2010 Canadian Ocean Science Plan Arctic Ocean Sciences

2010 Canadian Ocean Science Plan Arctic Ocean Sciences Board/Pacific Arctic Group Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) , Nuuk Robert Fudge, Fisheries & Oceans Canada 1

Canadian Program - 2010 Cruise Plan (Pacific Arctic Zone) • Canada’s Three Oceans - Turbo – Louis S. St-Laurent and Sir Wilfrid Laurier • AON/BG/Joint Ocean-Ice Study (JOIS) – Louis S. St-Laurent • AIM (Arctic Ice Monitoring) / MGH (Mackenzie Gas Hydrate) – Sir Wilfrid Laurier • Seabed Mapping (UNCLOS) – Louis S. St-Laurent (LSSL) & US Healy • Arctic. Net – Amundsen 2

Canadian Program – 2010 MAIN PRIORITIES • • • Ecosystem Science / Climate Change Marine Protected Areas – Beaufort Sea, Lancaster Sound Hydrocarbon Industry expansion & increased vessel traffic New and existing fisheries / hunts, expanding quotas UNCLOS program - Hydrographic mapping 3

Canada’s Three Oceans (C 3 O) • 15000 km annual transect • Systematic annual sampling from Canada’s East Coast to West Coast through the Arctic Ocean • State of the Ecosystem, process, function 4

Canada’s Three Oceans (C 3 O) - East Louis S. St-Laurent July 20 to Aug 4 • XCTD’s 4 times daily, Wildlife observations, CTD/Rosettes • Leg 1: St John’s – Resolute July 20 -27 • Leg 2: Resolute Kugluktuk July 27 -Aug 04) – Will be a science/policy workshop Arctic science – Bob Dickson Harvesting the Connectivity of the IPY 5

Canada’s Three Oceans (C 3 O) - West Sir Wilfrid Laurier July 7 To 22 • • • Daily CTD/Rosette/Net stations on Pacific great circle transit Infill underway XCTD casts Cross shelf CTD/Rosette sections south of Aleutians, in the southern Bering Sea and across the Bering Strait Stations in Bering and Chukchi Seas (max 300 m) with CTD/Rosette, Nets and Sediment sampling Underway Measurements: Wildlife observations, GPS and Ship’s heading, Sounder, Weather, In-lab seawater system 9 -12 science berths Victoria - Barrow 6

AON/BG/Joint Ocean Ice Study CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent Sept 15 to Oct 15 Partnered with NSF and WHOI • • • Rosette/CTD with ADCP Chemistry: On Board: Salts, Oxygen, Nutrients, CFC, Alkalinity, Chlorophyll, Ammonium Moorings and Buoys: 3 WHOI Moorings, 1 CABOS Mooring, 4 ITP Buoys, 1 O-Buoy Zooplankton Net Tows XCTDs On ice sampling for ice, brine and soot Near ship sampling including CTD, water and ice samples from small craft Underway Measurements: Ice observations, GPS and Ship’s heading, Sounder, Weather, In-lab seawater system 23 Science berths 7

Arctic Ice Monitoring / Mackenzie Gas Hydrate Sir Wilfrid Laurier Sept 21 to Oct 12 • Investigating Gas Hydrates • Ice Thickness Monitoring • Mooring Deployment/Retrieval 8

Arctic Ice Monitoring / Mackenzie Gas Hydrate §Arctic Ice Monitoring Mission – Recover 13 moorings at 8 locations – Re-deploy 9 moorings using a leapfrog servicing strategy – CTD profiles at mooring sites – On-shore calibration of instrument compasses §Gas Hydrate Mission – Recover 1 mooring (Kopanoar) – Sub-bottom & multi-beam sonar surveys – Piston coring – Video reconnaissance, gas sampling 9

UNCLOS - Continental Shelf Seabed Mapping Louis S. St-Laurent & Healy Aug 4 to Sept 15 • • • Successful seismic surveys in 2007, 2008 and 2009 – Collected 10, 000 km of seismic data (very good quality) – Covered most of the extended area Joint operation with US in 2008 and 2009 (Louis/ Healy) – able to collect seismic under heavy ice conditions (up to 84) – first seismic data in northern Beaufort Sea Initial results: – Large quantities of sediments in entire Beaufort Sea – Third joint survey with US in 2010 10

UNCLOS - Continental Shelf Seabed Mapping 2010 LSSL 10 20 SL LS 2010 - AUV 10 20 SL LS SSL 2010 L 11

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Arctic. Net Cruise Plan Sachs Iqaluit Kugluktuk Leg 1: 01 Jul – 12 Aug Leg 2: 12 Aug – 23 Sep Leg 3: 23 Sep – mid Oct Québec 13

Arctic. Net Cruise Plan – Leg 1 Hudson Bay 14

Arctic. Net Cruise Plan – Leg 2 Western Arctic 23 Sep Leg 1: 01 Jul – 12 Aug Leg 2: 12 Aug – 23 Sep Leg 3: 23 Sep – mid Oct 12 August 15

Northern Coastal Marine Study - Nahidik • Program began in 2002 • 53 ft ice-strengthened vessel with 2 m draft • Conducting a coastal shelf program • Fully integrated ecosystem study • Ship no longer operable • Team looking for alternate platforms for operations 2011 and beyond 16

Canadian Program Leads and Contacts For Canadian vessel programs contact: Robert Fudge – Director NCAARE • NCAARE: www. dfo-mpo. gc. ca Martin Fortier – Scientific Director Arctic. Net • Arctic. Net: www. arcticnet. ulaval. ca Program Leads: Canada’s Three Oceans – Dr. Eddy Carmack Joint Ocean Ice Study – Dr. Fiona Mc. Laughlin Arctic Ice Monitoring – Dr. Humfrey Melling UNCLOS – Dr. Jacob Verhoef Arctic. Net – Dr. Louis Fortier 17

Canadian Ranger Ocean Watch (CROW) Program Ed Carmack, IOS • DFO/DND partnership, DFO-Science provides training, instrumentation and a science plan that addresses international priorities (i. e. i. AOOS and SAON) • DND-Rangers collect climate and environment data, part of annual training patrols. • Downscaling from ‘global’ scale perspective of C 3 O to regional and community scale • Rangers have intimate knowledge of the area and unmatched skills of on-ice travel • Provide the strongest available platform to build a sustainable network to observe key climate and environmental parameters within the marine environment of the Canadian Arctic Achipelago. 18

Canadian Ranger Ocean Watch (CROW) Program Plan to commence in 2011 • simple measurements at predetermined locations by Rangers training patrols • typically, within a 300 km distance of patrols community • snow and ice thickness; snow/ice interface temperature; water column temperature, salinity, chlorophyll content, dissolved oxygen; and surface nutrient concentrations. • ice buoys deployed in the ice to measure ice and water temperatures at hourly intervals, and transmit this data realtime via an Iridium link 19

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