NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Christoffersen, Poul
Licensed Year(s): 2006 2005
Summary: The objective of this project is to investigate the geologic character of lake sediments in the deep sections of Great Slave Lake using geophysical survey techniques. This project plans on surveying with a Geopulse sub-bottom profiler. This system is mounted on a catamaran sled, which is towed by a small boat. A boomer plate transmits acoustic signals at regular intervals while a string of hydroph...

Principal Investigator: LAURIOL, Bernard
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The researchers will map the types of rock and landforms of Akpatok Island using information collected from air photographs as well as data collected during the site visit. Samples of rock will be collected for further analysis. Interpretation of this information may provide clues as to the island's long-term history....

Principal Investigator: Bell, Trevor
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1990 1988
Summary: This study will provide a better understanding of permafrost conditions in the high arctic as well as the environmental conditions that lead to permafrost formation. Study sites include the Fosheim Peninsula on Ellesmere Island and May Point and Mokka Fiord on eastern Axel Heiberg Island....

Principal Investigator: Smith, Rod
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992
Summary: This study concerns the overall evolution of the Lake Hazen Basin during the last glacial and deglacial cycle. It will emphasize the eastern end of the Lake Hazen Basin where prominent moraine systems exist along with former lacustrine deltas, exposed lake sediments and small lakes suitable for coring....

Principal Investigator: Retelle, Michael J.
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: This study will investigate how glaciers retreat in marine waters through the analysis of the sedimentary record in front of modern tidewater glaciers. The research will determine the critical factors such as valley morphology, water depth, climatic and glaciological conditions that have influenced the retreat of the marine margin of the Grinnell Glacier since its last advance during the Litte Ice...

Principal Investigator: Davis, P. Thompson
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1990
Summary: The Researchers will continue to map and survey glacial abrasion limits, collect, describe and analyze soil samples from the Pangnirtung Pass and Pangnirtung Fiord areas to determine the direction and vertical extent of ice flow....

Principal Investigator: Gilbert, Robert
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991 1990 1988
Summary: The Researcher will use a special type of echo sounder to determine the depth of the water and the thickness of the sediments beneath down to bedrock. The instrument also shows the patterms of sediment distribution around the fiord. From this, an assessment can be made of where the sediment has come from, how much there is and how the patterns of sedimentation have changed during the entire perio...

Principal Investigator: Shaw, John
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: An investigation of the mechanics of sedimentation in the Pangnirtung Fiord and a study of glacial sediments....

Principal Investigator: Nelson, Alan
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: Wave cut cliffs will be described in terms of their stratigraphy and samples collected for dating and classification of the sediments for the glacial stratigraphy of the Kivitauba'k foreland...

Principal Investigator: Nason, Jeremy
Licensed Year(s): 1976
Summary: 1) Conventional survey of glacier, 2) To take ablation measurements, 3) To take water discharge measurements, 4) To measure suspended materials and bed load movements 5) To make meteorological observations....