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Richard Akana of Kugluktuk and Becky Segal (Masters student at University of Victoria Department of Geography).
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Maia Hoeberechts, Associate Director User Services keeping warm while out on a site visit in Cambridge Bay
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Mercedes McLean, ONC’s Indigenous Community Learning Coordinator
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Mercedes McLean, ONC’s Indigenous Community Learning Coordinator sits next to an impressive crack in the sea-ice in Cambridge Bay
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A site visit by snowmobile and sled up the Kugluktuk River with local guide Richard Adjun. Stopping briefly to learn more about the ice fishery taking place along the frozen river.
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Whitefish being harvested from beneath the sea ice by students at Kugluktuk High School
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Mercedes McLean, Ocean Networks Canada’s Indigenous Community Learning Coordinator connects with Mia Otokiak’s grandmother Leonie Aaluk at the public meeting Ocean Networks Canada hosted in Gjoa Haven.
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Gjoa Haven carver Joseph Suqslak And Maia Hoeberechts with one of Joseph’s carvings depicting a polar bear emerging from the water
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While visiting Gjoa Haven, Ocean Networks Canada staff travelled onto the sea-ice with local guides for a site visit to better understand sea-ice conditions: freeze-up, sea-ice roughness, sea-ice thickness, and overall conditions and changes in the sea-ic
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It takes a team to chisel holes in the ice to monitor sea ice thickness. Adrienne Tivy (Canadian Ice Service), Mercedes McLean (ONC), Isaac Tavalok (Gjoa Haven HTA), Laura Eerkes-Medrano (UVIC Geography), Brandon Qirqqut, Johnny Tavalok, Becky Segal (UVIC
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Isaac Tavalok (Gjoa Haven HTA) and Laura Eerkes-Medrano (UVIC Geography) taking a break on the front of one of the sleds during a sea-ice site visit in Gjoa Haven
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Danny Aaluk, a Gjoa Haven artist with two of his detailed pen and ink drawings of the arctic wildlife with Maia Hoeberechts
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While visiting the communities of Kugluktuk, Cambridge Bay, and Gjoa Haven, the Ocean Networks Canada team visited local schools to connect teachers and students with ocean science.
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Inuktitut language posters highlight the connection between Inuit culture and the ocean at the Gjoa Haven Elementary School
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A snowy stop sign in the heart of Gjoa Haven, with “stop” also written in Inuktitut
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Pearlie-Mae Howard, ONC’s newest Youth Science ambassador, in Cambridge Bay
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Pearlie-Mae Howard, ONC’s Youth Science Ambassador and Tetra Aaluk taking snow depth measurements at one of two monitoring stations Ocean Networks Canada has set up in Cambridge Bay as part of the Polar Knowledge Canada funded Safe Passage Program
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Nunavut Arctic College Environmental Program students conducting several CTD casts near the Ocean networks Canada Cambridge Bay Community Observatory
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Maia Hoeberechts, Associate Director User Services smiling beneath a frozen scarf while out on the sea-ice in Cambridge Bay
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Martin Hoffman conducts diagnostic maintenance tests on the Ocean Networks Canada Cambridge Bay Community Observatory shore station
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A curious arctic fox approaches the group while conducting a site visit on the sea-ice in Cambridge Bay
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The ONC team standing on the back of the Martin Bergmann
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View of the new Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS)
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The Cambridge Bay subsea observatory is deployed for another year
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The amazing ONC team in Cambridge Bay
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Members of the Cambridge Bay community gather to view the underwater observatory and chat with ONC staff
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Members of the Cambridge Bay community gather to view the underwater observatory and chat with ONC staff
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Students make calendar predictions for the time capsule
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Items for the time capsule! What will happen to them in a year under sea ice?
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Students in Cambridge Bay make their predictions on a calendar
