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REGION FOCUS NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR

Experts on IceExperts on Ice

Canatec hether chiseling it off their windshield or tracking and predicting its movements in the North Atlantic Ocean and beyond, Newfoundlanders and Labradorians know ice. Experts in the province are among the fore- most in the world in ice surveillance, monitoring and management.

W to simulate Arctic phenomena. Models

C-CORE PAL

C-CORE, (Center for Cold Ocean ranging from scales of 1:2 to 1:200 are

Flying maritime surveillance aircraft

Resource Engineering), has developed precisely constructed and placed under for over 35 years for government, mili- tools to forecast iceberg movement centrifuge tests that can simulate years tary, and industry, Provincial Aerospace and prepare mitigation strategies. It’s a of freezing and thawing, and its effects (PAL) also has a long history of tracking simulation-based toolbox, taking into on ocean equipment such as platforms, ice movements, having provided such consideration factors like iceberg loca- vessels, and pipelines. Having kept its services to operators off Canada’s east tion and size, number of icebergs, what eyes on ice for decades, C-CORE – locat- coast for over twenty years. From its tow vessels are available in the