Expedition Expedition | People | More Pictures | Maps Principal Investigators Kelly Falkner Chemical Oceanography [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 Physical Oceanography [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] Humfrey Melling Physical Oceanography 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] Robie Macdonald Chemical Oceanography Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada Robie is spearheading the clam retrieval and analysis to investigate the environmental conditions that Arctic clams record in their annual growth layers not unlike trees do in their tree rings. Students Lauren Brown Undergraduate Student University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware Lauren is an undergraduate Physics major. She participated in the 2003 expedition where she monitored ADCP data collection and, perhaps more importantly, translated text and graphics into web-pages. iN 2005 Lauren will again serve as the web-master for these pages processing and posting content that we hope to send to her from the field. She is working on a number of Arctic data analyses and interpretation projects. [more at http://newark.cms.udel.edu/~lbrown] Melissa Zweng MS-2004 University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware Melissa is a physical oceanographer who successfully defended her MS-thesis in 2004. She was working with Andreas on a study of the temporal evolution of Baffin Bay waters during the 20th century. She discovered a significant warming trend in its deep waters. As an undergraduate Naval Engineering she had to familiarize herself with the technical details of ships. She participated in the 2003 expedition where duties at sea included the collection and processing of both hydrographic and velocity measurements. [more at http://newark.cms.udel.edu/~mzweng] Scott McAulliffe MS-2005 [profile] Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon Scott just completed his MS in Marine Resource Management working closely with Kelly Falkner. He participated in the 2003 expedition when he was responsible for bottle salinity determinations. During his visit to local communities on Greenland and Ellesmere Island he provided feedback to and from those communities furthering the goals of this project and his research interest in Marine Science Outreach. He is also an outstanding photographer. Helga Schaffrin PhD Student New York University, New York, New York Helga is finishing her last year of graduate school at the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York University, where she pursues a Ph.D. in mathematics. Her area of research is the mathematical modeling of sea ice dynamics. The goal is to explain and predict the occurrence of ice-bridges in the Canadian Archipelago. Participating in this project, she observed Arctic ice phenomena personally. Moreover, she gained insight into the data collection process in the field of (high latitude) oceanography. Pauloosie (Paul) Akeegok Undergraduate Student Nunavut Sivuniksavut College, Ottawa, Canada Paul assisted in the sampling of seawater, mooring, discovery and sampling of clam beds, record wildlife sightings. He kept the Nunavut communities informed about our experiments and reported back to the Nunavet Research Institute. Pauloosie is exploring career options through this experience as do all other students working on experiment. 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.