Dr. Dany Dumont is driven by his curiosity. It’s what led him to become a researcher and it propels his work, whether he’s studying sea ice, finding common understanding across disciplines, or examining preconceived notions that impact research.
“When you dig, you realize that knowledge is often partial, imperfect, adapted to one context, but not to another,” says Dumont, who is a Professor of Physical Oceanography with Institut des sciences de la mer de Rimouski (ISMER). He’s part of the Tracer Release Experiment (TReX), studying dispersion in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
TReX is composed of two parts: the surface and the deep-water experiments. The surface experiment involves release and tracking of Rhodamine and surface drifters. The deep-water experiment released inert chemical tracer (and some deep drifters) into subsurface waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
This ambitious field and modelling experiment is co-funded by MEOPAR and the Réseau Québec Maritime (RQM). It is a research aggregator, connecting diverse groups and approaches-from government to academia to communities. TReX’s activities also bring together all three of MEOPAR’s Cores: Observation, Prediction and Response.
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13 авг 2022
