Join the Line P team as they take part in their first survey of the year where they’ll tell you all about life at sea while completing the water and plankton sampling work they do aboard the CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
Having started in the 1950s, the Line P program is one of the longest standing oceanographic datasets used to track how a changing climate effects the ocean. The program both monitors properties of the water itself (which tells us about the health of the ecosystems beneath the waves) and hosts researchers from around the world who are interested in learning about ocean physics, chemistry, and biology. This work is so important to continue as the health of the ocean affects us all and we need to track the changes the ocean is experiencing in order to know how we need to adapt.
Chloe Immonen has been an oceanographer at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans for a little over three years and she LOVES being at sea! In fact, that’s probably where she’s happiest, apart from when she’s hiking mountains with her dog Billie. Chloe is very lucky to get to live aboard Canadian Coast Guard ships for a few months of every year doing science with her awesome colleagues.
