NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Pollard, Wayne H
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To complete a three year study concerned with the detailed investigation of ground ice characteristics by mapping ground ice distribution and stratigraphic relations along with collection of sediment and ice samples for grain, size, moisture content, isotope and crystallographic analysis. Field investigation will utilize existing ground ice slumps and permafrost exposures along coastal bluffs in ...

Principal Investigator: French, Hugh
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To conduct permafrost and geomorphological studies....

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: 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: Wankiewicz, Anthony
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To study permafrost near Arctic streams at sites near Inuvik and several locations in the Keewatin. This study is to provide baseline information on coupled heat-transfer processes relevant to cold gas pipeline stream crossings. The ground temperature will be monitored at stream cross sections at the different sites....