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Ice and snow sampling team members get ready to head out along the transect to measure ice thickness, drill ice cores, and dig snow pits.
(Hugo Sindelar)Donovan Tremblay (left) and Thomas Grevasse (right) drill an ice core.
(Hugo Sindelar)Cassandra Konecny records temperature data as Guillaume Paradis measures the ice core.
(Hugo Sindelar)Hayato Okuda (left) and Kazutoshi Sato (right) dig snow pits to measure the density, temperature, type, and grain size of the snow on top of the sea ice.
(Hugo Sindelar)The sunset from the bridge of the CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent.
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