Two-icebreaker US-Canada experiment to identify the outer limits of the extended continental shelf of each nation in the western Arctic Ocean.
Location
Western Arctic Ocean;
Summary
Collected 12 kHz Bathymetry (Simrad EM122) to identify the 2500-meter contour on widely spaced tracklines. Multichannel seismic profiles were collected aboard the LOUIS S. ST. LAURENT to map sediment thicknesses.
No WHSC staff were aboard the Canadian ice breaker LOUIS S. ST. LAURENT (J. Childs, USGS-Menlo Park, CA will be liaison aboard LOUIS).
Project = Law of the Sea - New Data Acquisition, Law of the Sea - New Data Acquisition
