NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Edinger, Evan N
Licensed Year(s): 2001 2000
Summary: The research team will examine the detailed structure, sedimentology and paleoecology of reefs in Mercy Bay. Transportation by fixed-wing aircraft to Polar Bear cabin near Castel Bay will be followed by helicopter transport to various field sites (East Branch Mercy River; Lower Mercy River; Southern Patch reefs; Princess Royal Islands; Hay Point, Victoria Island; Gordon Point, Victoria Island). ...

Principal Investigator: Day, Edith
Licensed Year(s): 2001
Summary: The research team will be flown from Norman Wells to the base camp at Moose Horn River by helicopter. Moves to fly camps (Stoneknife River and Black Wolf Creek) will also be made by helicopter. The camp will consist of one sleeping tent per team member and one cooking tent. The research team will walk to data collection sites on foot. Data collection will consist of measuring rocks with a rule...

Principal Investigator: Batten, Kelly
Licensed Year(s): 2001
Summary: The research team will be flown from Norman Wells to the base camp at Haycook Lake by float plane. Moves to fly camps will be made by helicopter. The camp will consist of one sleeping tent per team member and one cooking tent. The research team will walk to data collection sites on foot. Data collection will consist of measuring rocks with a ruler, taking photographs, and collecting up to 50 s...

Principal Investigator: McIntosh, George
Licensed Year(s): 2000
Summary: This research involves how groups of marine invertebrate fossils, crinoids evolved over a 6 million year interval designated as the Frasnian Stage. The researcher will study the rock exposures along the Mackenzie Highway between Hay River/Enterprise and Fort Simpson. The fossils to be collected rarely exceed 3 cm and collecting will be restricted to weathered surfaces composed of loose material. ...

Principal Investigator: MacNaughton, Robert B.
Licensed Year(s): 1998 1997
Summary: The research has two aims: 1) to examine the unit of rock called the Backbone Ranges Formation and 2) to examine the unit of rock known as the Twitya Formation which are several hundred million years old. Members of the field party will be transported to base camp by helicopter. Base-camp moves will also be done by helicopter. All ground work is to be done on foot. Data is collected through photog...

Principal Investigator: Cumbaa, S.L.
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2008 1997 1995
Summary: We plan to conduct geological and paleontological exploration and research, checking Devonian-age rocks exposed along a 1-2 km stretch of the Anderson River to look for bones and scales of fossil fish contained within the rocks. These rocks, and the fossils within them, are approximately 400 million years old. In 1995, we discovered bones of a primitive lungfish (an ancient, lobe-finned, air-bre...

Principal Investigator: Narbonne, Guy
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: Study 800 million year old fossil reefs near Wynniatt Bay on Victoria Island. Will fly to the site using Polar Shelf Twin-Otter aircraft. Measurements and pictures will be taken of the rocks and about 100 kg of rock samples will be collected with a hammer. The rock samples will be studied back at the university....

Principal Investigator: Durham, J. Wyatt
Licensed Year(s): 1995 1990
Summary: The researchers will collect specimens of fossil molluscs exposed in critical areas. This involves simply breaking rocks loose from their location. No excavation deeper than 1 foot is contemplated. Localities will be marked on topographic maps and measurements of sections exposed in river banks will be made. Analysis will be completed in California. Significant specimens will be returned to t...

Principal Investigator: Butterfield, N.J.
Licensed Year(s): 1996 1994
Summary: The researcher will conduct helicopter-based field work out of Norman Wells. This research will entail the documentation and collection of Mount Cap Formation Rocks (shales for fossils and biomarker geochemistry, limestone for isotope geochemistry). Much of the palaentology will be labratory-based, using acid extraction techniques on very small samples. The documented material will be stored and c...

Principal Investigator: LePage, Ben A.
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: The researcher will begin a preliminary paleontological investigation of Permain age (about 250 million years old) sediments of the Sabine Bay Formation and the fossil plants contained within these deposits. The plants recovered will be identified and compared to Permain floras from Russia, Greenland, and Europe. Localities yielding interesting or well-preserved specimens will provide a basis for...