Sentences with phrase «canadian icebreaker»

Research news straight from the Amundsen, a Canadian icebreaker where scientists are investigating climate change in the

We showed a Canadian icebreaker in our earlier post on the battle for the melting north; here is the US Coast Guard Healy, which according to Robert Lee Hotz in the Wall Street Journal is «are gathering the data legally required to extend national

A few years ago, I toured a Canadian icebreaker while it was docked in Cleveland on Lake Erie.

But for all his winter preparedness, working on a Canadian icebreaker to collect data for his NYSG - funded research project had its challenges.

So ornithologist Thomas Alerstam of Lund University in Sweden and colleagues used the radar on a Canadian icebreaker in the Northwest Passage to measure the direction of migrating birds flying past.

Not exact matches

The Science Team of the Canadian Research Icebreaker CCGS Amundsen has cancelled the first leg of the 2017 Expedition due to complications associated with the southward motion of hazardous Arctic sea ice, caused by climate change.

In 1970, Canadian politicians expressed alarm that the United States was going to bolster its icebreaker fleet, presumably to aid American ships in such transits.

Since our Canadian neighbors to the North are wrestling with the same problem as we are, perhaps the United States and Canada should team up and build new icebreakers jointly.

The Coast Guard is conducting a study, not yet public, examining Canadian and Finnish companies» ability to construct an icebreaker, according to [the Arctic Institute's Ryan] Uljua, who said one firm in Helsinki, Finland — Aker Arctic — has designed 60 percent of the world's icebreakers.

In a heartbreaking move, the Canadian government decided it would rather allow 500 narwhals to be shot one by one at an air hole in the ice, rather than bring in icebreakers to help free the whales.

The captain of a Finnish icebreaker looks out from the bridge as it sails into floating sea ice on the Victoria Strait while traversing the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in July 2017.

One of the things that interests me, as a Canadian, is whether the NW passage will open up for traffic this year, wihout the help of icebreakers.

Barber et al.: In situ observations from Canadian Research Icebreaker (NGCC) Amundsen indicate that the multi-year sea ice pack in the Southern Beaufort Sea was not as ubiquitous as it appeared within satellite remote sensing data products in early September 2009.

Our knowledge of the Canadian Arctic has increased tremendously during the last decade as a result of increased sampling effort made possible by a dedicated research icebreaker (CCGS Amundsen) and the emergence of major scientific programs (e.g. CASES, ArcticNet, CFL, CHONe, C3O, IPY, Arctic Census of Marine Life).

Photo: Hoag and the CCGS Amundsen, a Canadian Arctic research icebreaker she lived and worked on in 2008; courtesy Bennie Mols.