NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Viren, Tom
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: Mr. Lonnie Dupre, Mr. Malcolm Vance and Mr. Jon Nierenburg will collect snow and plant material samples on behalf of Mr. Derik Muir, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada and Mr. Dan Jaffe, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks....

Principal Investigator: Adams, Peter
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1991 1990 1988 1987
Summary: The project will continue to take measurements of the accumulation of snow on the glaciers and try to ascertain how much snow and ice has been lost or gained since it was measured in 1990. Limnology experiments will be conducted on Colour Lake. Ice regimes will be monitored....

Principal Investigator: Maus, Lin
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The project instructors will give students exposure to field methodologies involved in water, snow and ice environments....

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: Prowse, Terry D
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To study river ice jams and break up in the Fort Simpson region, to study Mackenzie River and Delta ice break up as well as the water balance in Mackenzie Delta Lakes. To study snow-soil interactions near Resolute Bay....

Principal Investigator: Woo, Ming-ko
Licensed Year(s): 1982
Summary: To conduct an examination of snow distribution in drainage basins; to correlate findings with traditional readings and conceptions of snowfall....

Principal Investigator: Woo, Ming-ko
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: (1) Snow distribution studies in drainage - Eureka, Ellesmere Island, Mould Bay, Prince Patrick Island, Resolute, Cornwallis Island. (2) Monitor snow melt processes - Resolute area. (3) Continuation of hydrologic processes study related to lake ice break-up - Resolute area. (4) Examine subsurface and overland water flow on an Arctic slope - Resolute area....

Principal Investigator: Williams, Chief Petty Officer, S.R.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To undertake a program of various studies as part of the Royal Navy's expedition to Princess Marie Bay. The studies will include snow sampling, insect counts, bird observations, plant sampling, nanoplankton sampling and climatology observations....

Principal Investigator: Woo, Ming-ko
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To study the melt processes of an Arctic snowpack and an Arctic lake ice cover and to compare the stream flow of a glacerized and adjacent non-glacerized basin....

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