NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

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....

Principal Investigator: Gajewski, Konrad
Licensed Year(s): 2008 2004 2001 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990
Summary: The Researcher will collect lake sediment cores from Somerset Island and northwest Cornwallis Island. The pollen and sediment characteristics will be analyzed in a laboratory to reconstruct the vegetation and climate history of the past 8000-9000 years of these regions....

Principal Investigator: Bradley, Raymond S.
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: To study the recent geological history of the area and to core lake bottoms in an attempt to ascertain the nature of past climates. The core samples will be analysed for the presence of pollen and small organisms (diatoms and foraminifera)....

Principal Investigator: Mode, William N.
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: Sampling of glacial and marine sediments for compositional and fossil (pollen and marine shelled animals and micro-organisms) analysis and sampling of lake sediments for similar analysis....

Principal Investigator: Ritchie, J.C.
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To examine and sample the unconsolidated sediments of various small lakes in an area surrounding Hyndman Lake (50 km. radius) ESE of Inuvik, for the purpose of making laboratory analyses of Carbon - 14 age, pollen stratigraphy and other microfossils. The ultimate objective is to reconstruct the past vegetation and environment of the area....