NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Burn, Chris R
Licensed Year(s): 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991
Summary: The purpose is to collect samples of ground ice and to measure air, ground, and lake temperatures. We use the information to help understand how the permafrost in the area has changed in the last few thousands years, in order to determine what might happen in the future....

Principal Investigator: Robinson, Stephen
Licensed Year(s): 1996 1995
Summary: Research will be conducted in a fen-bog complex approximately 5 km west of Fort Simpson. Gas samples will be obtained using portable chambers and later analyzed using gas chromotography. Cores will be collected using a peat corer and a modified ice auger. Peat temperatures, water levels, plant growth rates and water chemistry will also be measured. Geophysical mapping using ground penetrating ...

Principal Investigator: Tarnocai, Charles
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: Soil (at seven depths) and air temperature data are recorded by data loggers. These loggers are programmed to collect data every 3 hours on the hour. The sites are visited twice a year to reprogram the loggers. In addition, active layer depth and subsidence are also recorded during the fall visit. Researchers will collect this data in order to determine the effect of climate change on the envi...

Principal Investigator: Lewkowicz, Antoni G
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1988 1987
Summary: The aim of this ongoing research is to establish links between climate and the movements of soil. By collecting this type of data, it may be possible to determine the effect that climate changes may have on the movements of soil down slopes, into rivers and eventually into the sea. The project has been underway for several years because soil movements are mostly slow and therefore difficult to mea...

Principal Investigator: King, Roger H.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1992 1991 1990 1988
Summary: This is a continuation of a long-term study of the record of past environmental changes preserved in the sediments of the Truelove Lowland. Sediment traps that were placed in Immerk & Loon Lake will be removed & analyzed. Also the temperature & moisture conditions of soil surrounding Fish Lake will be monitored and samples will be collected....

Principal Investigator: Dallimore, Scott R
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1993 1992 1992 1991
Summary: Measurements of slope and ground temperature will be collected at three sites located east of Tuktoyaktuk and on northern Richards Island. Selection of the sites will be determined in the field but are expected to be at a location south of Gruben's fish camp in Eskimo Lakes and at the west end of Richards Island at North Head....

Principal Investigator: Solomon, Steven M
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher and his team will use a hand-operated auger to take sediment cores and temperature measurements. Cores will penetrate the seabed beneath the ice to a depth of 2-3 metres. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) will be used to investigate ground ice distribution and a current meter will be used to measure sub-ice currents along the edge of the bottom-fast ice....

Principal Investigator: Hyatt, James A.
Licensed Year(s): 1990 1989 1988 1987
Summary: 1. To examine, photograph, sample, and relate subsurface and surface expressions of ground ice and permafrost. 2. To sample sediment and ground ice found in the new Pangnirtung reservoir and along any natural exposures. 3. To collect unconsolidated sediment and ice core samples at the selected field sites. 4. To implant shallow thermal probes at the selected field sites...

Principal Investigator: King, Lorenz
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: Establishment of meterorology station at their base camp. Geodetic surveying of slopes, push moraines and raised beaches; mapping of same. Hammer seismic measurments, ground and rock temperature measurements, digging for radiocarbon and palynological samples in raised beaches and moraines, mapping of old Eskimo sites and general observations of plants and wildlife....

Principal Investigator: Wankiewicz, Anthony
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To study permafrost near Arctic streams at sites near Inuvik and several locations in the Keewatin. This study is to provide baseline information on coupled heat-transfer processes relevant to cold gas pipeline stream crossings. The ground temperature will be monitored at stream cross sections at the different sites....