NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Vavrek, Matthew J
Licensed Year(s): 2012
Summary: The research team will be prospecting for and collecting Cretaceous fossils from the Summit Creek Formation in order to better understand what terrestrial biodiversity was like at high latitudes at that time. This project is a continuation of the collaborative research program on ancient biodiversity in the Canadian Arctic. Recently, the research team completed work supported by Polar Continental ...

Principal Investigator: Aubet, Natalie
Licensed Year(s): 2011 2010
Summary: Objectives The researcher intends to better resolve the climatic and oceanic chemical conditions that ultimately led to the origins of animal life and the so-called ‘Cambrian explosion’ by focusing on the exceptionally well-preserved ancient banded iron formations from the Rapitan Group (NWT, Canada) and the overlying carbonate units. Specifically, detailed chemical and isotopic analyses of these...

Principal Investigator: Rose, Rachael
Licensed Year(s): 2011
Summary: The objective of this study is to record the succession of rocks and collect some samples for further analysis. The researchers would take pictures of the rocks at the locations in order to support the interpretations made. From these observations, interpretations on the Devonian environment can be made. Rock succession and features within the rocks will be recorded in a notebook and the corres...

Principal Investigator: Reimink, Jesse R
Licensed Year(s): 2014 2013 2012 2011
Summary: This study has the following specific objectives: 1) Collect samples from this very ancient and rare set of rocks, while documenting field relationships and structures present in the complex rock outcroppings of the Acasta Gneiss Complex (AGC); 2) Determine the major- and trace-element composition of the rocks and compare these to published data on broadly similar rocks formed later in Earth histo...

Principal Investigator: Butterfield, Nicholas J
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The primary objective of this study is to document the sequence of trilobite occurrences in the Mount Cap Formation, and to apply this to the developing international scheme for correlating Cambrian rocks. The importance of the Mount Cap fossils lies in the identification of a key trilobite species that has not previously been reported from North America. The research plan is to collect fossils ...

Principal Investigator: Longrich, Nicholas R
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: To better understand how the K-T extinction affected Polar Regions, and whether the extinction was more severe in the High Arctic, the researchers will search for dinosaur and mammal fossils in the Brackett Basin. Previous work by the Geological Survey of Canada has found Cretaceous and Palaeocene rocks of the Summit Creek Formation along the Mackenzie, and to the south, in the Tertiary Hills. The...

Principal Investigator: Cumbaa, Stephen L
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2008 1997 1995
Summary: To discover fossil bones and teeth of new species of ancient fishes, and remains of other animals that shared the shallow waters of the Western Interior Seaway with them. This seaway covered the middle of North America, from the NWT to the Gulf of Mexico. The researchers are trying to learn more about the environment of this ancient seaway, and why it was a "hot spot" for fish evolution. The ...

Principal Investigator: Schneider, Christie L
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: This year, the research purpose is to investigate potential geological localities for work next year, so direct involvement with local communities and guides will be minimal. The researcher intends to identify and talk with people who have outfitting and guide businesses, and those who have knowledge of potential research areas for next summer’s research. The objectives of the proposed researc...

Principal Investigator: Spencer, Lee A
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: This licence has being issued for the scientific research application No.1072. The researchers will collect plant fossils from the Miocene Ballast Brook and Pliocene Beaufort Formations (Ballast Brook River), Banks Island. They will transport the specimens to Southern Adventist University, Collegedale, Tennessee, USA, for DNA processing and analysis. A final report will be submitted to Aurora...

Principal Investigator: Maxwell, Erin E
Licensed Year(s): 2009 2008
Summary: This licence is being issued for the scientific research application no. 1011. The goals of this research are to 1) collect and identify invertebrate fossils to correctly date the rocks the historic marine reptile fossils were collected from; and 2) to collect and identify any new vertebrate fossils found, in order to improve our knowledge of the diversity and evolution of Mesozoic marine repti...