Regional expertise - Northern Mainland and Mackenzie Delta - Beaufort Sea
- Mike Cecile - Paleozoic stratigraphic and structural analysis, Northern Mainland
- Jim Dietrich - Petroleum resource evaluation
- Jim Dixon - Geology, Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin; Cambrian and Cretaceous-Tertiary, mainland NWT
- Larry Lane - Crustal structure and tectonic evolution of northern Yukon and Beaufort Sea region
- Edward Little - Kivalliq Region, Nunavut: drift surveys, ice-sheet dynamics and deglaciation
- Bernie MacLean - Regional seismic interpretation, northern Interior Plains
- Robert MacNaughton - eoproterozoic and Lower Paleozoic stratigraphy
- Dave McNeil - Mesozoic and Tertiary biostratigraphy and stratigraphy - forams
- Dave Morrow - Lower Paleozoic sequence stratigraphy
- Terry Poulton - Jurassic biostratigraphy and stratigraphy - molluscs
- Arthur Sweet - Cretaceous and Tertiary biostratigraphy and nonmarine palynology
Emeritus researchers
- Lloyd Snowdon - Oil source-rock geochemistry
- Don Cook - Stratigraphy and structure, Franklin Mountains and adjacent plains)