Expedition Expedition | People | More Pictures | Maps Principal Investigators Humfrey Melling Chief Scientist Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada Humfrey is a physical oceanographer with research interests in high latitude oceanography and sea ice. With technical and scientific colleagues at the Institute of Ocean Sciences, Humfrey pioneered the application of aircraft-based techniques to the study of ice-covered oceans. Since 1980, he has carried out a wide variety of ocean measurements using such techniques in the Beaufort Sea, the Arctic Ocean and the myriad channels of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. [more at http://www-sci.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/osap/people/mell ing_e.htm] Kelly Falkner Scientist [Profile] Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon Kelly was Chief Scientist on the 2003 Nares Strait expedition of the Healy. She is a chemical oceanographer with over 10 years experience working in Arctic regions. Her interests range and cover many areas that include physics, geology, chemistry, and people aspects of oceanography. The Canadian Archipelago Throughflow Study is many ways a synthesis of her skills. Kelly also contributes significantly to the North Pole observatory which consists of collecting water samples regularily for analyses of water mass tracers between northern Ellesmere Island and the North Pole. [more at http://chemoc.coas.oregonstate.edu:16080/~kkfalkner] Andreas Münchow Scientist [Profile] University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware Andreas is a physical oceanographer who focuses on coastal and Arctic dynamics. He has sailed mostly on Canadian icebreakers over the last 10 years with an expertise to measure ocean currents using acoustic Doppler current profilers. Andreas will conduct processing of the data from recovered moored instruments for quality assurance before they redeployed. [more at http://newark.cms.udel.edu/~muenchow] clear=all> Professionals David Huntley Mooring Technician University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware David is the mooring technician responsible who will work on all aspects of the instruments to be recovered and re-deployed on this expedition. David has sailed on Canadian icebreakers since 1997 and involved himself in all aspects of sea-going oceanography. [more at http://copland.udel.edu/~dhuntley] Ron Lindsey Electronics Technician Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada Ron provides electronic support for oceanographic instrumentation, acoustic releases, CTD casts, and ADCP moorings. He ensures that necessary signals get transmitted to these instruments. He repairs, modifies, and upgrades equipment to make sure it serves the needs of the scientists. Helen Johnson Post Doctoral Fellow with Ocean Physics and School of Earth and Ocean Sciences University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Helen uses models, observations, and theory to understand more about the global ocean circulation, ocean mixing, and the flow through straits. She recently completed a PhD thesis on the Atlantic thermohaline overturning circulation, for which freshwater input from the Arctic is crucial. [more at http://maelstrom.seos.uvi.ca/people/helen] Students Lauren Brown Undergraduate Student University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware Lauren is an undergraduate Physics major. She will serve as the web-master for these pages processing and posting content that we hope to send to her from the field. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0230236. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.