NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Sharp, Martin
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: Measurements of the glacier's surface will be taken using ground surveys and radio echo sounding. In addition, data will be collected on the amounts of snow accumulation and meltwater run-off as well as the chemistry of the snow, water and ice. This information will provide us with a better understanding of glaciers in terms of their growth/shrinkage, contribution of water to the local environme...

Principal Investigator: Gregor, Dennis J.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993
Summary: Ice caps have been used to measure changes in the chemistry of the atmosphere over long periods of time. The studies have addressed climate change, levels of pollutants resulting from human activities, and levels of materials put into the atmosphere by natural processes (e.g., volcano eruptions). This on-going study has been examining the levels of contaminants in ice caps since 1986 by collecti...

Principal Investigator: Burn, Chris R
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992
Summary: This on-going research involves the assessment of isotopes in snowpack each winter. Collection of snow and ice at various sites along winter roads in the N.W.T. provides information about the composition of isotopes within a region. Isotopic composition of snow and ice taken from ice cores in Greenland and Antarctica have been able to provide information about past climates....

Principal Investigator: Ecclestone, Miles
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1991 1990 1988 1987
Summary: The Researcher and team will take measurements of the accumulation of snow on the glaciers and try to acertain how much snow and ice has been lost or gained since it was measured in 1989. Acidity in Colour Lake will be studied. They will also monitor any impacts their activity has had on the wetland through which the lake drains....

Principal Investigator: Howland, William G.
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: Professor Howland will carry out a winter field course for students of the Northern Studies Program of Middlebury College in Vermont, U.S.A. Using the Research Centres in Igloolik and Iqaluit, students will study polar physical conditions of the Arctic environment in winter....

Principal Investigator: Bednarski, Jan
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To study the snow pack including snow density, depth, water equivalence, stratigraphy and ice composition....

Principal Investigator: Uemura, Naomi
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: As part of one man/dog sled Polar expedition to conduct chemical analysis of ice and snow, analysis of snow crystals to determine upper atmosphere movements, analysis of air samles for pollutant content and photography of snow to assist in determining air currents....