NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Smith, Derald
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Dr. Smith and his two students are trying to find out the extent of a glacial lake that once stretched from the Redstone River to Fort Good Hope. They are collecting samples of ancient, buried plant material from river cutbanks to see how old these deposits are and to determine what kinds of plants once grew along the western shores of the lake long ago....

Principal Investigator: Scheibli, Frank
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Frank Scheibli and Alex Wolfe are part of Dr. King's research party working on the Truelove Lowlands. They are sampling the waters of three larger lakes to record depths, temperatures, and chemical properties. They want to know how these things affect the formation of sediments on the bottom of the lake....

Principal Investigator: Adams, Peter
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1991 1990 1988 1987
Summary: To continue carrying out mass balance measurements on White Glacier, Axel Heiberg Island, NWT; to continue investigating the limnology of Colour Lake during the open water season....

Principal Investigator: Stavinga, Janet M.
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To assess the chemical composition of arctic tundra ponds and atmospheric inputs including anthropogenic contamination in the vicinity of Iglolik, NWT by the collection and the analysis of surface water and sediment samples during the summer of 1987. In addition, precipitation samples will be collected....

Principal Investigator: Adams, Peter
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To do work on Colour Lake and to study the mass balance of the White Glacier....

Principal Investigator: Dickman, Mike
Licensed Year(s): 1982
Summary: Chemical and Biological sampling and studies of two meromictic lakes (permanently stratified lakes no water turnover)....