NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Lambiv, Gideon
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5493. The aim of the project is to locate areas with high potential for critical minerals mineralization. The results are intended to incentivize exploration for critical minerals and technology metals in the territory. This is particularly important now given the high demand for these commodities and the imminent closure o...

Principal Investigator: Groat, Lee A.
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5299. The main objectives of this fieldwork are to: 1) constrain the connection between the Niobium-Yttrium-Fluorine (NYF) and Lithium-Cesium-Tantalum (LCT) pegmatites; 2) assess the parental connections to the granite batholith which will provide insight into the evolution of melt over time, leading to a deeper understandi...

Principal Investigator: Terlaky, Viktor
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5283. This research study aims to fill the existing knowledge gaps about the Imperial Formation, including its regional sedimentology and stratigraphy (what types of rocks do we see regionally; how do they change vertically and laterally), ichnology and paleontology (what kind of fossils/traces do we see in the rocks). Addi...

Principal Investigator: Dyck, Brendan
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4723. The main object of this research project is to determine the strength of Earth's lower crust and how this portion of the crust responds to tectonic forces. Two weeks of fieldwork will be carried out at the Great Slave Lake Shear Zone to acquire the appropriate samples to explore stress across a fault zone. The majo...

Principal Investigator: Reyes, Alberto
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4776. The objective of this project is to directly date the retreat of the northwest sector of the Laurentide ice sheet at the end of the last ice age, using glacial boulder surface exposure ages at six sites along a ~600-km transect through NWT. At each of the six sites, the research team will circle the area from the ...

Principal Investigator: Rocheleau, Jonathan
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4969. The aim of the proposed fieldwork is to characterize the reservoir for potential geothermal resources in Fort Liard by studying the same rock formation where it is accessible at surface. By looking at how the Nahanni Formation changes both horizontally and vertically in a surface outcrop the research team can infer ho...

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: Turner, Elizabeth C
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: The objective of this research is to addresses the history of Earth-surface environments between 1 billion and 700 million years ago. The objective for 2019 is to complete a sample suite used by a Master of Science student. Each base-camp of 2 people will be deployed by helicopter, and after that, all work will be done on foot, with no motorised equipment. Working on mountainside exposures, the...

Principal Investigator: Fiess, Kathryn M
Licensed Year(s): 2018
Summary: This year’s objective is to complete the work at the selected locations by obtaining a full suite of rock samples for analysis, photograph each location, and measure natural radiation. At each site, the rock exposure will be photographed in detail. Natural radiation will be measured every half meter using a sensor without major disturbance of the rock face. At each location, rock samples weigh...

Principal Investigator: Rainbird, Robert H
Licensed Year(s): 2017
Summary: Fieldwork is proposed to acquire geological observations and collect rock samples for laboratory analysis. Results of fieldwork in the area will contribute to acquiring state-of-the-art data, updated maps, and related publicly available publications. Work consists of visual examination, description, measurement, and photography of rock outcrops. GPS units and satellite imagery will be used to l...