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| Aerial View of the CCGS Hudson |
Thanks to everyone for your contributions to the meeting yesterday (May 10, 2011). We will take your suggestions into consideration and produce a revised mission plan by the end of the week. Please let us know by the end of the day Thursday (May 12, 2011) if you have any further suggestions and we'll try our best to incorporate it in the mission GIS project.
The mission details are still being ironed out, but a draft mission plan will be produced soon and posted on this site for further comment prior to our departure. What we do know is that the Hudson will sail from June 4th to June 14th. We will visit 3 main sites (figure below): Emerald Basin (1) where the world's largest concentration of the glass sponge Vazella pourtalesi exists, the Laurentian Channel (2) where the worlds highest concentration of sea-pens exists (order Pennatulacea), and then on to the Gully Marine Protected Area (3) to investigate a geological feature at the mouth of the canyon that, from early evidence, appears to play a role in providing suitable habitat for sea birds and northern bottlenose whales.
A pdf copy of yesterday's presentation is available here for those who wish to see it. Please visit the Sailwx website for more information on Hudson's current location. I checked this morning and her last update was Apr 22 at 1200. She's currently in the Labrador Sea and I'm hoping for our trip this link will work for family and friends to track our progress.
Please let me know of any interesting links that you think we could post on the blog.
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| Station Locaitons - 1 Emerald Basin; 2 Laurentian Channel; 3 Gully MPA |
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