ArcticNet Project 1.6
Active Researchers


Project 1.6 (the opening NorthWest Passage) is a multidisciplinary project as part of theme 1 of ArcticNet. The project is aimed at improving our knowledge of the geology and oceanography of the modern passage to understand the past conditions within the passage as well as predicting future conditions should the ice continue to recede.

The project's main three aspects are survey, palaeoceanography and geomorphology. The first aspect is mainly an engineering exercise with research focused on improved methods of geophysical imaging of the seabed morphology and composition as well as the shallow subsurface. This engineering research compliments the two other scientific aspects, palaeoceanography and geomorphology, using the survey data to investigate present, past and future geologic processes active in the passage.

The table below lists the currently active researchers/collaborators interested in, and using the underway geophysical data.

Name
 Association
 email
 Interests

Survey Engineering


John Hughes Clarke
 Ocean Mapping Group
Dept. Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering
University of New Brunswick
 jhc@omg.unb.ca
 Swath Sonar Data Manipulation and Analysis
Acoustic Seabed Interaction
Subbottom Profile manipulation
Peter Dare
 Geodetic Research Laboratory
Dept. Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering
University of New Brunswick		 dare@unb.ca
 Wide Area GPS vertical control
high latitude networks and datums
Jon Biggar
 Canadian Hydrographic Service
Central and Arctic Region
 BiggarJ@DFO-MPO.GC.CA
 Arctic Hydrographic Surveys

PalaeoOceanography


Andre Rochon
 Institut des sciences de la mer de Rimouski (ISMER)
Université du Québec à Rimouski 		andre_rochon@uqar.qc.ca
 Palynologie marine du Quaternaire (pollen, spores, kystes de dinoflagellés, acritarches), paléo-environnements marins anciens,
Trecia Schell
 Earth Sciences
Dalhousie University
 tschell@dal.ca
 Micropaleontology, Quaternary marine geology
David Scott
 Earth Sciences
Dalhousie University		 David.Scott@dal.ca
 Deep-sea paleo-oceanography
Micropaleontology
Quaternary Geology - Sea-level changes and environmental changes related to glacial periods

Arctic Geomorphology


Michel Allard
 Département de Géographie
Pavillon Charles-De Koninck
Université Laval 		Michel.Allard@cen.ulaval.ca
 Dynamics of northern landforms in response to climatic variations
Patrick  Lajeunesse Département de géographie
Université Laval 		ggrpla@hermes.ulaval.ca
patrick_lajeunesse@uqar.qc.ca
 geomorphology, sedimentology, glaciation,
ice-streams, submarine mass-movements, sea-level change.
John England
 Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta.
 john.england@ualberta.ca
 Environmental change in Arctic Canada: Ice age to present.
reconstruction of past ice sheets in the western Arctic

NRCan Scientists


Steve Blasco Geological Survey of Canada - Atlantic
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
 SBlasco@nrcan.gc.ca
 What doesn't he do?
Gary Sonnichsen
 Geological Survey of Canada - Atlantic
Bedford Institute of Oceanography		 gsonic@nrcan.gc.ca
 Arctic Marine Geology
Heiner Josenhans
 Geological Survey of Canada - Atlantic
Bedford Institute of Oceanography		 HJosenha@nrcan.gc.ca
 Hudson Bay, Quaternary Marine Geology
Don Forbes
 Geological Survey of Canada - Atlantic
Bedford Institute of Oceanography		 DForbes@nrcan.gc.ca
 Arctic Coastal Processes - Sea Level
Phil Hill Geological Survey of Canada - Pacific
Institute of Oceanographic Sciences
 phill@nrcan.gc.ca
 Hudson Bay geomorphology


last modified by JEHC - July 2004