Studies to Unlock Northern Basins Energy along Artic Margins (SUNBEAM)

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The SUNBEAM (Studies to Unlock Northern Basins Energy along Arctic Margins) Program is the University of Calgary's initiative aimed at engaging a team of professors and their students in the study of Canada's most promising frontier basins in the Arctic. The SUNBEAM Program will train a new generation of geoscientists in the many aspects of multi-disciplinary, holistic, basin analysis, while gaining invaluable knowledge directly applicable to assessing and eventually unlocking the energy resource potential of the Arctic islands. In partnership with Total, the SUNBEAM Program will allow a dozen of graduate students to learn how to conduct research in the far north, while giving them access to one of Canada's most remarkable sedimentary successions. It will also introduce a new generation of professors to the challenges and rewards of conducting research in the Arctic. The project will both directly support and complement NRCan's mapping effort in the Arctic islands (Geomapping for Energy and Minerals (GEM)) in focusing on a broad area of the Sverdrup Basin. The SUNBEAM Project will contribute, in harmony with the overall objectives of GEM, to the sustainable economic development of northern Canada, with tangible benefits for all Canadians. A resource-based economy, as promoted by GEM and SUNBEAM, is a condition for creating prosperity, jobs, opportunities and a healthy social fabric in the north. The SUNBEAM Program will also generate a wealth of information on the resource-rich Canadian landmass adjacent to the Polar Continental Shelf that is currently being surveyed for its possible extension under the Law of the Sea.