Principal Investigator:Miyashita, Tetsuto Licensed Year(s):
2024
Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5973.
Through this field project, there are two main goals: 1) to fill in a major gap in, and transform knowledge of early vertebrate evolution through the analysis of new fossils from the Anderson River locality, which represent a poorly known interval of the geological time. For goal (1), the existing collections from th...
Principal Investigator:Terlaky, Viktor Licensed Year(s):
2019
Summary:
The objective is to scope the Imperial Formation in order to develop a more extensive future study of this formation, and to sample the sites for conodont fossil bearing carbonates in order to better age date the Horn River Group deposits.
At each site the rock exposure will be photographed in detail. At Mountain River and Gayna Gorge the outcrop will be sampled for conodont fossil bearing car...
Principal Investigator:Pratt, Brian R. Licensed Year(s):
2019
Summary:
Sedimentary rocks of Cambrian age (~500 million years old) are the oldest Phanerozoic strata in the Mackenzie River valley region and record the spread of a shallow sea over much older strata. The approximate age of these rocks is known via trilobite fossils based on reconnaissance collections made in the 1960s and 2010s. The purpose of the project is to make more closely spaced fossil collections...
Principal Investigator:Gosse, John C Licensed Year(s):2017
2016
Summary:
Our main goals of this research project are:
1.) to collect sediment samples that will be used to provide ages of the sediment in the Beaufort Formation on Prince Patrick Island; and, 2.) to collect samples of fossil material (wood, plants, bone) that can be analyzed to produce climate reconstructions for the Pliocene.
The research team will travel to approximately 5-6 site locations. The t...
Principal Investigator:Smith, Martin R Licensed Year(s):
2016
Summary:
The objectives of this research project are to measure continuous sedimentary sections spanning Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition; to use geochemical approaches to precisely constrain the age and depositional conditions of the strata; and, to obtain Small Carbonaceous Fossils and Small Shelly Fossils from temporally-constrained strata in order to determine the rate of evolution through the Cambri...
Principal Investigator:Dearden, Richard P Licensed Year(s):
2016
Summary:
The research team will visit the site, as specialists in vertebrate palaeontology, in the hope of finding more of these well-preserved cartilaginous fishes. This will hopefully result in more fossil material, which will be collected and taken back to the institutions for study.
The work would involve searching for more fossils: this mainly consists of hiking over the rocky exposures above the t...
Principal Investigator:Vavrek, Matthew J Licensed Year(s):
2016
Summary:
The research team will be travelling to the Anderson River via helicopter, approximately 220 km due west of Inuvik. The team will be camping in a small fly camp while in the field. Two weeks will be spent in the field, searching the exposed rocks along the banks of the Anderson River for fossils of extinct marine vertebrates. All work will be done on foot. Any fossils that are found are important ...
Principal Investigator:Fiess, Kathryn M Licensed Year(s):
2014
2013 Summary:
The objective of this project is to identify a vertebrate fossil of Carboniferous age recently found in the Golata Formation in the Liard Basin.
The research group is studying outcrops of Devonian to Carboniferous age shale to establish the hydrocarbon resource potential for the NWT, BC, and Yukon regions of the Liard area. Scientific investigations include measuring rock outcrop sections and t...
Principal Investigator:Henderson, Donald M Licensed Year(s):
2013
Summary:
The objectives of this research project are to: 1) excavation of the body fossil(s) and their careful packaging for removal and travel; and 2) make latex rubber peels of the fossilized trackways left on a fine-grained limestone. If the quality of the tracks merits it, the rock slabs hosting the tracks may be removed for safe-keeping and public display.
The fossil will be collected using standar...
Principal Investigator:Vavrek, Matthew J Licensed Year(s):
2013
Summary:
This project is a continuation of the collaborative research program on ancient biodiversity in the Canadian Arctic. Recently, the group completed work supported by Polar Continental Shelf Project in the Brackett Basin in the westcentral Northwest Territories and the Bonnet Plume Basin in northeastern the Yukon Territory, during which the research team recovered both new vertebrate (dinosaur) foss...