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CHONe Researcher Expertise Last Name First Name Institution Email Address Telephone Expertise Web Link Allen Susan Earth and Ocean Sciences University of British Columbia [email protected] 604-822-2828 Mesoscale Dynamics of Ocean and Atmosphere Coastal Physical Oceanography: the role of submarine canyons in the exchange between the coastal and deep oceans Biological-Physical Interaction: modelling the effect of physical factors on ecosystems and carbon transport in collaboration with chemists and biologists http://www.eos.ubc.ca/~sallen/ Archambault Phillippe Institut des Sciences de la mer de Rimouski, Québec a Rimouski philippe_archambault@uqar. qc.ca 418-723-1986 ext. 1426 Benthic ecology Effects of anthropic and natural disturbances on benthic biodiversity Arctic biodiversity and ecosystem functions www.uqar.ca/uqarinfo/1007/ArchambaultP.asp Bard Shannon Environmental Programmes Dalhousie University [email protected] 902-494-1286 Multixenobiotic resistance in marine organisms from ecosystem, population and organisms to cellular and molecular level; intertidal biodiversity at polluted sites, environmental contaminants in pollutant tolerant organisms Marine environmental toxicology and ecology; http://www.ecotoxicology.ca/ Bendell-Young Leah Biological Sciences Simon Fraser University [email protected] 778-782-4475 Ecotoxicology - movement of inorganic and organic contaminants through ecosystems Anthropogenic disruption of nutrient cycles Oceanic acidification Influence of near-bottom mariculture on intertidal diversity Cadmium in shellfish www.biology.sfu.ca/people/profiles/bendell Bentley Sam Department of Earth Sciences Memorial University of Newfoundland [email protected] 709-864-2097 Application of core imaging and radiochemical studies to the study of physical, geological and biological influences on seabed characteristics and stratigraphy Benthic Sedimentary Processes Organism-sediment interactions Seabed Geomorphology Radioisotope Geochronology of Aquatic Sediments http://www.mun.ca/earthsciences/Bentley/Main.php; 1 http://www.esd.mun.ca/~sjb/ Bentzen Paul Department of Biology Dalhousie University [email protected] 902-494-1105 Resource conservation genetic Population genetics - use of DNA-based methods re. ecology, evolution, conservation biology and management of fishes and other aquatic and marine organism DNA barcode of Atlantic Canadian fishes http://pblabs.biology.dal.ca/ Best Mairi School of Earth and Ocean Sciences University of Victoria [email protected] T: 250-721-7209 C: 250-812-1575 Marine Historical Ecology/Conservation Paleobiology: Biological, physical, and chemical factors that control the preservation (taphonomy) of calcium carbonate skeletons (e.g. shells): These are our primary source of paleobiological information and the primary way carbon is transferred from the atmosphere-ocean to the earth’s crust in the carbon cycle. http://seos.uvic.ca/people/mbest.htm; http://www.neptunecanada.ca/peoplecommunity/bio.dot?inode=13748 Cote Isabelle Biological Sciences Simon Fraser University [email protected] 778-782-4475 Marine ecology and conservation Marine protected areas, reconstructing patterns of ecological change on coral reefs (mostly through metaanalyses), and the invasion of Caribbean reefs by IndoPacific lionfish Evolutionary and behavioural ecology http://www.biology.sfu.ca/people/profiles/imcote; http://www.sfu.ca/biology/faculty/cote/tmel/Isabelle_Co te.html Cusson Mathieu Département des sciences fondamentales Université du Québec à Chicoutimi [email protected] 418-545-5011 ext. 5065 http://dsf.uqac.ca/dept/ppprofs/cusson.php Devillers Rodolphe Department of Geography Memorial University of Newfoundland [email protected] 709-864-8412 Cartography GIS - spatial data quality and usability, geovisualization Marine geomatics/GIS (fisheries, geology, environment etc) Marine habitat mapping Decision support systems; Standardization and meta-data Marine Conservation 2 Marine ecology Biodiversity: distribution, cause and effect Effect of biodiversity on community functioning Marine benthos, macro-ecology and meta-analyses; Secondary production and population dynamics Experimental designs applied to ecology; coastal communities http://www.mun.ca/geog/people/faculty/rdevillers.php deYoung Brad Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography Memorial University of Newfoundland [email protected] Oceanography Dalhousie University Adjunct; DFO scientist Departement de biologie Universite Laval [email protected] [email protected] Physical oceanography - circulation and wind forced response in the Northwest Atlantic and its influence upon the shelf; Ocean ecology - dispersal of plankton; New technologies for ocean sampling : Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs); new platforms - gliders to extend reach into the ocean http://www.mun.ca/physics/people/faculty/deYoung.php ; 418-656-3289 Evolutionary ecology of estuarine fishes Evolution of alternative life-history strategies Phylogeography and biogeography; specifically how environmental variability acting on the growth and survival of larval and juvenile fishes influences the evolution of life-history strategies in diadromous species http://www.bio.ulaval.ca/labdodson/a-presentation.htm 709-864-8839 http://www.physics.mun.ca/~bdeyoung/ DiBacco Claudio Dodson Julian Dowd Michael Mathematics and Statistics Dalhousie University [email protected] 902-494-1048 Statistical Inverse Problems for Ocean Prediction Stochastic Marine Ecosystem Modelling Data Analysis Methods for Marine Environmental Observations http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/Faculty/dowd.htm Dower John Department of Biology University of Victoria [email protected] 250-472-5010 Fisheries oceanography Marine ecology, particularly plankton ecology Predator-prey interactions Physical processes structuring marine ecosystems Population ecology of larva; fish; ecophysiology of overwintering copepods; Invasion biology of non-indigenous bivalves http://web.uvic.ca/biology/faculty/facpages/dower.html; Molecular ecology Evolutionary aspects related to the polyploid cladocerans Effects of chromosomal duplications on the physiology and ecology of freshwater invertebrates Genome sequencing the of the water flea, Daphnia pulex; Testing various evolutionary hypothesis (frozen niche, allpurpose genotype) of clones of Daphnia in Arctic environments http://www.uqar.ca/biologie/professeurs/dufresnefrance/ Dufresne France Biologie et sciences de la sante Universite of Québec a Rimouski [email protected]. CA 418-723-1986 ext. 1223 3 http://web.uvic.ca/~dower/dowerlab/ Edinger Evan Department of Geography Memorial University of Newfoundland [email protected] 709- 864-3233 Geology and biology of corals and coral reefs Marine habitat mapping Quantitative interpretation of multibeam sonar data, using optical and in-situ sampling Climate change impacts in the Canadian Arctic http://www.mun.ca/geog/people/faculty/eedinger.php Gosine Raymond Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science Memorial University of Newfoundland [email protected] 709 864-8941 Telerobotics, machine vision and pattern recognition for application in resource industries (aquaculture and fisheries, oil&gas, mining, forestry) http://www.engr.mun.ca/people/rgosine.php Grant Jon Department of Oceanography Dalhousie University [email protected] 902-494-2021 http://oceanography.dal.ca/person/Jonathan_Grant.html Gregory Robert Department of Biology Memorial University of Newfoundland [email protected] 709-772-4491 Aquatic ecosystem science Aquatic habitat, aquatic environmental science, fish population science Marine fish nursery habitat in marine coastal waters of Newfoundland http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/sdb-bds/profileprofil.do?id=272&lang=eng Guichard Frédéric Department of Biology McGill University [email protected] 514-398-6464 Ecosystems as complex systems - Metacommunity dynamics across scales and the design of marine reserve networks Problems of scale in ecology - how large scale patterns of biological diversity develop and are maintained from local interactions among individuals, how biological diversity is influenced by global changes, the role of biological diversity for community structure and dynamics, how environmental complexity interact with biotic processes to maintain variability and diversity in communities http://falco.biol.mcgill.ca/~guichard/ 4 Aquaculture-environment interactions Ecosystem modelling Coastal zone management GIS and habitat mapping Arctic benthos Boundary layer geochemistry and biology Hallam Steven Microbiology and Immunology University of British Columbia [email protected] 604-827-3420 Construction and interpretation of environmental genomic libraries Generation of computational tools and workflows for taxonomic and functional binning, population genome assembly, and comparative community analysis Functional screen development to interrogate environmental genomic libraries for bioactive small molecules and biocatalysis http://www.cmde.science.ubc.ca/hallam/peoplehallam.p hp Hebert Paul Integrative Biology University of Guelph [email protected] 519-824-4120 x56668 http://www.uoguelph.ca/ib/people/faculty/hebert.shtml Innes David Department of Biology Memorial University of Newfoundland [email protected] 709-864-4754 Sexual and asexual reproduction, primarily using the planktonic crustacean, Daphnia pulex as a model organism Ecology and genetics of Mytilus spp. in