NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Morell Ybarz, Maria
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5876. The aim of this study is to identify and quantify the effects of noise on hearing in cetaceans in the Arctic. Ears of harvested belugas in Hendrickson Island will be used to determine if the individuals suffered a hearing impairment, and if it is compatible with noise exposure. (1) After the head and lower jaws ha...

Principal Investigator: Fichot, Cedric
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5611. The primary objective of this funded project is to develop a sophisticated model that can simulate the mobilization, transport, transformations, and export of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon (tDOC) from the Mackenzie River watershed to the Arctic Ocean. The model will be used to simulate the transfer of tDOC dur...

Principal Investigator: Whalen, Dustin JR
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2018 2017
Summary: The primary objective is to provide the means to improve the knowledge of physical conditions in the Arctic coastal zone in order to help government agencies, corporations and local residents understand mitigate and reduce the impacts of climate driven changes. This research has 3 targeted objectives: 1) to gain a better understanding of coastal permafrost; 2) to provide and updated assessment of ...

Principal Investigator: Haugaard, Rasmus RH
Licensed Year(s): 2013 2012
Summary: In the previous year, research work were started on some of the new occurrences of 2.9 - 2.6 Ga old banded iron formations in the NWT. This opened an exceptional opportunity to study ocean chemistry directly preceding the Great Oxidization Event (GOE). In this regard, the research group has been engaged with the Northwest Territories Geoscience Office (NTGO) to undertake field and laboratory studi...

Principal Investigator: Narbonne, Guy
Licensed Year(s): 2001 1999 1998 1996 1994 1992 1991 1989 1988
Summary: This study looks at aspects of the earth's history. The Ice Brook Formation in the Mackenzie Mountains and the Sheepbed formation are rock units that will be studied. Members of the field party will be transported to base camps by helicopter and camp moves will be done by helicopter. Ground work is to be done on foot. Data is collected through photography of rock outcrops, measurement of stratigra...

Principal Investigator: Kah, Linda
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993
Summary: Stromatolites are variously shaped mounds or reefs composed of sediments and the fossilized remains of single-celled marine organisms called blue-green algae. There are massive fossil reefs located on Baffin Island which are some of the largest known of their age. By studying the structure, form and chemical make-up of these reefs, information about the ancient ocean and the growth of ancient re...

Principal Investigator: Moore, Robert M.
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992
Summary: Initiated in 1989, the aim of the project is to estimate how important is the ocean as a source of organic bromine to the Arctic atmosphere, and secondarily to further our knowledge of the origin of a range of halocarbons in the ocean....

Principal Investigator: Melling, Humfrey
Licensed Year(s): 1988 1987
Summary: To improve understanding of the role which wintertime freezing over the Mackenzie Shelf of the Beaufort Sea plays in maintaining the peculiar cold halocline of the Arctic Ocean...

Principal Investigator: Perkin, Ron G.
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To begin monitoring of the temperature and salinity of upper layers of the Arctic Ocean using a self recording package with conductivity and temperature sensors suspended under the ice....

Principal Investigator: Pounder, E.R.
Licensed Year(s): 1982
Summary: Ocean current readings at various depths and profiles of conductivity - temperature and depth....