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Present location of the CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent.
Yesterday after the successful deployment of Mooring B, we started heading south on the 150˚ W line, stopping along the way at two CTD…
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Present location of the CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent.
If you look at our position today and compare it to yesterday's position you could easily infer that we have been in the same place…
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Present location of the CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent.
The past three days have been mostly dedicated to "ice ops" and the deployment of the ITPs and Ice Mass Balance Buoys (IMBs). Today is…
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Location of the CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent.
Overnight we made our way south and west stopping along the way for a couple of overnight XCTD casts and arriving at station CB11b where the…
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Present location of the CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent.
After Ice Station #1 yesterday we headed towards the southwest for our second ice station of the trip. I was a bit turned around when…
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Late last night we arrived at our now most northern point and first ice station which meant we would be on ice for a good chunk of the day. Our first ice station was coincidently our…
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Present location of the CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent.
After finishing work at Station CB16 at about midnight last night, we are now headed in a northeasterly direction in search of…
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Present location of the CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent
Our overnight northwesterly run towards PP7 was slowed somewhat. Persistent and rather thick blocks of ice and heavy fog kept the ship…
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Present location of the CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent.
We are on an easterly run towards station PP6 then will turn back towards the northwest heading for stations PP7 and CB15. By days end…
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Present Location of the CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent.
Late yesterday we set a course to the northwest heading for our next two stations CB40 then CB18. We did, however, spend some extra…
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We are currently on a run headed east towards Banks Island with rosette CTD casts occurring about every 3 to 5 hours apart. It's all fairly routine at this point: rosette is cast,…
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Things are starting to fall into a routine. There are still many pieces of equipment to set up but the CTD casts are happening routinely and the required onboard sample processing and…