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Maritime Archaeologist
About Louise Lapointe
In 2017, Louise Lapointe led the dive team that confirmed the identity of the HMS Erebus in Nunavut’s Queen Maud Gulf, using sonar-guided photogrammetry and Inuit oral history to triangulate the wreck’s location before any physical survey began. Her approach redefined how Arctic maritime archaeology integrates Indigenous knowledge as co-equal evidence, not supplementary context. Based at Laval University’s Centre for Arctic Research, she’s published peer-reviewed protocols for cold-water sediment sampling that reduce site disturbance by 63% compared to standard methods. Louise doesn’t just map hull fragments, she reconstructs navigational decision points from barnacle growth patterns on copper sheathing, cross-referenced with 19th-century Admiralty logbooks digitized through her bilingual (English/French) archival initiative. Her fieldwork has taken her from the fog-choked shoals of the Magdalen Islands to the methane-seep zones off Nova Scotia’s continental shelf, where she studies how seafloor chemistry alters artifact preservation timelines.
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