NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Palmer, Mike
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5974. The specific research objectives are: 1) to implement a geologically-based classification scheme to group permafrost lake types for the range of biophysical environments encountered across the NWT; and 2) to determine whether these lake types can be distinguished by their physical and water chemistry characteristics....

Principal Investigator: Williams, Bill
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5939. Research questions seek to understand the impacts of global change on the physical and geochemical environment of the Beaufort Gyre (BG) Region in the Canada Basin of the Arctic Ocean and the corresponding biological response. We thus collect data annually so that we can link decadal-scale perturbations in the Arctic...

Principal Investigator: Reynolds, Merilie A
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5922. This research project will investigate the geological processes that formed the Prairie Creek zinc-lead-silver(-germanium) deposit. The goal is to better understand the environment of the ancient ocean where the rocks originally formed, the mountain-building processes that later deformed those rocks, and the nature o...

Principal Investigator: Alvarez, Alejandro
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5791. The objectives of this study are to (1) evaluate the geologic setting including geochemistry, and dating of sediments to establish a regional history of the area. (2) investigate the geologic setting of multiple buried, massive ice bodies. And (3) develop a geologic and hazards map along the ITH, highlighting feature...

Principal Investigator: Thiessen, Eric
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5816. This research will be guided by three objectives: 1) determine the largest possible contribution of mantle-derived heat sources, 2) establish a modern structural and tectono-metamorphic framework, and 3) evaluate evidence for mantle-derived heat input. Studies will involve field observations and targeted small-vo...

Principal Investigator: Gammon, Paul R
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5551. The overall objective of the research is to eventually determine the environmental chemistry of the elevated metal concentrations, which will in turn determine the environmental risk that these measured concentrations pose (i.e. will answer, at least in part, the questions: do these sites require remediation, and in w...

Principal Investigator: Blowes, David W.
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5492. The objective of this project is to characterize the geochemical evolution of the waste-rock contained in Pigeon waste-rock storage area to refine management solutions for this waste stream. The proposed research activities will involve field collection of Pigeon waste-rock samples and installation of monitoring eq...

Principal Investigator: Hamel, Emilienne
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5245. The objectives of this project are to contribute to the territorial government’s groundwater monitoring plan by establishing baseline conditions for solutes in the local groundwater around the solid waste facility. The research team aim to improve current groundwater vulnerability frameworks to account for anthropogen...

Principal Investigator: Groat, Lee A.
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5299. The main objectives of this fieldwork are to: 1) constrain the connection between the Niobium-Yttrium-Fluorine (NYF) and Lithium-Cesium-Tantalum (LCT) pegmatites; 2) assess the parental connections to the granite batholith which will provide insight into the evolution of melt over time, leading to a deeper understandi...

Principal Investigator: Cobbett, Rose
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4696. The objective is to use geochemistry (composition of rocks) and geochronology (dating of rocks) to characterize volcanic rocks in order to better understand the environment that they were formed in and in turn learn about the tectonic history of western North America through Paleozoic time (~541 - 252 Million years). ...