Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region
Tags: physical sciences, sea ice, ice thickness, sonar survey, ice drift, ice growth
| Principal Investigator: | Melling, Humfrey (16) |
| Licence Number: | 10036 |
| Organization: | Institute of Ocean Sciences, Department of Fisheries and Oceans |
| Licensed Year(s): |
1996
1995
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1992
1991
1990
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| Issued: | Jan 01, 1990 |
Objective(s): To deploy and recover subsea sonar instruments to measure the motion, thickness and ridging of sea ice as it drifts overhead between March and August; to repeat a survey of seawater temperature and salinity properties in the Beaufort Sea in late winter and to study their relation to ice thickness, drift and growth conditions during the preceding six months;
Project Description: Sonar instruments will be deployed from the ice cover at two locations on the continental shelf north and east of Tuktoyaktuk. They will operate on the seafloor until recovery in August. The survey of seawater properties will be conducted at selected sites throughout the offshore.
