Researchers from Montana State University, including graduate students, are proposing a project that would characterize the geochemical and biological properties of a brine system and a glacial outflow on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut. The research on Axel Heiberg Island would involve taking samples of water, ice, snow, brine, salt and sediments from the Stolz Diapir in Whitsunday Bay and from a glacier that feeds into Skaare Fiord. There would be a temporary field camp for approximately ten days at each of the two field sites with up to five people. Transport to the field camp locations would be via Twin Otter aircraft from the Polar Continental Shelf Program facility near Resolute Bay. Transport at the field camp locations would be via snowmobile and on foot. The chemical and biological data would provide information to improve understanding on whether these cold and salty environments are good habitats for microbes. The planned research would take place from late-April to the end of May 2024.