Reports of Humpback and Minke Whales in the Hudson Bay Region, Eastern Canadian Arctic

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 370-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff W. Higdon ◽  
Steven H. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Hudson Bay ◽  
Minke Whales ◽  
Eastern Canadian Arctic

Two Assemblages of Marine Algae from Post-Glacial Deposits in the Eastern Canadian Arctic

1972 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. I. Illman ◽  
J. McLachlan ◽  
T. Edelstein
Keyword(s):  
Marine Algae ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Species Assemblages ◽  
Hudson Bay ◽  
Baffin Island ◽  
Glacial Deposits ◽  
Eastern Canadian Arctic

The marine algae of the post-glacial deposits from the Ottawa Islands, Hudson Bay and Broughton Island off East Baffin Island were examined. A total of 15 non-calcareous species were identified, of which the most abundant at both sites were Sphacelaria plumosa and Desmarestia aculeata. The species assemblages are characteristic of present-day arctic and subarctic floras.

scholarly journals A first assessment of microplastics and other anthropogenic particles in Hudson Bay and the surrounding eastern Canadian Arctic waters of Nunavut

FACETS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 432-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimee Huntington ◽  
Patricia L. Corcoran ◽  
Liisa Jantunen ◽  
Clara Thaysen ◽  
Sarah Bernstein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Water ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Long Range Transport ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Hudson Bay ◽  
Arctic Ecosystems ◽  
Range Transport ◽  
Eastern Canadian Arctic

Microplastics are a globally ubiquitous contaminant, invading the most remote regions, including the Arctic. To date, our understanding of the distribution and sources of microplastics in the Arctic is limited but growing. This study aims to advance our understanding of microplastics in the Arctic. Surface water, zooplankton, sediment, and snow samples were collected from Hudson Bay to north Baffin Bay onboard the CCGS Amundsen from July to August 2017. Samples were examined for microplastics, which were chemically identified via Raman spectroscopy for surface water and zooplankton and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy for sediment. We found that 90% of surface water and zooplankton samples, and 85% of sediment samples, contained microplastics or other anthropogenic particles. Mean anthropogenic particle concentrations, which includes microplastics, were 0.22 ± 0.23 (per litre) for surface water, 3.51 ± 4.00 (per gram) for zooplankton, and 1.94 ± 4.12 (per gram) for sediment. These concentrations were not related to the human populations upstream, suggesting that microplastic contamination in the Arctic is from long-range transport. Overall, this study highlights the presence of microplastics across the eastern Canadian Arctic, in multiple media, and offers evidence of long-range transport via ocean and atmospheric currents. Further research is needed to better understand sources, distribution, and effects to Arctic ecosystems.

Diet and foraging ecology of Black Guillemots in northeastern Hudson Bay

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 1257-1263 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. K. Cairns
Keyword(s):  
Foraging Ecology ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Open Water ◽  
Hudson Bay ◽  
Boreogadus Saida ◽  
Foraging Habitat ◽  
Decapod Crustaceans ◽  
Cepphus Grylle ◽  
Landfast Ice ◽  
Eastern Canadian Arctic

I examined diet and foraging habitat selection by Black Guillemots (Cepphus grylle) in the eastern Canadian arctic. Birds fed on fish (Boreogadus saida, Stichaeus punctatus, Eumesogrammus praecisus) and mysid, amphipod, and decapod crustaceans. Guillemots concentrated at landfast ice edges early in the breeding season. Open-water foraging occurred principally in waters 10–30 m deep within 13 km of breeding colonies. Guillemots were aggregated on the water, but their distributions were not correlated with those of schooling prey. Guillemots feeding in open water obtained much of their food on the bottom, but some prey was likely taken during transit to and from the bottom.

scholarly journals Sea ice thickness in the Eastern Canadian Arctic: Hudson Bay Complex & Baffin Bay

2017 ◽  
Vol 200 ◽  
pp. 281-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack C. Landy ◽  
Jens K. Ehn ◽  
David G. Babb ◽  
Nathalie Thériault ◽  
David G. Barber
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Ice Thickness ◽  
Hudson Bay ◽  
Sea Ice Thickness ◽  
Baffin Bay ◽  
Eastern Canadian Arctic

