NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Mackay, J.R.
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To do continuing research to understand the origin of permafrost, the ice within permafrost and the processes that help create the present geocryologic environment....

Principal Investigator: Butler, R.W.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To examine the compatibility of hydrocarbon development and the tourist industry and related resources in the Mackenzie Delta and surrounding area....

Principal Investigator: Tucker, Nigel
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: (1) To examine the "state-of-the-art" regarding site selection techniques for energy facilities. (2) To visit some of the locations which have previously been identified as potential shorebase sites....

Principal Investigator: Lehn, W.H.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To investigate optical refraction in the lower layers of the atmosphere (anomalous refraction, such as the superior mirage and optical ducting). Photographic recording of land forms and their refracted images: measurement of refraction and horizon shift; some measurement of atmospheric temperatures in the lowest layers (10-15 meters); local surveys of the photographed land forms....

Principal Investigator: Hutchinson, Tom
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To continue a study of the effects of acid fumes (Smoking Hills) on land and water vegetation. Soil samples will be collected for future lab analysis. Oil spill sites will also be revisited and monitored....

Principal Investigator: Hastings, Ross
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To study the area to determine how the climate affects the vegetation and how the vegetation in turn encourages certain types of small animal habitation....

Principal Investigator: Yoshie, Fumio
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To undertake a study of the tundra biomass (general vegetation) as part of a larger study on permafrost....

Principal Investigator: Smith, Daniel W.
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: To sample treated and untreated domestic water supplies for physical and chemical analysis, (e.g. turbidity, color, temperature and trace elements analysis, e.g. lead, zinc, silver and cadmium)....

Principal Investigator: Luch, Stephen R.
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To conduct a broad study of the biological and physical components of pingos....

Principal Investigator: Sherstone, David A.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To acquire aerial photography of hydrologic characteristics of ice break-up and movement in the Mackenzie and lower Liard Rivers. To acquire photography of river break-up and environmentally sensitive areas along the proposed Arctic Islands pipeline route from Churchill to Spence Bay. To acquire photography of specific glaciology research sites throughout the Arctic Islands (with emphasis on the...