Photo gallery
Ship Logs
The Louis S. St-Laurent waits patiently for the science crew to arrive
Conducting rescue boat drills during the first few days on board
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle prepares to be Launched into the Arctic waters
Jacob Verhoef (NRCan) and David Hopkin (DRDC) stand infront of newly built Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
New Autonomous Underwater Vehicle prepares for testing off the coast of British Colombia
Deline Student Names AUV
Photo's courtesy of Atlantic Forestry Centre
David Hopkin (left) of Defence Research Development Canada, Jacob Verhoef (second from right) of Natural Resources Canada and Steve Daniel (right) of the GNWT Department of Education, Culture and Employment stand with Ehtseo Ayha School students and their teacher, including Todd Elton and Tannice Baton (2nd and 3rd from left respectively) who won the AUV Naming Contest.
(Back L-R) David Hopkin of Defence Research Development Canada and Jacob Verhoef of Natural Resources Canada pose for a photo with AUV Naming Contest award recipients Todd Elton and Tannice Baton and their teacher Lily Kelly (Front L-R) from the Ehtseo Ayha School in Déline, NT.
Defence Research Development Canada's David Hopkin instructs students from the Ehtseo Ayha School in Déline, NT on how the ROV works.
USCGC Healy (in front) breaking ice for the CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent during the 2009 Canada-US joint Arctic survey
CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent (left) and USCGC Healy together in the Arctic Ocean during 2009 joint survey
CCGS Louis S. St.-Laurent (left) and USCGC Healy together in the Arctic Ocean during 2009 joint survey
Example of a seismic record from the Arctic Ocean (2009 joint survey). Picture show volcano (about 2 km high) buried under sediments
Joint Canada – US Mission
Ward Hunt Ice Camp Mission
Daily life at the Ward Hunt ice camp, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. Gravity specialists Henriette Skourup, Danish Space Agency, (red coat) and Alain Belzile, Geodetic Survey of Canada, NRCan, calibrate their gravity meters in a known location at camp before a day of surveying
Bell 206 Long Ranger helicopters arrive at Ward Hunt ice camp after a day of hydrographic surveying. Rudy Cutill, Electronic Technician, CHS/DFO, carries back the data recorder for the echo sounder transducer, to keep it warm in the tent overnight
Helicopter pilot Jean-Michel Remy flies a Bell 206 helicopter over the Arctic ice north of Ward Hunt Island during a hydrographic survey for the Canadian UNCLOS continental shelf program
Mike Black, hydrographer, Canadian Hydrographic Service, DFO, adjusts the output level of an echo sounder transducer while recording bathymetric data on the ice north of Ellesmere Island
After a survey flight, Danish hydrographers carry a piece of data recording equipment out of the helicopter to store overnight in a heated tent at the Ward Hunt ice camp
Canadian hydrographers start out on a bathymetric survey of the Lomonosov ridge north of Ellesmere Island, after performing a calibration of their echo sounder transducer on the ice near the Ward Hunt ice camp
Hydrographer George Schlagintweit, Canadian Hydrographic Service, DFO, takes gravity measurements over the Lomonosov Ridge using a portable gravity meter placed on the ice. Also on the ice (connected by yellow cable to a recording device inside the helicopter) is an echo sounder transducer used to measure ocean depth)
Scientists and crew members install the "stinger" magnetometers on this DC-3T aircraft from Kenn Borek Air, chartered by PCSP
Gravity specialist John Halpenny, Geodetic Survey of Canada, NRCan, checks gravity measurement and data recording instruments prior to flight
Richard MacDougall, Director, Law of the Sea Project, DFO, at the Ward Hunt ice camp, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
Cook, Diane Fataki, prepares extra plates of food for staff in the dining tent at the Ward Hunt ice camp, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
Group photo of Canadian and Danish science and support personnel at the Ward Hunt ice camp, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. Left to right: Aaron Carpenter, Randy Pijamini, Tom Kiguktak, Joanne Edwards, Alain Belzile, Henriette Skourup, George Schlagintweit, Julian Goodyear, Richard MacDougall, Christian Marcussen, Morten Solvsten, Jon Biggar, Uni Bull, Jim Weedon, Henrik Agner, Mike Black, Rudy Cutillo, John Mercuri, and Diane Fataki
Flight from Eureka to Ward Hunt ice camp, at the northern tip of Ellesmere Island
Flags of Canada, Nunavut, Greenland, Denmark, and the Canadian Hydrographic Service (DFO) at the Ward Hunt ice camp
Bell 206 Long Ranger helicopter arrives at Ward Hunt ice camp after a day of hydrographic surveying
View of Arctic ice northwest of Ward Hunt Island
Honourable Gary Lunn’s Arctic Visit
Honourable Gary Lunn, Former Minister of Natural Resources Canada (Right) talks with scientists in the Arctic
Honourable Gary Lunn, Former Minister of Natural Resources Canada (Right) learns the technical side of mapping the Arctic seabed
Honourable Gary Lunn, Former Minister of Natural Resources Canada (Right) speaks with Jacob Verhoef, Natural Resources Science Director
John Shimeld's photo gallery
This is most of the team members in front of the entrance to CFS Alert. Half of us were Canadian and the other half Danish. Three of our team members are not in the picture because they were working on the ice.
Here I am with Ruth Jackson, the chief scientist during our expedition to Alert.
Here you can see a helicopter landing with more supplies for the ice camp. Even though this picture was taken at about 7:30 pm, there is bright sunshine since the sun never sets in the Arctic during the summer.
Hercules military aircraft taking off from Alert Base.
This is where the Arctic Ocean meets Ellesmere Island, northwest of CFS Alert. Another very beautiful place!
The sea ice north of CFS Alert. The long grey tracks are cracks in the ice that are about 500 metres wide.
In many areas, the surface of the sea ice is very rough because the ice gets crushed and pushed into ridges as it moves due to wind and ocean currents.
This is a seismic recorder.
A co-worker, Dave Snyder, is checking one of the instruments that is used to record seismic waves and is putting it in a cooler to keep it warm.
Testing the satellite beacons at the beginning of the seismic experiment to make sure everything worked properly.
Loading equipment onto a Twin Otter airplane at the ice camp.
With the equipment loaded there was barely enough room for coffee.
Tying together the charges that will create the seismic wave.
Putting the explosives down a hole we drilled in the ice.
Collecting the equipment after the experiment. Can you find the seismometer and satellite beacon after this storm?
At ice camp we would fire air guns and record the seismic waves being reflected off of the ocean floor.
Waiting for data to come in.
Technician Bob Iuliucci (left) and Chief Scientist Dave Mosher (right) are assembling ocean bottom seismometers on the deck of the Hudson.
The deck crew is lowering an ocean bottom seismometer into the sea with a crane.
Two seismic air guns on the deck before they are lowered from the afterdeck and towed behind the ship.
Air guns being lowered by the crane operator into the ocean from the afterdeck of the ship.
This photograph was taken just after the air guns had released an air bubble and created a seismic wave.
A pod of curious pilot whales that stayed around our ship for three days.
The mountain range south of CFS Alert. In the middle right of the picture you can see a glacier between two of the mountain peaks. I took this photo from a Twin Otter airplane shortly after our group had begun the journey home.
Arriving home to the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth NS after my 6 week field trip. It was 6:30 am!
Kevin Coflin, my coworker, interpreting seismic data.