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	The CCGS Amundsen – The Canadian Coast Guard’s New Scientific Icebreaker
		In 1911, Amundsen was also the first person to reach the South Pole, and in 1926, he became one of the first men to fly over the North Pole.
		The Amundsen will remain the property of the federal government and will be reserved half the year for exclusive use by the Canadian scientific community and the other half of the year for the Coast Guard’s regular operations, such as assisting in icebreaking activities in eastern Canada.
		The Amundsen will sail for the Arctic in early September and is scheduled to pass the very spot on King William Island where Amundsen and his crew prepared to spend their first winter.
	www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca /media/backgrou/2003/hqic-b_e.htm (516 words)

	The CCGS Amundsen - Marine and Ocean Industry Technology Roadmap
		The CCGS Amundsen - Marine and Ocean Industry Technology Roadmap
		The Amundsen will remain the property of the federal government and will be reserved half the year for exclusive use by the Canadian scientific community through the Arctic research consortium and the other half of the year for the Coast Guard's regular operations, such as assisting in icebreaking activities in eastern Canada.
		"CCGS Amundsen: A New Mapping Platform for Canada's North" by Jason Bartlett, Jonathan Beaudoin, John Hughes Clarke (http://www.omg.unb.ca/omg/papers/Lighthouse_work.doc)
	www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca /clusters/ocean/amundsen_e.html (251 words)

	NSERC - Icebound – and Loving It
		While the ice around the Amundsen is a metre thick, Dr. Barber says they have access to sea water through a “moon pool” (a sea-level access door) in the middle of the ship.
		Graduate students aboard the Amundsen are participating in the research, and their roles are linked directly with educational experiences.
		When the Amundsen is freed from the ice in the spring it will move further out to sea and study a polynya, an area of open water surrounded by sea ice.
	www.nserc.ca /news/stories/icebound_e.htm (835 words)

	ALIAS
		Amundsen has been converted into a state-of-the-art science vessel with capacity to conduct ocean-floor mapping and shallow marine drilling operations, wet and dry laboratories, meteorological instruments, the ability to take ocean samples in extreme weather conditions through an access hole in the vessel's bottom hull, and many other science features.
		Amundsen is the property of the Canadian federal government and will be reserved half the year for exclusive use by the Canadian scientific community and the other half of the year for the Coast Guard's regular operations, such as assisting in icebreaking activities in eastern Canada.
		On September 13th, CCGS Amundsen left her homeport of Québec City for a one-year mission in the high Canadian Arctic, to study the Mackenzie Shelf ecosystem.
	siempre.arcus.org /4DACTION/wi_alias_fsDrawPage/1/124 (364 words)

	Glossary - Sila
		Inaugurated on August 26 2003, the CCGS Amundsen is one of the few Canadian Coast Guard vessels to have a dual purpose.
		During half the year, the Amundsen is reserved for exclusive use by a Canadian-led scientific consortium, such as the Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study, while the other half remains dedicated to the Coast Guard's icebreaking operations.
		The CCGS Amundsen was newly named after Roald Amundsen, a notable Norwegian explorer of the Canadian Arctic who was the first person to navigate the Northwest Passage 100 years ago, from 1903 to 1906.
	www.nature.ca /sila/glssry_e.cfm (3655 words)

	Canadian Coast Guard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		CCG is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario and is the responsibility of the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
		CCG maintains a number of major bases and operating locations/stations on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, as well as in the St. Lawrence River, Great Lakes and major navigable inland waterways such as Lake of the Woods, Lake Winnipeg, and Great Slave Lake/Mackenzie River.
		From the 1960s-1990s, CCG did experiment with painting primary SAR vessels in a colour scheme with a yellow superstructure and red hull, meant to distinguish them from navaid tenders and icebreakers, and also to improve their visibility on the open ocean with a breaking waves environment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_Coast_Guard (2486 words)

	ABSTRACT: Seabed processes and geological structure of the Northwest Passage. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In August-October 2006, multibeam echosounder and subbottom profiler data were collected by the CCGS Amundsen and multibeam launch Heron through the Northwest Passage as part of ArcticNet project 1.6.
		Amundsen data are being used to identify vent and seep location and to assess the amount of activity.
		The Amundsen conducted multibeam and subbottom profile transects across the outer Beaufort Shelf to assess geological processes influencing benthic ecosystems.
	cgrg.geog.uvic.ca /abstracts/BennettSeabedIn.html (451 words)

	Nunatsiaq News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Louis Fortier, one of ArcticNet's lead scientists, describes to Nunavut dignitaries on Monday how researchers on board the icebreaker CCGS Amundsen are studying the effects of climate change in the Arctic.
		The CCGS Amundsen called at Iqaluit this past Monday, after sailing through the waters of the Northwest Passage from Kugluktuk.
		During this leg of the Amundsen's voyage, researchers will collect sediment samples at several of Labrador's scenic fiords, to study contamination at abandoned U.S. radar stations, and a nearby nickel, copper and cobalt mine.
	www.nunatsiaq.com /news/nunavut/61103_07.html (699 words)

