NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Cumbaa, S.L.
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher and his team will look for bones of fishes, reptiles and mammals that can help us understand better the kinds of environments that were present in the Arctic between 70 and 45 million years ago....

Principal Investigator: Fyles, John G.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1990
Summary: The researcher will revisit the "beaver peat" locality and will measure, describe, photograph and sample the exposed peaty material in greater detail than before. A detailed search will be made for fossil bones and beaver-gnawed sticks, as well as for additional fossils. Other sites where similar substrates containing fossil wood or other plant materials will also be visited (or revisited)....

Principal Investigator: Retelle, Michael J.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1990
Summary: The researchers will attempt to reconstruct climate and past environmental conditions through recovery and study of sediment cores from lakes at Taconite Inlet, northern Ellesmere Island. They will also monitor conditions under which the lake sediments are presently accumulating....

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: McIntyre, David J.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1990
Summary: The Researchers will collect rock samples for study of fossil algae (dinoflagellates) and will determine the geological age. They will correlate findings with similar material from wells and will determine climate and environment conditions at the time the rocks were deposited....

Principal Investigator: Dixon, O.A.
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1990 1988
Summary: In the Arctic Islands, the research will study sedimentary rocks and fossils that were formed more than 400 million years ago in warm tropical seas. It is hoped the study will assist in interpreting ancient environments in more detail, for example suggesting water depths, temperatures and climate....

Principal Investigator: Gajewski, Konrad
Licensed Year(s): 2008 2004 2001 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990
Summary: This study will investigate the long-term stability of the arctic "oases" of Polar Bear Pass and Hot Weather Creek by the pollen analyses of lake sediment cores. The sediment that accumulates in the bottom of lakes provides a history of the conditions in the lake. The pollen incorporated in the sediment can be interpreted to give an idea of the climate and vegetation for the past several thousand ...

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: Brand, Uwe
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992
Summary: The Researchers will study sedimentary rocks and fossils that were formed more than 350 million years ago in warm tropical seas. The study helps to interpret the ancient environments and will outline which rock units were most favourable to generating and hosting economic mineral deposits....

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....