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4 record(s) found with the tag "periglacial processes" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Multi-year study of high arctic periglacial processes and related quaternary history
Principal Investigator: Washburn, A.L.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1988 1987
Summary: The researcher will continue the long-term investigation of how the landscape has changed since the glaciers left 10 000 years ago. In particular, this study is examining the effects of frost and permafrost on the landscape. The researcher will be returning to several sites visited in previous years in order to check earlier observations....


Geoscientific research on Bylot Island and adjacent Baffin Island
Principal Investigator: Shilts, William W.
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991
Summary: The focus of this project is on examining the glacial and periglacial features of southern Bylot Island and the area near Pond Inlet. Researchers and graduate students will be collecting data on lichens, ice, land features and organisms in order to gain a better understanding of why glaciers of the area are retreating (melting)....


Licence #2524
Principal Investigator: Washburn, A.L.
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: To undertake a long term study of Quaternary geology and periglacial processes....


Licence #1836
Principal Investigator: Corbelini, G.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: A glacial and periglacial study in geomorphology on Baffin Island....


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