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RESEARCH
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Oceanography is an interdisciplinary science that includes studies of tides and currents, the chemistry of sea water, the plants and animals that live in the sea and ocean bottom sediments.
Our researchers are sailing to the Tropics, viewing the oceans from space, and following currents with tracers. They are turning the important information they gather into models that tell us how the Earth will evolve as a result of natural or man-induced changes.
We house the Canadian offices of large national projects such as the Global Ocean-Atmosphere Prediction and Predictability (GOAPP) network. Headquartered at Dalhousie, this network unites some 40 researchers and graduate students from 10 universities across Canada, in order to improve forecasts of the atmosphere and ocean.
We also house the CFI-funded Center for Marine Environmental Prediction, which is using new technology to developing methods of predicting changes in the environment by studying the oceans.
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| Major Research & Collaborative Programs |
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The Department of Oceanography is involved in several major research and collaborative programs, some of which are linked here: BBOMB - Bedford Basin Ocean Monitoring Buoy CMEP - Centre for Marine Environmental Prediction (Archive) GOAPP - Global Ocean-Atmosphere Prediction and Predictability NEPTUNE Canada - building the world’s first regional-scale underwater ocean observatory that plugs directly into the Internet SLEIWEX - The St. Lawrence Estuary Internal Wave Experiment (SLEIWEX), a Canadian university-government partnership, funded by CFCAS, NSERC, and CFI, to study the generation, propagation and dissipation of large-amplitude internal waves in the St. Lawrence - Saguenay coastal system VENUS - Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea |