NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Begin, Christian
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The research team will investigate a few localities to determine the best sites to study eolian deposits (sand dunes) and features related to permafrost degradation. Samples of granular and organic deposits will be taken....

Principal Investigator: Wein, Ross
Licensed Year(s): 1989
Summary: Dr. Wein and his research team are studying permafrost-based wetland forests that were burned by severe fires in 1981....

Principal Investigator: Spivey, Diane
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Diane Spivey is interested in knowing why there is less permafrost now in peatbogs. First, she will be mapping areas that have thawed and collapsed. Then, she will be looking and sampling vegetation to see if the vegetation has been disturbed so that it no longer insulates the permafrost as well. Last, she will look to see how well peat retains heat and acts as an insulator. She will use this i...

Principal Investigator: Fairbarns, Matt
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To choose study sites for work to be done next Spring on investigation of vegetation-permafrost-microclimate relationships associated with subarctic pipeline disturbances....

Principal Investigator: Pilon, Jean
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To carry on with the establishment of a series of permafrost observatories in the NWT to provide a cross section of permafrost conditions, through wihch to conduct long term reserch on permafrost characteristics, permafrost stability, permafrost climate interaction and its response to man induced and natural disturbances, at which to evaluate new tools to determine the properties of permafrost....

Principal Investigator: French, Hugh
Licensed Year(s): 1982
Summary: To continue studies of permafrost and land & terrain form related to permafrost erosional factors....