	Networks of Centres of Excellence - Newsletter
		Their main research platform is the CCGS Amundsen research icebreaker, a retrofitted Canadian Coast Guard vessel which began crisscrossing the Canadian Arctic in 2003 to investigate the environmental, social and economic impacts of a warming Arctic.
		Another group of ArcticNet researchers, led by Dr. John Hughes Clarke at the University of New Brunswick and Dr. Steve Blasco at the Geological Survey of Canada in Dartmouth NS, are using the Canadian research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen to map the seabed topography and the geological structure of the Northwest Passage.
		John Hughes Clarke onboard the CCGS Amundsen, analysing a print-out of the EM300 multibeam sonar.
	www.nce.gc.ca /pubs/ncenet-telerce/winter2006/arcticnet-win06_e.htm (1190 words)

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		Every summer, the Amundsen is charted by a scientific consortium, in winter, the vessel takes part in the Coast Guard`s icebreaking operations.
		The size of her crew depends on the type of mission and the area to which she is deployed.
		The Amundsen’s electric diesel engines, which generate 11 155 kW, and the adjusted shape of its hull enable her to navigate at 3 knots in ice that is one metre thick.
	www.marinfo.gc.ca /en/General/Missions.asp (306 words)

	Innovation Canada \| Keeping Our True North, Strong and Free \| Stuart McCarthy
		The Amundsen at her winter station during the CASES 2003-2004 overwintering expedition.
		When the research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen left port this past August for its second extended research mission into Canada’s Arctic, some of its scientific crew went with the goal to confirm a rather chilling breakthrough.
		She was rechristened the CCGS Amundsen, honouring the legendary Arctic explorer, befitting of her new role as a research icebreaker.
	www.innovationcanada.ca /19/en/articles/north.html (946 words)

	IPY: International Polar Year
		The Canadian research icebreaker Amundsen is a 100-m, 5400-ton, state-of-the-art research platform dedicated to providing such access for oceanographers, geologists, terrestrial ecologists, epidemiologists, archaeologists, and anthropologists.
		The Amundsen was mobilized for science by a Consortium of researchers from Canadian universities and Federal institutions funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
		The wealth of new data recorded by the instrumentation of the Amundsen is pushing the frontiers of knowledge in the Arctic Ocean (Theme 4).
	www.ipy.org /development/eoi/details.php?id=673 (1314 words)

	Melting Arctic Makes Way for Man - washingtonpost.com
		The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Amundsen met a plate of "new ice" on the Northwest Passage, but it was easily traversed.
		The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Amundsen weaves in graceful slow motion through the ice pack, advancing through the legendary Northwest Passage well after the Arctic should be iced over and shuttered to ships for the winter.
		The Amundsen is here to challenge the ice that has long guarded the legendary Northwest Passage across the roof of the Earth, and to plumb the scientific mysteries of an Arctic thawing from global warming.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/04/AR2006110401173.html (825 words)

	EnviroZine - Print Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The CCGS Amundsen, a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker, her crew and scientific entourage returned safely to port last fall after a year of conducting new scientific research in the Northwest Passage of Canada's Arctic.
		The vessel, newly christened before she set sail, was named after Roald Amundsen, a notable Norwegian explorer of the Canadian Arctic who was the first person to navigate the Northwest Passage 100 years ago.
		From 1903 to 1906, Amundsen successfully sailed a 70-foot fishing boat through the entire length of the Northwest Passage, having to wait sometimes for months on end for the ice to thaw enough to allow his vessel passage.
	www.ec.gc.ca /EnviroZine/english/issues/51/print_version_e.cfm?page=feature2 (747 words)

	CBC News In Depth: Arctic Diary
		I'm joining the CCGS Amundsen during one of the crew changeovers that happens every six weeks.
		The Amundsen is a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker that doubles as a scientific research vessel.
		I'd heard several times before I left that the crew of the Amundsen ate well, and as we passed cases of fresh fruit, vegetables, and dairy along a line of people from the heli-pad to the walk-in refrigerators below, it was evident that they ate a lot as well.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/arctic-diary/sept28.html (1963 words)

	NSERC - Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study (CASES)
		During a successful preliminary five-week expedition to the Beaufort Sea on board the CCGS Radisson in September-October 2002, 45 researchers conducted an initial survey of the biology and biogeochemistry of the Mackenzie Shelf and Amundsen Gulf, and moored 18 instruments lines in key locations.
		The CCGS Amundsen over-wintering in the ice of Franklin Bay as part of CASES.
		The main thrust of the CASES field program is the ongoing one-year expedition to the study area from September 2003 to August 2004, on board the CCGS Amundsen, the new Canadian research icebreaker.
	www.nserc.ca /programs/resnet/cases_e.htm (578 words)

