NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Dallimore, Scott R
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1993 1992 1992 1991
Summary: A transect consisting of geotechnical boreholes and detailed geophysical studies will document the geological, geothermal and geotechnical conditions of perennially frozen sediments at three sites on Richards Island in the Mackenzie Delta....

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: Hiscott, Richard
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researchers will: map the geometry of debris-flow (mudflow) deposits; document bottom slopes and flow paths; relate debris-flow activity to Pleistocene history of the area and sea-bed cores and use this data to quantify the subaqueous (below water) debris-flow process....

Principal Investigator: Bouchard, Michel A.
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researchers will study the ejecta which is material formed as a result of the explosive impacting and throw out of rocks at the moment of meteorite impact. They will also investigate the pollen content of the glacial sediments trapped within the crater rim....

Principal Investigator: d'Entremont, Andre
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990
Summary: Fifty (50) sediment samples will be collected from 6 stations in Inner and Outer Sun Bay, Contwoyto Lake. The samples will be analyzed to determine whether or not there have been changes in contaminant levels since the mine became operational. Fifty (50) additional samples will be taken to look at the benthic organisms which live in the sediments....

Principal Investigator: Morgan, Alan
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researchers will collect sediment samples. Insect fossils will be extracted and analysed. The insect communities recovered will provide an indication of the climatic conditions in the area at the time the sediments were deposited. The age of the sediments will be determined with radiocarbon or other dating methods....

Principal Investigator: Miller, Raoul
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: Mr. Miller and Mark Abbott will take water samples and cores from the sediment at the bottom of several lakes on Laird and Becher Peninsulas, Baffin Island. The purpose of the sample collection is to find out about past climate of the area and also to see what impacts human activity in the Arctic might have on these lakes....

Principal Investigator: Sadura, Steven
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Mr. Sadura is continuing the study begun last summer by Dr. Martini in Foxe Basin. They are looking at the form and shape of the coastline and the bottom of the ocean in Foxe Basin. They will be collecting samples of soil and rock from along the coastline and the ocean bottom....

Principal Investigator: MacDonald, Glen M
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: to obtain lake sediment cores, peat samples, and tree-ring cores in the Kazan river region to examine the postglacial history of the northern treeline in this region...

Principal Investigator: MacDonald, Glen M
Licensed Year(s): 1989 1988
Summary: to obtain lake sediment cores, samples of pine needles, cones and seeds, and tree-ring cores from 10 sites along the Mackenzie River between Norman Wells and Fort Simpson in order to document the chronology of pine migration into the Mackenzie Valley following the last ice-age and to test hypotheses regarding postglacial history of northern plants and distributions of genetic diversity...