Governor General Julie Payette will take part in a 36-hour scientific workshop on aboard the Canadian Research Icebreaker CCGS Amundsen. She will be joined by Minister Science and Sport Kirsty Duncan (Etobicoke North, Ont.), Dr. Mona Nemer, Canada’s Chief Science Advisor, and Stevie Komoartok, Mayor of the Hamlet of Pangnirtung. Call 613-998-0287.
Since July 16, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen has been in the High Arctic to learn methods and techniques for conducting geological fieldwork that could be applied to future missions on the Moon or an asteroid. Hansen is accompanying Western University's Dr. Osinski and his team from the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration … Read more
For five weeks in August and September 2010, the Canadian icebreaker CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent and the U.S. icebreaker USCGC Healy will be teaming up for the third time to conduct a joint survey of the extended continental shelf in the western Arctic. Call 613-995-1851.