	ABSTRACT: 3-D multibeam mapping reveals geological processes associated with fluted seabed, pockmarks, mud volcanoes, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		During the summers of 2003-04, the research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen and coastal vessel CCGS Nahidik were used to collect digital, georeferenced marine geophysical data in the Beaufort Sea and Amundsen Gulf as part of the Beaufort Shelf seabed stability and Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Studies (CASES).
		A 300 kHz Kongsberg-Simrad EM3000 multibeam echosounder was mounted on a launch on CCGS Nahidik which towed a 4 kHz Seistec subbottom profiler.
		Streamlined fluting and crag-and-tail features in about 400 m of water on the bottom of Amundsen Gulf are on strike and similar in morphology to features on Victoria Island to the east.
	cgrg.geog.uvic.ca /abstracts/Blasco3-DDuring.html (426 words)

	Nunatsiaq News
		Canadian Research Icebreaker CCGS Amundsen samples in a fjord off Baffin Island.
		As of Monday, the Amundsen was in the St. Lawrence River on its way to the Labrador Sea where the first sampling will begin.
		The Amundsen, which first set sail as a dedicated science platform in the fall of 2003, is just one of several programs being co-ordinated through ArcticNet, an umbrella research project that involves some 250 researchers from around the world.
	www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/50812/news/nunavut/50812_08.html (623 words)

	Qanuippitaa? Nunavik Health Survey
		The CCGS Amundsen's journey around Nunavik is now over.
		To mark the event, he was treated to a complete visit of the ship, along with other...
		From left to right: the 1000th participant in the Health Survey posing with the GGCS Amundsen's Captain, Germain Tremblay, the Clinical Coordinator, Suzanne CÃ´tÃ©, and the Health Survey's Mission Chief, Suzanne Bruneau.
	www.qanuippitaa.com /en/index.aspx (97 words)

	IPY: International Polar Year
		Emphasis will be on the influence of freeze-thaw cycles as critical thresholds for water supply, energy transfer, solute and sediment mobilization and other terrestrial and freshwater processes.
		3) coastal transects using the Canadian research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen and aircraft-based logistics to define climate-related gradients, to elucidate mechanisms via onboard experiments and measurements, and to ground-truth satellite data including MERIS and RADARSAT-2.
		In 2008 a full transect cruise on the CCGS Amundsen is planned, with researchers from Antarctic as well as Arctic programs to facilitate a bipolar transfer of expertise, protocols and knowledge.
	www.ipy.org /development/eoi/details.php?id=526 (1069 words)

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		That meeting could prove a big headache for Canada in particular because the national climate change strategy is in a shambles and the patchwork Northern science program still suffers from large gaps despite some promising recent initiatives.
		One initiative that directly addresses many of the assessment's concerns is the first expedition by the CCGS Amundsen, a medium-class icebreaker refurbished as a floating polar research station at a cost of $30 million.
		Currently winding up its first 12 months in the Arctic, the Amundsen is the lynchpin of two major multi-year undertakings to understand climate change from the level of microscopic plankton up to the health of Inuit communities.
	www.climateark.org /shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=34459 (1330 words)

	Brooke Ocean Technology Limited - Press Release (November 19, 2003)
		On September 13th, 2003, the newly upgraded CCGS Amundsen (previously the CCGS Franklin) left Quebec City for the Beaufort Sea equipped with a MOVING VESSEL PROFILER (MVP) 300-3400 and a CTD Rosette Handling System developed by Brooke Ocean Technology Limited.
		As part of the Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study (CASES), the new Canadian research icebreaker’s first international research mission will be to spend the winter in the icy waters of the Mackenzie Shelf to study the annual cycle of this poorly known ecosystem threatened by the present warming of the Arctic.
		The Amundsen is using an EM300 Multi-beam Sonar to produce the first pictures of the arctic ocean floor in high-resolution.
	www.brooke-ocean.com /pr_2003-11-19.html (478 words)

	CBC Radio \| Quirks & Quarks \| October 14, 2006
		To understand what those changes will mean for the life and landscape of the North, Canadian researchers are working on the Coast Guard Icebreaker Amundsen, which has been specially refitted as a science research vessel.
		On this week's show we look at the people working and exploring the Arctic aboard the Amundsen, and how they're doing their work.
		Marie-Emmanuelle Rail from Quebec's INRS at the University of Quebec, and Luc Michaud from Laval University's Biology Department show him the equipment they use to take samples and oceanographic data on the voyages.
	www.cbc.ca /quirks/archives/06-07/oct14.html (650 words)

	Games » CCGs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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		with the Government of Quebec and Government of Manitoba to improve and increase research equipment onboard the Canadian research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen.
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	www.activeweblinks.com /Games/CCGs (106 words)

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	Arctic Ocean Sciences Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The CCGS Amundsen sailing the Northwest passage along Devon Island on her inaugural voyage to the Mackenzie shelf area.
		The original perspective of the IAPP terms of reference was a bold one of polynyas as potential bellweathers of climate change in the Arctic.
		In 2002 long-term moorings were deployed on the Mackenzie Shelf from the CCG Wilfred Laurier in late Summer and an IAPP-trademark interdisciplinary cruise was accomplished aboard the CCG Pierre Radisson in Fall (as summarized by Deming, Fortier and Fortier in the AOSB Newsletter of December 2002).
	www.aosb.org /IAPP.html (2976 words)

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