Newfoundland http://www.mun.ca/biology/dinnes/Home.html Iverson Sara Department of Biology Dalhousie University [email protected] 902-494-3736 Physiological ecology of vertebrates combining comparative physiology and ecology with lipid biochemistry and metabolism; Role of lipids in the evolution of energetic and reproductive strategies in marine mammals Conservation and management of marine mammals, seabirds and fishes http://biology.dal.ca/People/faculty/iverson/iverson.htm Junpier Kim School of Earth and Ocean Sciences University of Victoria [email protected] 250-472-5379 Marine systems and global change Ecology and biochemistry of deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems Ecology of marine microorganisms in sediments, water column and in Arctic sea ice Use of cables observatories and ROVs to map diversity of seafloor benthos http://web.uvic.ca/~labweb/JuniperLab/Pages/People/Ki m%20Juniper/KimJuniper.html Kaczmarska Irena Department of Biology Mount Allison University [email protected] 506-364-2500 http://www.mta.ca/faculty/science/bio/BIOSITE/FACULTY /irenakaczmarska.html 5 Use of DNA based approaches to biodiversity study Barcode of Life Phyleographic patterns in Arctic marine life Modulation of genome sizes Evolution of breeding systems in freshwater crusteaceans Evolution of diatoms Alien and harmful species Molecular taxonomy(including barcoding) Artificial intelligence in biological imaging Lauzon-Guay JeanSébastien Lawton Peter Leys Sally Li Aquatic Ecosystems Science Aquatic Habitat / Aquatic Environmental Science Aquatic Invasive Species http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/sdb-bds/profileprofil.do?id=787&lang=eng 780-492-6629 Evolution of animal body plans: developmental mechanisms in basal metazoans and mechanisms of cellcell communication in sponges Use of molecular (incl. in situ hybridization) and cell biological (EM, video and light microscopy), and physiological techniques; use of ROV and SCUBA in field environments http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/faculty/sally_leys/ [email protected] 902-426-6349 Biological oceanography http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/sdb-bds/profileprofil.do?id=213&lang&lang=eng Department de Biologie Universite Laval [email protected] 418-656-2007 Arctic marine microbes, especially planktonic microorganisms (phytoplankton and other protists, archaea and bacteria), responsible for global carbon and mineral cycling on a planetary scale: How many microorganisms are there in the water column? What is their genetic and metabolic diversity? What factors determine growth and mortality? http://www.bio.ulaval.ca/no_cache/en/department/prof essors/professors/professeur/11/18/ Institut des Sciences de la mer de Rimouski, Québec a Rimouski [email protected] 418-775-0667 Basic and applied ecology in coastal areas Aquaculture-environment interactions, bivalve aquaculture and ecosystem biodiversity, productive and ecosystem services; Exotic species (Codium fragile) and eelgrass communities; Aquatic invasive species Intertidal ecology, mussel recruitment and spatial variation in benthic communities http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/sdb-bds/profileprofil.do?id=93&lang=eng Institut Maurice Lamontagne Fisheries and Oceans Canada Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre Fisheries and Oceans Canada Biological Sciences University of Alberta [email protected] 418-775-0752 [email protected] 506-529-5919 [email protected] Bill Oceanography Dalhousie University Lovejoy Connie McKindsey Chris 6 Metaxas Anna Oceanography Dalhousie University [email protected] 902-494-3021 Larval ecology of marine benthic invertebrates including invasive species: factors influencing survival and dispersal including fertilization biology, dietary conditioning, food patchiness, swimming behaviour, flow and turbulence Larval production, dispersal and recruitment of invertebrates at hydrothermal vents and other deep-sea habitats Structure of macro- and megabenthos associated with assemblages of deep sea corals http://myweb.dal.ca/metaxas/ Montevecchi William Psychology, Biology & Ocean Sciences Memorial University of Newfoundland [email protected] 709-864-7673 Behavioural ecology of marine and terrestrial birds Interdisciplinary ecosystem research program focused on the environmental influences on animal behaviour and ecology Multi-species interactions in dynamic Low Arctic and Boreal ecosystems, assessment of the use of animal responses as indicators of prey and ecosystem conditions http://play.psych.mun.ca/~mont/ ; http://www.mun.ca/psychology/bio/montevecchi.php Nozais Christian Biologie et sciences de la sante Universite of Québec a Rimouski [email protected] 418-723-1986 ext. 1589 Benthic ecology