Icebreaker: Voyage to the top of the world
From tomorrow, Nature reporter and Climate Feedback blogger Quirin Schiermeier will be spending a week aboard the Canadian research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen, as part of a project to study climate change in the high Canadian Arctic.
He will join an expedition of one of the largest projects in the International Polar Year research programme - the Circumpolar Flaw Lead System Study, led by David Barber of the University of Manitoba.
During the field season, from October 2007 to August 2008, more than 200 scientists from 15 countries will be studying the impact of climate change on sea ice, Arctic peoples, and marine ecosystems in some of the biologically most productive areas of the Arctic.
Quirin will board the Amundsen in Inuvik, in Canada's Northwest Territories, as the crew changes over for Leg 9 of the expedition and he'll be blogging a trip diary over on the Nature newsblog during the coming week.
Image: Arctic Ocean Sciences Board
Comments
Are there any data on the effects on Arctic ice of myriad ships ("ice breakers" criss-crossing bashing the ice up?
How about the soot from their engines, cook-stoves and such.
Oil slicks? Sewage and garbage?
Posted by: Larry Sheldon | June 4, 2008 10:09 PM