Regions: South Slave Region
Tags: sediment chemistry, sediment, geomorphology, ground truth survey, delta floodplain
| Principal Investigator: | English, Michael C (25) |
| Licence Number: | 12790 |
| Organization: | Cold Regions Research Centre |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2000
1996
1995
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| Issued: | Jan 01, 1995 |
| Project Team: | M. Stone, B. Hill, R. Ormson, S. Fassnacht |
Objective(s): The first objective involves groundtruthing landforms and channel forms which have significantly changed since 1977. The second objective is to collect sediment from different landforms to compare particle size distribution and chemistry with the river suspended sediment. Third, to sample suspended sediment and monitor discharge and determine gradient in the channels to produce a model for understanding the movement of sediment within the delta channels.
Project Description: The researchers will examine three things. The first is areas of landform change since 1977. Landforms will be surveyed and sediment sampled in order to measure how much sand, silt and clay are in the deposits. Second, the researchers will analyze the sediment for different chemicals wihich originate from the Slave River and third, measure the elevations of channels along their entire length, measure discharge and sample the suspended sediment in the channels.
