Qikiqtaaluk Corporation Orders Kraken Synthetic Aperture Sonar for Arctic AUV Survey
the Arctic. Delivery is expected in 2023 and the contract value is more than $600,000, Kraken Robotics said.Qikiqtaaluk Corporation is the for-profit economic development arm of the Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA), focused on strengthening the social and economic well-being of the Qikiqtani region of Nunavut and its Inuit people. Qikiqtaaluk Corporation will use Kraken’s SAS in a variety of applications in Canada’s north including ghost fishing detection, seabed and habitat classification, environmental monitoring, and scientific research.“Qikiqtaaluk Corporation is very pleased
Climate Change is Flooding the Arctic with Light – and New Species
have nowhere to go, and could disappear altogether. More temperate kelp species may replace endemic Arctic kelps such as Laminaria solidungula.But kelp are just one set of species among many pushing further and deeper into the region as the ice melts.Arctic invasionsMilne Inlet, on north Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, sees more marine traffic than any other port in Arctic Canada. Most days during the open-water period, 300-metre-long ships leave the port laden with iron ore from the nearby Mary River Mine. Between 71 and 82 ships pass through the area annually, most heading to — or coming from
Kraken Finalizes OceanVision Contract
Kraken Robotics Inc. announced its wholly owned subsidiary, Kraken Robotic Systems Inc., has finalized the contract for the OceanVision project with the Ocean Supercluster and industry partners (Petroleum Research Newfoundland and Labrador, Ocean Choice International and Nunavut Fisheries Association).OceanVision is a three-year, $18.8 million project focused on the development of new marine technologies and products to enable an underwater robotics data acquisition and data analytics as a service business. Under the OceanVision project, Canada's Ocean Supercluster will provide an investment up to
Kraken Wins Canadian Government Contract
; Underwater Archaeology Team (UAT) during the third quarter of 2020. Parks Canada and Kraken plan to conduct at-sea testing and evaluation of the SeaVision system at a variety of archaeologically significant sites including the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror at the National Historic Site of Canada, Nunavut.Kraken was previously involved in Parks Canada’s discovery of the HMS Erebus during the Franklin Expedition in Summer 2014.The SeaVision system delivers real-time, full color 3D point cloud images of subsea infrastructure with millimeter accuracy. These datasets create highly detailed models
Canada to Study Shipping's Environmental Impact
will ultimately ensure the decision on which assessment tool to use is based on facts.Data will be collected in six pilot sites: Northern British Columbia, Southern British Columbia, the St. Lawrence River (Quebec), the Bay of Fundy (New Brunswick), the South Coast of Newfoundland, and Cambridge Bay (Nunavut).This $95,000 investment is part of the $9.3 million Cumulative Effects of Marine Shipping Initiative under the Oceans Protection Plan. Engagement with Indigenous and coastal communities to outline a framework for this national initiative began in the fall of 2017.To date, the government has announced
All Hands on Deck: ROVs and AUVs Aid Search for Franklin
you want but you’re still in many ways at the mercy of the elements, and that’s certainly our experience up north since 2008,” said Harris. Inuit’s traditional knowledge directed the team to the Queen Maud Gulf, a body of water farther south of King William Island in Nunavut, where HMS Erebus was eventually discovered. While the Erebus discovery validated Inuit accounts in terms of there being a wreck somewhere in Wilmot and Crampton Bay, this still prescribed an enormous area, in excess of 800 square kilometers, to be systematically scanned over five years. Supported
Second Ship of Franklin Arctic Voyage Found, Canada Confirms
has become part of Canadian folklore, in part because of the crew's appalling fate. Tales handed down from the Inuit people describe cannibalism among the desperate seamen. Parks Canada will determine ownership in conjunction with the Inuit aboriginals in the northernmost Canadian territory of Nunavut and unnamed "government organizations," the agency said, without giving details. (Reporting by Ethan Lou in Toronto; Editing by Dan Grebler
AZFP used in Arctic for Zooplankton Research
Fiord with co-located Optical Plankton Counter data. The four-frequency (125, 200, 455 and 769 kHz) AZFP with cage and floatation from ASL’s lease pool was shipped to rendezvous with the Arctic equipment. The instrument was deployed in Pangnirtung Fiord in the Canadian territory of Nunavut and floated at the surface off a small locally contracted vessel (Peter’s Expediting & Outfitting). Unfortunately, extreme and unusual ice conditions (the presence of thick, multi-year ice) prevented deployment in Cumberland Sound where she conducts most of her PhD research near bowhead
VENUS Seafloor Observatory: 10 Years of Operation
10 year milestone is a testament to the durability and redundancy that is inherent in the OceanWorks VENUS Nodes and SIIMs. Ocean Networks Canada operates the NEPTUNE and VENUS cabled observatories in the northeast Pacific Ocean and the Salish Sea, and a community-based observatory in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut
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