will be achieved through a multidisciplinary study integrating depositional, diagenetic, and geochemical information into a single comprehensive framework. Over a single field season we will measure stratigraphic thickness of outcrops in the Dismal Lakes Group, Coppermine homocline, NWT and collect small (hand sized) samples from a wide range of different rock types that represent differ...

Principal Investigator: Gregor, Dennis J.
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: Contaminants are carried in the air to the arctic during the winter when large-scale wind movements bring these contaminants from industrialized locations in North America, Europe and Asia to the north. Snow can collect these compounds from the air and bring them to the ground where they can accumulate. Thus, it is important to study the amount of contaminants in snow to determine the types and ...

Principal Investigator: Olson, John V.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The Norman Wells Observatory has demonstrated to be a very good site to place a remote aurora monitoring observatory to support a scientific experiment called SPIRIT II. For this project, the researchers will continue to investigate the aurora's strength and position, magnetic disturbances etc. The observatory at Norman Wells fills a gap in the internationally collected and shared auroral data se...