Becky Sjare, Marine Research Scientist
https://archives.sylvanlake.ca/link/descriptions6914
- Fonds / Collection
- Sjare
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Date
- 1997 - 1997
- Accession Number
- 2015.55
- Scope and Content
- These colour photographs show Becky on a Coast Guard cutter in her working environment as a marine biologist, participating in a Scientific Research program - taking stomach samples off bearded seals off the coast of Northern Labrador, March 1997
- Fonds / Collection
- Sjare
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Fonds Number
- 071-99
- Item Number
- 6
- Accession Number
- 2015.55
- Date
- 1997 - 1997
- Physical Description
- Two colour photographs, date unknown
- Physical Condition
- Good
- History / Biographical
- Collected and catalogued by Denise Bignold and Marion Thompson
- This collection of newspaper clippings and photographs came from scrapbooks put together by Becky's mom, Heather Sjare. Material was loaned to the Archives for scanning
- Name Access
- Heather Sjare
- Becky Sjare
- Subject Access
- Marine Biologist
- Geographic Access
- Sylvan Lake
- Scope and Content
- These colour photographs show Becky on a Coast Guard cutter in her working environment as a marine biologist, participating in a Scientific Research program - taking stomach samples off bearded seals off the coast of Northern Labrador, March 1997
- Bottom photograph of the sea of ice and the Henry Larsen Coast Guard Icebreaker, March 19th, 1997; biology technician Wayne Penner boarded the Coast Guard Cutter Icebreaker "Henry Larsen" with a number of scientists and researchers - this was a huge project
- Photo, top right: Dr. Becky Sjare was doing a study off the coast of Labrador, at which time she joined the ship on March 24th, 1997 for six days. So with Wayne as her assistant, she was studying the behaviour and vocalizations of bearded seals and this was done with the aid of high tech hydrophones and by drilling holes in the ice and the hydrophones were dropped down into the ocean. Hydrophones were sensitive to pick up a polar bear walking on the ice up to a distance of 4 kilometers. Many hours were spent flying in helipcopters to land on the ice and to drop the hydrophones. This trip was filmed and documented by Janet and John Foster (film producers for National Geographic and other organizations
- Dr. Sjare was a member of the Society of Marine Mammalagy, the Arctic Institute of North America and the Boreal Institute.
- Notes
- 2015.55.6B - Sea of Ice was a National Geographic production - web research attached
- 2015.55.6C - a comparison of methods for the automatic classification of marine mammal vocalizations in the Arctic