NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Jones, Timothy
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990
Summary: The Research team will continue work begun in 1990 to carry out a resource evaluation of the Bluenose Lake area. A national park has been proposed for the area. Before land can be set aside as a park reserve an assessment of non-renewable (oil, gas, minerals) resource potential is required....

Principal Investigator: Dredge, Linda
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher and her assistant will map the terrain and take soil and rock samples for laboratory studies....

Principal Investigator: Bell, Trevor
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1990 1988
Summary: This research is an extension of previous fieldwork completed in 1988 and 1989. Mapping surficial deposits and reconstructing former ice limits and sea level adjustments, investigations of landforms and associated sediments, collection and dating of organic material pertaining to terrestrial and raised marine deposits, and mapping distributions of glacial erratics will be undertaken....

Principal Investigator: Falck, Hendrik
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher and his assistant will visit all known gold and mineral resource occurances in the Yellowknife area. The area immediately around the showing will be mapped as to rock types, structures and mineral resources. Samples are returned to town and analyzed for chemcials and minerals....

Principal Investigator: Dixon, O.A.
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: To conduct geological mapping, measurement of stratigraphic sections (rock layering) and collection of rock and fossil samples for future lab analysis and cataloguing....

Principal Investigator: Burwash, R.A.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To conduct a geological mapping program and collect rock specimens for subsequent laboratory analysis....

Principal Investigator: Lind, Evelyn K.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To study the recent geological plant and animal life and their environment. Surface mapping will be done and representative rock and fossil samples will be collected for future study and dating....

Principal Investigator: Dixon, O.A.
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To obtain further understanding of the geological history of the Somerset-Cornwallis Islands region. Field work includes limited geological mapping, measurement of stratigraphic sections and the collection of rock and fossil specimens for further laboratory and analysis....

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....