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Total days at sea: 40
Distances travelled: 7 290 nm
2022 EXPEDITION REPORT (coming soon)
2022 EXPEDITION SUMMARY (non-technical report)
2022 ᖃᐅᔨᓴᐃᓂᕐᒥᑦ ᓇᐃᒡᓕᒋᐊᖅᓯᒪᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᓕᐊᖑᓯᒪᔪᑦ (non-technical report, Inuktitut)
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Total days at sea: 122
Distances travelled: 17 968 nm
2021 EXPEDITION REPORT (complete report)
2021 EXPEDITION SUMMARY (non-technical report)
2021 ᖃᐅᔨᓴᐃᓂᕐᒥᑦ ᓇᐃᒡᓕᒋᐊᖅᓯᒪᓪᓗᒋᑦ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᓕᐊᖑᓯᒪᔪᑦ (non-technical report, Inuktitut)
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Total days at sea: 96
Distances travelled: 16 174 nm
2020 EXPEDITION REPORT (complete report)
2020 EXPEDITION SUMMARY (non-technical report)
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Total days at sea: 104
Distances travelled: 14 377 nm
2019 ODYSSÉS SAINT-LAURENT EXPEDITION REPORT (french)
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Total days at sea: 122
Distances travelled: 19 072 nm
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Total days at sea: 112
Distances travelled: 8 578 nm
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Total days at sea: 125
Distances travelled: 17 812 nm
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Total days at sea: 115
Distances travelled: 20 512 nm
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Total days at sea: 97
Distances travelled: 20 094 nm
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Total days at sea: 52
Distances travelled: 11 692 nm
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Total days at sea: 105
Distances travelled: 19 958 nm
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Total days at sea: 124
Distances travelled: 22 231 nm
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Total days at sea: 168
Distances travelled: 28 380 nm
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Total days at sea: 80
Distances travelled: 14 155 nm
On 22 August 2006 the CCGS Amundsen left Quebec City for an 80-day expedition in support of ArcticNet’s research activities. In addition to extensive oceanographic and biological sampling, the CSL Heron hydrographic launch was deployed to augment the Amundsen’s seabed and benthic mapping capacity in support of a collaborative project between ArcticNet and Parks Canada in the eastern Arctic.
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Total days at sea: 83
Distances travelled: 15 088 nm
The CCGS Amundsen left Quebec City on 5 August 2005 for an 84-day expedition to the Canadian Arctic in support of ArcticNet’s marine-based research program. Over 200 stations were sampled for oceanographic, atmospheric, biological, and seabed properties from Baffin Bay, through Hudson Bay and the Northwest Passage to the Beaufort Sea.
From 28 August to 4 October 2004, the CCGS Amundsen was transformed into a floating research clinic to carry out the Qanuippitaa? (How are we?) Inuit Health Survey. A multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses and scientists used the ship to visit the 14 coastal communities of Nunavik (Northern Quebec) in order to assess the overall health of over 1000 Nunavik residents by evaluating their lifestyle, diet, incidence of heart disease, bone density, safety habits and exposure to environmental contaminants. Cutting edge medical equipment, not readily available in the North, was installed on board the vessel to allow for mammography, carotid thickness and bone densitometry testing.
Through such surveys, better preventive and curative actions can be taken to increase the quality of health care and disease prevention in the North. During the survey, researchers also conducted complementary studies on health (ex. drinking water quality, emerging infectious diseases, chronic diseases) and on physical properties of the Nunavik coastal environment.
The survey was co-funded by the Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux du Québec (MSSS), the Regional Board of Health and Social Services of Nunavik, ArcticNet, the Northern Contaminants Program and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study (CASES) Research Network was an international Canadian-led effort under Canadian leadership to understand the biogeochemical and ecological consequences of sea ice variability and change on the Mackenzie Shelf in the eastern Beaufort Sea. The scientific program of CASES was underpinned by the simple central hypothesis that the atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic forcing of sea ice variability dictates the nature and magnitude of biogeochemical carbon fluxes on and at the edge of the Mackenzie Shelf.
The main thrust of the CASES field program was the one-year expedition of the CCGS Amundsen to the Mackenzie Shelf. Over 200 scientists belonging to teams from Canada, Denmark, Japan, Norway, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States took rotations on the CCGS Amundsen to study all aspects of the ecosystem from September 2003 to September 2004. This Arctic mission of unprecedented scope comprised three major parts: (1) a fall survey covering the entire study area from September to December 2003, including the recovery of the 8 moorings deployed from the CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 2002 and the deployment of 17 new mooring arrays; (2) the over-wintering of the ship in Franklin Bay for the monitoring of the winter evolution of the ecosystem; and (3) the spring/summer spatial survey of the region to monitor the break-up of the stamukhi, the opening of the Cape Bathurst polynya and the development of the summer ecosystem, including the recovery in August/September 2004 of the oceanographic moorings, of which 7 were redeployed.
The highly successful CASES program has initiated on-going time-series of key measurements of the response of the marine ecosystem to change that have been expanded to other Arctic regions through the ArcticNet project and the International Polar Year.