NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Schwarz, David
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5726. To conduct a solar resource assessment monitoring campaign at the Inuvik Satellite Station Facility (ISSF). NRG Systems designs solar resource assessment systems that suit a variety of climates, terrains, and applications. Aurora Research Institute (ARI) is currently in the process of purchasing three NRG Systems ...

Principal Investigator: Schwarz, David
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5725. To conduct a wind and solar resource assessment monitoring campaign in the community of Paulatuk, NT. Lidar has emerged as a powerful tool to remotely sense wind characteristics via measurement of the Doppler shift of light emitted by the lidar and scattered back from particles in the atmosphere such as dust, moi...

Principal Investigator: Schwarz, David
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5727. To conduct a wind and solar resource assessment monitoring campaign at the Northland Utilities site in Wekweètì. Lidar has emerged as a powerful tool to remotely sense wind characteristics via measurement of the Doppler shift of light emitted by the lidar and scattered back from particles in the atmosphere such as...

Principal Investigator: Schwarz, David
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5724. To conduct wind and solar resource assessment monitoring campaigns in the communities of Fort McPherson and Tsiigehtchic, Northwest Territories. Lidar has emerged as a powerful tool to remotely sense wind characteristics via measurement of the Doppler shift of light emitted by the lidar and scattered back from par...

Principal Investigator: Layden, Ronald E.
Licensed Year(s): 2017
Summary: The objective of this project is to increase the understanding of taiga carbon balance of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and predict into the future the impacts of climate warming on these systems. The exchange of carbon gases between the taiga and atmosphere is a significant component of the carbon balance and is dependent upon vegetation cover. The description below for the tundra site at...

Principal Investigator: Birnbaum, Gerit
Licensed Year(s): 2008
Summary: The main goal of this project is to better understand how melt ponds evolve, and their influence on absorption/reflection of solar radiation at the sea ice surface. This information will help to predict summer sea ice melt and future Arctic climate. Data will be collected by using instruments mounted on the German research aircraft Polar5. The airbase of Polar5 will be Inuvik. The aircraft will...

Principal Investigator: Rouse, Wayne R
Licensed Year(s): 2006 2005 2004
Summary: The objectives of the research are to: pursue temperature and energy balance studies on Great Bear Lake; determine if Great Bear Lake’s climate behaves like that of Great Slave Lake, or if its unique geographical position and physical attributes make it distinctive; and to explore the temperature structure of the atmosphere above Great Bear Lake and link this with heat and moisture exchanges betwe...

Principal Investigator: Vincent, W.F.
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: There is increasing evidence that levels of solar UV-B radiation have begun to rise in the high Arctic. Little is known about microbial life-forms in the ecosystems of Arctic lakes and rivers and their UV-B resistance. A sampling hole will be drilled in the lake ice. These samples of zooplankton will be studied by a microscope. Samples of water and periphytic communites will also be taken. Underw...

Principal Investigator: English, Michael C
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1992 1991
Summary: The researchers are interested in understanding how physical factors (snowmelt, rainfall, solar radiation) play a role in thawing the upper part of the ground each year during the spring and summer. Instruments in the ground will collect data that will estimate how much energy (from the sun) is entering into and melting the frozen ground. Other instruments will measure snowmelt, rainfall and the...

Principal Investigator: Kelly, John D.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993
Summary: The researchers are continuing their long term study of the earth's atmosphere from the newly established scientific facility in Resolute Bay. Data will be collected in order to understand the influence of the sun on the earth's atmosphere....