NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Staple, Tamara
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The research in Nahanni National Park includes the setting up of programs to monitor water depth and vegetational changes along the river. Changes in water depth influence the ability of navigating the river, especially in areas of rapids, and has implications on the level of expertise required by visitors travelling the river. Monitoring vegetation along the river will provide information about...

Principal Investigator: Solomon, Steven M
Licensed Year(s): 2000 1999 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992
Summary: As part of the Northern Oil and Gas Program (NOGAP), the Geological Survey of Canada will investigate shallow sediment types, sediment content in ice and under-ice water currents in the Canadian Beaufort Sea. This will be done by sampling and surveying using hand-held equipment and current meters (placed under the ice). This study will help to determine the role of ice in transporting sediments ...

Principal Investigator: Gilbert, Robert
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991 1990 1988
Summary: A special type of echo sounder will be used to determine the depth of the water and the thickness of the sediments beneath down to bedrock. The instrument also shows the patterns of sediment distribution around the fiord. From these results, an assessment can be made of where the sediment has come from, how much there is and how the patterns of sedimentation have changed during the entire period...

Principal Investigator: Retelle, Michael J.
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: This study will investigate how glaciers retreat in marine waters through the analysis of the sedimentary record in front of modern tidewater glaciers. The research will determine the critical factors such as valley morphology, water depth, climatic and glaciological conditions that have influenced the retreat of the marine margin of the Grinnell Glacier since its last advance during the Litte Ice...

Principal Investigator: Mate, Bruce R.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The Researchers will once again attempt to tag 12 bowhead whales. They will study how the whales move about during the feeding season and where and when they migrate west out of the Beaufort Sea. They will determine whether the migratory routes or timing vary between different kinds of animals and will determine the dive habits of the tagged animals....

Principal Investigator: Medendorp, John
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The Researchers will collect water depth measurements through the ice find a safe shipping route for sea-lift and fuel supply ship into Pelly Bay....

Principal Investigator: Scheibli, Frank
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Frank Scheibli and Alex Wolfe are part of Dr. King's research party working on the Truelove Lowlands. They are sampling the waters of three larger lakes to record depths, temperatures, and chemical properties. They want to know how these things affect the formation of sediments on the bottom of the lake....

Principal Investigator: McLeod, Curtis
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: To document fish use of shallow side channel areas or river margins to estimate the effect of water level changes on fish habitat. Detailed physical data collection (water levels, velocity and sediment samples) will be undertaken, data will also be collected of fish and small invertebrate use of habitat....

Principal Investigator: Andrews, J.T.
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To study the gology of Merchants Bay, Baffin Island, N.W.T. Samples of marine shells will be taken for dating pruposes, elevations of marine deposits will be measured and depths sounding will be taken to measure underwater topography....

Principal Investigator: Chapman, H.S.
Licensed Year(s): 1976
Summary: An examination of the sea bed using a Hudrosonde ED10 seismic profiler, sonar sounding equipment measure water depth and assess sea bed features and core samples....