Late glacial ice margins and deglacial chronology for southeastern Baffin Island and Hudson Strait, eastern Canadian Arctic

1992 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 1000-1017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay A. Stravers ◽  
Gifford H. Miller ◽  
Darrell S. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Hudson Bay ◽  
Baffin Island ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Glacial Ice ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Molluscan Fauna ◽  
Rising Sea Levels ◽  
Eastern Canadian Arctic

Radiocarbon dates from marine piston cores and from onshore raised marine stratigraphic sections in the Hudson Strait region were used to reconstruct deglacial isochrons for 9900, 9500, 8800–8500, and 8000 BP. At the culmination of the Gold Cove readvance (9900 BP), Labrador–Ungava ice flowed northeastward across Hudson Strait and outer Frobisher Bay and stood for the last time on the Baffin Island continental shelf. Subsequent retreat by calving was rapid and profound, opening the entire Hudson Strait marine trough by 9500 BP. At this time, ice dispersal from Foxe Basin, Labrador–Ungava, and local ice on Meta Incognita Peninsula supported tidewater margins along much of the coastline, with the exception of northernmost Ungava Peninsula, where the ice margin stabilized onshore. This onshore margin remained in place throughout the Cockburn Substage while a major northeastward readvance of Ungava Bay ice (the Noble Inlet readvance from 8800 to 8500 BP) crossed outer Hudson Strait, grounding on the Hudson Strait sill and the south coast of Meta Incognita Peninsula. Sedimentation continued in an enclosed basin in western Hudson Strait, but marine circulation was prohibited by the ice dam, and upper water column salinities became too low to support a marine molluscan fauna. Ungava Bay ice was not thick enough to sustain flow across eastern Hudson Strait, and rising sea levels soon destroyed the Noble Inlet ice dam. By 8300 BP normal marine waters were circulating in eastern Hudson Strait, followed shortly thereafter (at 8100 BP) by the deglaciation of western Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay.

scholarly journals Correction: A first assessment of microplastics and other anthropogenic particles in Hudson Bay and the surrounding eastern Canadian Arctic waters of Nunavut

FACETS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 615-616
Author(s):  
Aimee Huntington ◽  
Patricia L. Corcoran ◽  
Liisa Jantunen ◽  
Clara Thaysen ◽  
Sarah Bernstein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Hudson Bay ◽  
Eastern Canadian Arctic

Conodont paleontology and biostratigraphy of Ordovician carbonates and petroliferous carbonates on Southampton, Baffin, and Akpatok islands in the eastern Canadian Arctic

1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (10) ◽  
pp. 1880-1903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander D. McCracken ◽  
Godfrey S. Nowlan
Keyword(s):  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Bedding Plane ◽  
Baffin Island ◽  
Jordan River ◽  
Oil Shales ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Eastern Canadian Arctic

Carbonate and petroliferous carbonate units ("oil shales") on Southampton, Baffin, and Akpatok islands have yielded a total of 2277 conodonts, the more biostratigraphically useful of which indicate not all units are correlative. The Boas River "shale", the lower of the two petroliferous units on Southampton Island, overlies the Bad Cache Rapids Group and contains a diverse fauna, including elements of Amorphognathus ordovicicus Branson and Mehl. Previous reports have indicated the presence of Culumbodina penna Sweet, a species whose range only barely overlaps that of A. ordovicicus in the middle Maysvillian. Carbonate beds and bedding-plane surfaces of the higher Red Head Rapids Formation at Sixteen Mile Brook yielded A. ordovicicus faunas containing Aphelognathus cf. A. divergens Sweet. These beds are likely Richmondian, since A. divergens is known elsewhere only from Richmondian strata. A metasicula of "Glyptograptus" hudsoni Jackson, several natural conodont assemblages, and fused enigmatic coniform elements were also found at Sixteen Mile Brook.The petroliferous unit in unnamed strata at Amadjuak Lake on Baffin Island contains Belodina area Sweet, which is indicative of a late Edenian to early Maysvillian age. Conodonts from the petroliferous strata at Jordan River on Baffin Island suggest a Trentonian to early Maysvillian age. The conodonts recovered from unnamed strata on Akpatok Island are not very diagnostic but indicate an age range from Shermanian to Gamachian.

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