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First News After the successful redeployment of Mooring Station A, last night we steamed to the east and found ourselves at Mooring Station D aka CB21. This is the last of the mooring stations and will involve two days of work. Today is all about recovery, then we will do a little triangle

First news Mooring A was successfully redeployed today and now (5:06 pm of local time) we are moving toward mooring D with a lot of CTD stations. ##Life on the Louis It occurred to me that life on the Louis is something that should be visited. There is a certain rhythm of the day to day going ons

First News We had some visitors early this morning but they did not come aboard. The USCGC Healy was spied as the sun was rising way off in the eastern horizon. The Healy is an icebreaker from the United States and worked with the Louis S. St Laurent for three years, 2008-2010, on the Extended

First News We are headed to Barrow... Alaska that is. Normally when I think of going to Barrow I think of it in terms of approaching from the south-something like Missoula to Seattle to Anchorage to Fairbanks to Barrow gets you there. But we are approaching from the north and truth be told I will

First News Aaagh – the elusive Aurora Borealis aka Northern Lights. We southerners who come from the lower latitudes rarely if ever get a chance to see them. Usually when we do it is kind of a let down because they are faint or obscured by clouds etc. and we are left saying that the pictures of

News Update Yesterday after the successful deployment of Mooring B, we started heading south on the 150˚ W line, stopping along the way at two CTD stations CB8 and CB7 and arriving at CB4 mid-morning. Station CB4 is also known as the BGOS-A station that is the second mooring station: Mooring A

News Update 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 for the past day... but we have not. After the mooring was recovered yesterday we made our way towards the southeast to station CB12.5 at 77˚ 30’N, 145˚

Sea Ice vs. Land Ice: What’s the difference? During our live webinar there were many questions about sea ice so I thought I’d include a journal and some helpful links! Sea ice is frozen ocean water, which is different from glaciers and ice sheets which are land-based ice. Arctic sea ice can float

News Update 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 the first of several days of "mooring ops" and basically ITP/IMB deployment was the warm-up for the mooring deployments. Everything about the mooring

Beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) are at the highest trophic level of the ocean food web that we’re studying here at the top of the world in the Beaufort Sea. Despite not seeing any yet, I thought it was important to include a journal about these amazing animals. After all, Dr. Stafford heard