NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Schroder-Adams, Claudia J.
Licensed Year(s): 2012
Summary: The main objective of this research project is to improve the stratigraphic framework of the Cretaceous Western Interior Sea region and the understanding of the paleoenvironmental setting of a Cretaceous aged oceanographic gateway between the Boreal Sea and the Western Interior Sea that flooded large parts of North America. The proposed localities have the type section of the two targeted forma...

Principal Investigator: England, John H
Licensed Year(s): 2012 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
Summary: This licence was issued for the application no. 822. The objective of this research is to determine how the environment of Banks Island has evolved during the past several hundred thousand years to present, especially whether Banks Island served as a biological refugia during previous glaciations. The researchers aim to understand and reconstruct the extent and dynamics of past glaciers, past c...

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: Overpeck, Jonathan
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1991 1989
Summary: The goal of our ongoing project is to collect samples of mud from the bottom of several undisturbed lakes on southern Baffin Island. In the laboratory, we will then examine the chemistry, texture and fossils found in this mud in an effort to document how the environment (mainly climate) of this region has changed over the past 2000 years. We hope that this work will eventually aid efforts to imp...

Principal Investigator: Gray, James T.
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: In previous years research, we have been able to prove the existence of an early opening of the Hudson Strait at the end of the last Ice Age, and to establish 4 important source areas for ice flows into Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay. Our 1992 work will permit us to expand and complete the work on several offshore islands, as well as sample from an exposure of old marine sediments in the Deception ...

Principal Investigator: Kaufman, Darrell
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: Three field parties will continue investigations related to past glacial activity in the eastern arctic during the last deglaciation (12,000 - 8,000 years ago). They will also research the geologic record of environmental changes preserved in lake sediments....

Principal Investigator: Gilbert, Robert
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991 1990 1988
Summary: The Researcher will use a special type of echo sounder to determine the depth of the water and the thickness of the sediments beneath down to bedrock. The instrument also shows the patterms of sediment distribution around the fiord. From this, an assessment can be made of where the sediment has come from, how much there is and how the patterns of sedimentation have changed during the entire perio...

Principal Investigator: Wolfe, Alexander P.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1990
Summary: The Researcher will continue to investigate lakes on the unglaciated terrain of Fosheim Peninsula to determine the former environments of high and low arctic lakes. By analyzing the physical and chemical properties of the sediments, as well as the preserved biological remains within them, the nature and timing of rapid environmental changes at the close of the last glaciation may be explained....