Ecology of aquatic communities, ecology of aquatic ecosystems; biodiversity, energy flow and matter cycles, origin and quality of organic matter, and its use across populations and communities in marine and lacustrine Biodiversity and chemical constraints (stoichiometry) affecting the functioning of aquatic ecosystems in boreal, arctic and subtropical environments http://www.uqar.ca/biologie/professeurs/nozaischristian/ Pepin Pierre Biological and Physical Oceanography Section Fisheries and Oceans Canada [email protected] Biological and fisheries oceanography Biophysical modelling Early life history stages of fish and related processes (growth,development, mortality) Mortality estimation methods Survey design Quantitative methods Zooplankton ecology Environmental monitoring 7 Department of Mathematics and Statistics Memorial University of Newfoundland Institut des Sciences de la mer de Rimouski, Québec a Rimouski [email protected] 709-864-8096 Graph theory - graph decompositions, cycle properties of graphs, computational problems in combinatorics and graph theory http://www.mun.ca/math/people/ppl-faculty/dapike.php ; http://www.math.mun.ca/~dapike/ [email protected] 418-775-0676 Ecology and population dynamics of zooplankton un subArctic and Arctic environments Biology of the reproduction and food of copepods Effects of climate change on secondary production, secondary production and biology of fish recruitment Evolution of sub-populations and sub-spaces of zooplankton Distribution of zooplankton (Video Plankton Recorder) http://ismer.uqar.ca/cvismer/?130/Plourde-Stephane Pedro Department of Biology University of Prince Edward Island [email protected] 902-566-6059 Estuarine and marine benthic habitats, with a focus on predator-prey interactions, animal-sediment relationships, marine biodiversity, and invasive species. http://www.upei.ca/biology/quijon Ruddick Barry Department of Oceanography Dalhousie University [email protected] 902-494-2505 http://www.phys.ocean.dal.ca/people/po/Ruddick_Barry. html; http://oceanography.dal.ca/person/Ruddick_Barry.html Scheibling Robert Biology Dalhousie University [email protected] 902-494-2296 Sirois Pascal Departement des sciences fondamentales Université du Quebec a Chicoutimi [email protected] 418-545-5011, ext. 5658 Pike David Plourde Stephane Quijon Ocean mixing processes Internal waves Geophysical flows; Seismic oceanography -- imaging ocean fine structures using multichannel seismic techniques Benthic marine ecology Marine biology Invertebrate fisheries, aquaculture Subtidal ecosystems Marine biology, fish ecology, ecology of juvenile stages of life Microstructure of otolithes (crystals of calcium cabonate in ear, having an essential role in balancing the body) Fisheries management 8 http://biology.dal.ca/People/faculty/scheibling/scheibling .htm http://dsf.uqac.ca/dept/ppprofs/sirois.php Marine community ecology, larval ecology of invertebrates and fish, ecology of benthic invertebrates - fish and invertebrate larval behaviour and transport, and how these links contribute to recruitment success, population connectivity, and spatial patterns in coastal environments Hydrodynamic effects on benthic communities and populations, deep-sea ecology, coral reef ecology, biodiversity, disturbance and anthropogenic impacts http://www.mun.ca/osc/psnelgrove/bio.php 514-398-4883 Early diagenesis of sediments in Arctic Ocean - salt marshes to deep basins; Redox chemistry - carbon cycle Interactions between living organisms (bacteria, animals, plants) and sediments http://ismer.uqar.ca/cvismer/?17/Sundby-Bjorn [email protected] l.ca 902-494-7144 Fisheries oceanography -field and laboratory: physical, ecological biochemical and genetic influences on early life history and recruitment in fish and on fish population structure and distribution. Endangered Atlantic right whale http://www.phys.ocean.dal.ca/~taggart/; http://oceanography.dal.ca/units/fac_adj_list.html [email protected] 250-721-7135 Ecology and evolution of hot-vent animals in the deep sea Marine community history Project VENUS, directly linking scientific instruments under the sea surface and on the sea floor via fibre optic cable to a data clearing house and computers at UVic http://web.uvic.ca/biology/faculty/facpages/tunnicliffe.ht ml Snelgrove Paul Ocean Sciences Centre Memorial University of Newfoundland [email protected] 709-864-3440 Steinke Dirk [email protected] 519-824-4120, ext: 53759 Sundby Bjorn [email protected] [email protected] Taggart Chris Biodiversity Institute of Ontario University of Guelph Institut des Sciences de la mer de Rimouski; Universite of Québec a Rimouski Adjunct Professor, McGill University Department of Oceanography Dalhousie University Tunnicliffe Verena Biology University of Victoria 9