Working aboard a science at sea mission
Watch how our scientists at sea work around the clock to gather the science needed to make informed decisions about the protection of aquatic ecosystems like Canada’s Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound Glass Sponge Reefs Marine Protected Area.
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The Department of Fisheries and Oceans needs to develop a monitoring plan to be able to see how well the protected are is doing over time.
Being at sea, operations are 24/7. Ship time is pretty much at a premium so you want to maximize your time.
We’ll be split up into two crews, day shift and night shift because we’re working 24 hours per day.
We switch over our crew at 6 in the morning. ROPOS is going to be coming up out of the water and I’ll find out all the things that it did last night. We turn it over, as in we pull everything off. We sort the data, deal with the samples and put it back together. Do all the checks and the sub will go back down again.
We got all the samples that we wished for. So now, there’s going to be a few months of data analysis and then we will have our answers.
We truly are a maritime nation. It’s important for us to go to sea to understand the very complex ocean ecosystem. To protect it, you have to understand it.
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