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The ARC provides scientific services for Canadian and US federal and provincial/state departments and agencies, non-government organizations, universities, industry, and the public:
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Biodiversity - related activities (examples)
- NaGISA (Natural Geography In Shore Areas)
- The ARC is the Atlantic Ocean regional centre of this global Census of Marine Life (CoML) program
- Scope: a census and monitoring of species in nearshore habitats of Atlantic Canada and western Africa
- Regional marine species registers (work in progress)
- Projects in collaboration with Fisheries & Oceans Canada, the Centre for Marine Biodiversity (CMB), CoML Gulf of Maine Area Program, and Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
- Scope: a compilation of comprehensive species lists, or registers, for regions of the northwest North Atlantic Ocean with a goal to develop national standards for DFO taxonomy
- See:
- DNA “barcoding” of Canadian Atlantic fishes
- A Fish Barcode of Life program of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life initiative; a CMB project in collaboration with Dalhousie University
- Scope: developing DNA barcodes as a taxonomic tool for the >800 species of Canadian Atlantic fishes for online distribution via FishBOL and GenBank
- Feasibility testing & protocol development for monitoring the environment under deep-water salmon aquaculture sites using Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) technology
- Evaluating biodiversity for marine environmental assessments (e.g. ICES Journal of Marine Science 58: 417-426. 2001)
- Studies evaluating the impact of salmon aquaculture on benthic community biodiversity.
- an examination of the range of options for measuring and assessing the state of marine biodiversity as a tool in environmental impact assessments
- Assessment of in-stream tidal electrical power generation
- Evaluation of Head Harbour Passage, NB, for optimal site determination, in collaboration with HMSC, Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute, Fisheries & Oceans Canada, and University of Maine
- Hydrographic & biological assessment of four potential disposition areas in the Bay of Fundy, for the NB Dept. of Natural Resources, in collaboration with Irving Oil Limited & Jacques Whitford
- Bay of Fundy characterization of biodiversity & environment for strategic environmetal assessment; project of Jacques Whitford, Acadia Centre for Estuarine Research, Devine Tarbell & Assoc. Inc., the HMSC, W.F. Baird and Assoc., & Jim Calvesbert Consulting
- Regional and global biodiversity and informatics organizations not detailed above:
- The Centre for Marine Biodiversity
- founding partner, Technical Committee
- The Gulf of Maine Biodiversity Discovery Corridor
- research, literature compilation and identificatioon of knowledge gaps, archiving of specimens in the ARC, Steering and Systematics committees
- Gulf of Maine Ocean Data Partnership
- founding partner, metadata research and advice, Technical Committee, Metadata Editorial Committee
- Ocean Biogeographic Information System, or OBIS
- research, data contribution, OBIS Canada Steering Committee
- GeoConnections Discovery Portal
- research, metadata contribution
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Processing of aquatic biological samples and identification of specimens
- marine invertebrate plankton
- e.g. Arctic & Antarctic zooplankton (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2005-2007)
- e.g. Grand Bank, Newfoundland, zooplankton (Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans, 1994-2008)
- ichthyoplankton - marine, estuarine and freshwater
- e.g. Canadian Atlantic waters (Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans, 1977-1999)
- e.g. Georges Bank (US “GLOBEC” program 1997-2001)
- e.g. Maine coastal waters ( Maine Dept. of Marine Resources, 1989-2007)
- e.g. Passamaquoddy Bay (MER Assessment Corp., 2006-2008)
- marine benthos
- e.g. Senegal, Africa, invertebrates of rocky shore & seagrass habitats (NaGISA, 2008)
- e.g. continental shelf invertebrates off Nova Scotia (1994-1995)
- fishes, estuarine to deep-sea
- e.g. Canadian Atlantic fishes for Fish Barcode of Life Program (Centre for Marine Biodiversity, Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans, 2005-2008)
- e.g. northern Gulf of St. Lawrence fishes (Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans, 2006-2007)
- e.g. deep-sea fishes of the Scotian Slope (Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans 1995-2008)
- gut contents
- e.g. swordfish (Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans, 2007)
- cod, haddock and larval herring stomachs (Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans)
- freshwater insects
e.g. invertebrate survey of NB streams (NB Dept. of Environment, 2001-2006)
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Training:
- high school co-op, honours, and graduate students, researchers, technicians
- summer courses, workshops (e.g. PRIMER) and lectures
- identification training
- ichthyoplankton
- zooplankton
- benthos
- field sampling
- specimen curation
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Scientific Advice:
- Biodiversity Science Board of Canada membership
- EMAN (Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network) membership
- COSEWIC (Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada)
- marine fishes subcommittee membership
- ASIH (American Society of Ichthologists & Herpetologist) Curation Committee membership
- St. Croix Estuary Project Board of Directors
- CHONe (Canadian Healthy Oceans Network) Specimen and Data Management Committee membership
- Gulf of Maine Area Program of the Census of Marine Life Scientific Advisory Committee membership
- Gulf of Maine Ocean Data Partnership Technical and Metadata Editorial committees membership
- Gulf of Maine Biodiversity Discovery Corridor Steering Committee and Systematics Working Group membership
- Centre for Marine Biodiversity Technical Committee membership
- Ocean Biogeography Information System Canada Steering Committee membership
- peer review of scientific manuscripts advice to scientists
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Technical Literature
- ARC Species ID Leaflet series
- ARC Information Leaflet series
- Canadian Technical Reports of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
ARC Collections Research Services Staff
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