NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: van der Sanden, Josephus J
Licensed Year(s): 2017 2012 2010 2009
Summary: To investigate the potential of Canada’s RADARSAT satellites as a tool for the collection of information on (change in) river ice conditions and, during spring breakup, flood conditions in the Mackenzie River Delta. Canada’s RADARSAT satellites have been tasked to acquire images over the Mackenzie Delta since October 2008 to present. Regular data acquisitions will continue into 2010. To facili...

Principal Investigator: Murton, Julian B
Licensed Year(s): 1999 1998
Summary: The main objective of the proposed research is to establish the origin of massive bodies of underground ice at two key massive-ice localities in the Mackenzie Delta area: i) Cliff Point, Liverpool Bay and (ii) near Eskimo Lakes. The research will be carried out by an interdisciplinary team of scientists examining the geology, glaciology and chemistry of the ice and adjacent sediments. The research...

Principal Investigator: Sharp, Martin
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: Measurements of the glacier's surface will be taken using ground surveys and radio echo sounding. In addition, data will be collected on the amounts of snow accumulation and meltwater run-off as well as the chemistry of the snow, water and ice. This information will provide us with a better understanding of glaciers in terms of their growth/shrinkage, contribution of water to the local environme...

Principal Investigator: Gregor, Dennis J.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993
Summary: Ice caps have been used to measure changes in the chemistry of the atmosphere over long periods of time. The studies have addressed climate change, levels of pollutants resulting from human activities, and levels of materials put into the atmosphere by natural processes (e.g., volcano eruptions). This on-going study has been examining the levels of contaminants in ice caps since 1986 by collecti...

Principal Investigator: Ecclestone, Miles
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1991 1990 1988 1987
Summary: The Researcher and team will take measurements of the accumulation of snow on the glaciers and try to acertain how much snow and ice has been lost or gained since it was measured in 1989. Acidity in Colour Lake will be studied. They will also monitor any impacts their activity has had on the wetland through which the lake drains....

Principal Investigator: Pollard, Wayne H
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1992 1991 1990 1988
Summary: Dr. Pollard and Mark Hinton are examining the characteristics of glacier ice buried at the snout of Thompson Glacier in order to compare this ice with certain ground ice deposits located in the Mackenzie Delta and Yukon Coastal Plain areas....