Peter Jones

OCEANOGRAPHIC SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
Peter was born on January 17, 1935 in Trail, BC. He attended school in Trail and after graduation, attended the University of British Columbia, obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Physics in 1958; and a P.H.D. in Physics in 1963.
He spent the next year and a half at the University of Tokyo, in Tokyo, as a National Research Counsel Post Doctorate Fellow, then two years at Columbia University in New York City as a Research Associate. In 1966, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Physics at the University of Toledo in Ohio, and in 1972, was a Visiting Associate Professor at MacMaster University in Hamilton.

In 1973, he moved to the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Halifax, where he has been working ever since. Peter’s research at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography has been mostly in the Arctic and Labrador Sea. In 1976, he made his first voyage north of the Arctic Circle to Lancaster Sound in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. This was followed by several other voyages to the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Baffin Bay. Subsequently, he was the principle investigator on several international Arctic Ocean expeditions.

Between Arctic expeditions, he joined an expedition on the German icebreaker POLARSTERN, the first scientific voyage into the Arctic Ocean in modern times, exploiting modern technologies. In 1987, Peter again joined the POLARSTERN in another expedition that obtained the first modern oceanographic section across a major basin within the Arctic Ocean. In 1991, he was aboard the Swedish icebreaker ODEN on another expedition. He was aboard the Canadian icebreaker LOUIS ST. LAURENT, that together with the US icebreaker POLAR SEA, was the first ship to cross the Arctic Ocean. In addition to work in the Arctic, since 1986, Peter has been on annual and sometimes seasonal expeditions to the Labrador Sea and neighbouring regions of the North Atlantic Ocean.

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