Collaborative Research: Diamonds and Oil from the Tundra: A System Study on the Impact of Changing Seasons on Mining and Oil Exploration NSF Award 0902130

• Main Author: Matthew Sturm
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2013
• Subjects: EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > HEAVY METALS CONCENTRATION; OTHER; UNKNOWN; MONTHLY TO ANNUAL; Canada; Dettah; Northwest Territories; Yellowknife; Collaborative Research: Diamonds and Oil from the Tundra: A System Study on the Impact of Changing Seasons on Mining and Oil Exploration; Tundra; Wha Ti
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:e0ed3e56-20b6-4c1a-b547-d4d0a8d35307

This project seeks to understand how changing season length, principally winter, affects transportation systems that rely on ice roads in the Northwest Territories, Canada. From this small system, we then seek to generalize the results to an assessment of the impact of seasons on transportation and...