NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Gowman, Joel A
Licensed Year(s): 2008
Summary: The research is focused on accelerating the remediation of Federal Contaminated Sites Action Program (FCSAP) on Victoria Island. The research focuses on determining the remaining risks at the sites and developing a plan to address those risks. There will be an environmental site assessment which involves the collection of soil, sediment, water, and materials (a detailed explanation of the sampl...

Principal Investigator: Wiatzka, Gerd M
Licensed Year(s): 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005
Summary: This licence is being issued for the scientific research application # 845. SENES will be carrying out the sampling for the Contaminants and Remediation Directorate (CARD) of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) at the abandoned Great Bear Lake mine sites in the Sahtu region. Sampling will be taken to determine remediation objectives for metal concentrations in soil. The ultimate objectiv...

Principal Investigator: Seccombe-Hett, Pippa
Licensed Year(s): 2008
Summary: The objectives of the sump monitoring activities are to gain further knowledge of long-term sump integrity and sump monitoring techniques while addressing both the commitments of the Mallik Gas Hydrate Project and the recommendations from site surveys. Active layer depth will be measured to determine differences between sumps and undisturbed areas. Ground temperature will be recorded. Ground co...

Principal Investigator: Berry, Dan
Licensed Year(s): 2007
Summary: The purpose of the Unipkat I-22 Phase II Environmental Site Assessment is to identify contaminates and their concentrations, as well as to delineate the extent of any contamination at this historic drilling sump site. The Unipkat I-22 Phase II ESA is designed to gain the maximum amount of site data. Potential contaminants of concern will be identified during the historical file review, but it i...

Principal Investigator: Wiatzka, Gerd M
Licensed Year(s): 2007 2006
Summary: The project objectives include the collection of information and samples to characterize the environmental conditions at the sites. The types of samples to be collected include: water (8 samples), sediment (5 samples), soil/tailings/waste rock (5 samples) and designated substances (e.g., asbestos, lead paint, PCBs, hydrocarbons). The work involves manual sampling and measurement with minimal d...

Principal Investigator: Sampson, Jack
Licensed Year(s): 2007
Summary: The purpose of this project is to conduct debris clean up and further environmental assessment of the drilling sumps at the Taglu D-43 and G-33 well sites, as a follow-up to the 2004 limited investigation to confirm sump contents are appropriately contained. Furthermore, at the G-33 site, previously reported hydrocarbon stained soil will be removed and debris will be cleaned up at the Ivik J-26 we...

Principal Investigator: Borsy, Emily Jane E
Licensed Year(s): 2008 2007
Summary: The objective of this research is to obtain primary information about the gravel situation in the ISR from a variety of industry perspectives. The researchers wish to fill in a gap in information linking supply and demand to community stress and vulnerability, obtaining this information through interviews with industry professionals. The research will be conducted in two stages. The first sta...

Principal Investigator: Skelton, Jennifer
Licensed Year(s): 2007
Summary: The Northwest Territories contains numerous unique landforms known as karst topography. The objective of this study is to know the locations and characteristics of karst sites in the Sahtu, providing information for environmental assessment of future developments and for land-use planning. Karst topography is an unique landform; the environmental impacts on the land and water of various land uses...

Principal Investigator: Chiperzak, Doug
Licensed Year(s): 2006
Summary: Biophysical and heritage resource surveys will take place in late summer and fall, and contribute to the assessment of a potential development projects (the Tuk 2 M-18 well site and connecting pipeline to Parsons Lake and the Mackenzie Gas Pipeline) located in the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula, about 12 km southeast of Tuktoyaktuk and 125 km northeast of Inuvik. The field assessment will involve four s...

Principal Investigator: Mueller, Thea
Licensed Year(s): 2006
Summary: The research aims to understand First Nations’ perspectives of large-scale industrial projects, such as the Mackenzie Gas Project. The three objectives of the research project centre on discovering: how people talk about development projects in the public and private spheres; if and how thinking about industrialization in the North varies between different social groups (e.g., by age, employment s...