NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Pattenden, Rick
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: The field program will be conducted during three sampling periods (spring, summer and fall). Lakes and streams in the immediate vicinity of the potential mine site will be examined. Sampling techniques will include angling, snorkeling, backpack electrofishing, beach seining, minnow traps and gill netting for fish. Plankton nets and eckman dredges will be used to collect plankton and benthic mac...

Principal Investigator: Stubley, Michael
Licensed Year(s): 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990
Summary: The research team will examine, document and take samples of the surface outcrops (rocks) in the study area. This information will be recorded on a map which will summarize the geological rock types and mineral resources of the area....

Principal Investigator: Edwards, Thomas W.D.
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The proposed research is part of an ongoing program of hydrological studies in the north aimed at improving our understanding of how water cycles through natural drainage systems. This year, I will examine water evaporation on lakes and ponds that are located on mine sites: results from this research will aid in the design of better tailings impoundments containing mine wastes/contaminants....

Principal Investigator: Fletcher, W.K.
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The research will involve the collection of soil, lake sediments and waters. Soil and lake sediments will be sieved to give different size fractions (sand, silt, clay, etc.) and each fraction analyzed for gold to determine which size fraction is best to use in gold exploration....

Principal Investigator: Hogarth, D.D.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1992 1991
Summary: The research will continue to investigate the geology in and near the Countess of Sussex mines and investigate the mining methodology used by Martin Frobisher circa 1577....

Principal Investigator: Matthews, Steven
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The project will evaluate airborne RADAR data as well as Landsat TM and SPOT satellite data to distinguish vegetation cover types of the tundra near Baker Lake. Detailed vegetation surveys will be carried out in the field. The data will be used to classify vegetation cover types and in accuracy assessment. Wildlife habitat types will be based on the resultant classification and produced as mapped ...

Principal Investigator: Fitzhugh, William
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991 1990
Summary: The Research project, begun in 1990, will survey the Frobisher sites at Kodlunarn Island, explore Frobisher's mines and other possible sites and study Inuit sites dating from before, during and after the Frobisher contact period....

Principal Investigator: d'Entremont, Andre
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990
Summary: A sampling program will be undertaken where sediment and benthic organisms will be collected at six sites sampled in 1985. The samples will be analysed to determine if any statistically significant changes in the sediment chemistry and species diversity and abundance have occurred since the mine began operation in 1985....

Principal Investigator: Demmer, Marianne
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher will conduct interviews with key people involved in the events that have occurred to date in the environmental assessment review process of the proposed Kiggavik uranium mine. She will identify the concerns and interests of people in the communities involved and separate the shades of opinion held by various groups....

Principal Investigator: Sekerak, Aaron D.
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher and his assistant will obtain information on fish in the area so that potential impacts of mining in the region can be assessed....