NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Woodman, David
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: The research team will investigate stories told to Charles Francis Hall in 1879 about the Franklin expedition. Supunger told Hall about a vault sealed with "all look like stone"....

Principal Investigator: Auger, Reginald
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The researcher will conduct archaeological research on Kodlunarn Island in order to better understand the Frobisher voyages. Excavation at the Frobisher base camp will provide information on the nature of these voyages as well as their influence on Inuit of the region....

Principal Investigator: Fitzhugh, William
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991 1990
Summary: As the final year in a four year study, the team of American and Canadian archaeologists and geologists will survey the outer Frobisher Bay region for sites that were occupied by Inuit at the time of the Frobisher expeditions (1576-1578). The data collected may determine what kinds of contact occurred between early English explorers and miners and the Inuit of the area. Licence issued for use of...

Principal Investigator: MacDonald, John
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1991
Summary: The expedition journals kept by W.E. Parry during his visits to the Northern Foxe Basin during 1821-1823 will be organized, excerpted and annotated under approximately 100 thematic headings and sub-headings. These journals provide the earliest written records of the area. The project will emphasize Inuit ethnology but will include geography, toponymy, biology, climatology and geology....

Principal Investigator: Weber, Richard
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The Expedition members will ski to the North Pole carrying supplies in backpacks and sleds. Having reached the Pole they will retrace their steps back to Ward Hunt Island. They will collect data (snow and blood samples; fitness levels; sleep activity; stress levels) for several scientists during their trip....

Principal Investigator: Viren, Tom
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: Mr. Lonnie Dupre, Mr. Malcolm Vance and Mr. Jon Nierenburg will collect snow and plant material samples on behalf of Mr. Derik Muir, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada and Mr. Dan Jaffe, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks....

Principal Investigator: Beattie, Owen B.
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990
Summary: The Researchers will continue to investigate the cirucumstances surrounding the loss of the James Knight expedition of 1719. They will conduct an analysis of human and artifact remains recovered from the excavation of a house structure built by Knight and his men on Quartzite Island....

Principal Investigator: Newman, Janice
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will train 4 polar trekkers on performance tests and how to apply an electrocap (electrodes housed in a mesh cap). The participants will apply these techniques as they engage in a practice trek around the Iqaluit area....

Principal Investigator: Beattie, Owen B.
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: The project involved a multi-disciplinary approach to an important Canadian historical problem: the identification of the fate of the third Franklin Expedition....

Principal Investigator: Blackett-Ord, Benjamin James
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: A glaciological expedition...