2017 Compendium of Nunavut Research Page | 1 2017 Compendium of Nunavut Research 2017 ᓄᐊᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᓂᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕈᑎᕕᓂᖕᓂᑦ 1 | P a g e 2017 Compendium of Nunavut Research Page | 2 Contents ᑐᓴᕋᔅᓴᖅ ᐊᖏᔪᖅᑳᒥ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕐᑐᓕᕆᑯᓂᑦ .................................................................... 8 A Message from the Director, Innovation and Research ......................................... 12 PHYSICAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES RESEARCH ......................................................... 16 Back River Project Baseline Studies ............................................................................... 17 Land and Water Research at the Cape Bounty Arctic Watershed Observatory (CBAWO), Melville Island .......................................................................... 18 Western Hudson Bay Geoscience for Infrastructure ................................................ 19 Mass Balance of Glaciers and Ice Caps in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canada ....................................................................................................................................... 20 Overby-Duggan, NU Aeromagnetic Survey ................................................................... 21 Pan-Arctic Measurements and Arctic Regional Climate Model Simulations .... 22 Postglacial Climates of the Canadian Arctic ................................................................. 23 Upper Air Building Laboratory, Resoute Bay .............................................................. 24 CANDAC – Canadian Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Change .......... 25 Lake Ice in the Canadian High Arctic .............................................................................. 26 Climate Change Effects of a Changing Cryoshpere on Northern Lakes ............... 27 Lithologic and Tectonic Controls on Paleoproterozoic Banded Iron Formation-Hosted/Associated Gold – A Study of the Amaruq Gold Zones ........ 28 Ice Islands of the Eastern Canadian Arctic .................................................................... 29 Winter to Summer Transitions in the Arctic-Ice Covered Ecosystems (Arctic-ICE) – A Multiyear Project .................................................................................... 30 Polar Knowledge Canada (POLAR) Camp on Greiner Lake, Cambridge Bay .... 31 Arctic Freshwater Biodiversity in Cambridge Bay .................................................... 32 Hope Bay Belt Project Scientific Research .................................................................... 33 NEIGE (Northern Ellesmere Island in the Global Environment) ........................... 34 Cambridge Bay Ocean Observatory................................................................................. 35 Canadian Ranger Ocean Watch ......................................................................................... 36 Geology Research in Baffin Bay ........................................................................................ 37 Arctic Coastal and Drifting Ice Processes and Dynamics ......................................... 38 Airborne and Ground-Based Electromagnetic Measurements of the Sea Ice Mass Balance ........................................................................................................................... 39 CASE 19 Pearya ....................................................................................................................... 40 Dynamics and Change of the Devon Ice Cap, Nunavut .............................................. 41 Synthesis of Glacial History and Dynamics in the Rae Geological Province ..... 42 2 | P a g e 2017 Compendium of Nunavut Research Page | 3 Geotechnical and Environmental Baseline Studies – Iqaluit Port Development. .......................................................................................................................... 43 Geotechnical and Environmental Baseline Studies – Pond Inlet Small Craft Harbour Development ......................................................................................................... 44 Using Lake Sediments to Track Human Impacts on Arctic Freshwater Ecosystems ............................................................................................................................... 45 Evaluation of Simulated Snow Properties Across the Arctic .................................. 46 Barrow Strait Real Time Observatory ............................................................................ 47 Tehery-Wager Geoscience Project .................................................................................. 48 Old Rocks in a New Light: Integrating the ca. 1.1 Ga Bylot Supergroup’s Tectonic History and Records of Environmental Change in the Context of New Age Constraints ............................................................................................................. 49 Permafrost Atmospheric Science in Cambridge Bay, Canada ................................ 50 Iqaluit MET Mast .................................................................................................................... 51 Sanikiluaq MET Tower ......................................................................................................... 52 GEM-2 North Baffin Bedrock Mapping Project ............................................................ 53 GEM-2 Boothia-Somerset: Integrated Geoscience Along the Northwest Passage ...................................................................................................................................... 54 An Investigation of the Sensitivity of High Arctic Permafrost to Climate Change ....................................................................................................................................... 55 Planetary Analog Studies at the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station .......... 56 Periglacial and Paleoglacial Investigation of the Haughton Impact Structure and Surrounding Terrains, Devon Island, Nunavut ................................................... 57 The Analytical Quandary of Chert Quarries: A Multi-Scalar Approach to Understanding Palaeo-Inuit Technological Organization and Novice Skill on Southern Baffin Island ......................................................................................................... 58 SuperDARN Radar Sites ....................................................................................................... 59 Onshore Stratigraphy, Northern Baffin Bay Region .................................................. 60 LiDAR Cambridge Bay .......................................................................................................... 61 Coppermine River Transect ............................................................................................... 62 Northern Contaminants Air Monitoring: Passive Air Sampling for Organic Pollutants and Mercury ....................................................................................................... 63 Airborne Geophysics Survey .............................................................................................. 64 Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) Airborne Campaign.............. 65 Mary River Project ................................................................................................................ 66 Deployment of Environmental Instrumentation in Grenier Lake, Cambridge Bay .............................................................................................................................................. 67 3 | P a g e 2017 Compendium of Nunavut Research Page | 4 WESTBAFF- MSM66 ............................................................................................................... 68 Geoscience Tools for Supporting Environmental Risk Assessment of Metal Mining ........................................................................................................................................ 69 The Beginning of an Era: Characterizing the Depositional Environment of Earth's Earliest Eukaryotic Life ........................................................................................ 70 A Weather Station Network to Support Safe Travel and Build Nunavummiut Environmental Monitoring Capacity............................................................................... 71 Microbial Investigations of Perennial Springs, Permafrost and Ground Ice in the High Arctic ........................................................................................................................ 72 Metal Loading and Retention in Arctic Tundra Lakes During Spring Runoff ... 73 Seabed Mapping of Frobisher Bay to Support Infrastructure Development and Natural Hazard Assessment ...................................................................................... 74 Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) Gascoyne Inlet ................ 75 ArcticNet 2017 Expedition: Integrated Regional Impact Study of the Canadian High Arctic ............................................................................................................ 76 The Sources and Fate of Glacially-Derived Nutrients, Microbes, and Vegetation ................................................................................................................................ 77 A Multidisciplinary Investigation of Salt Diapirs on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut ..................................................................................................................................... 78 Hydrological Processes and Change, Apex River,