Acadia Centre for Estuarine Research
The Acadia Centre for Estuarine Research (ACER) is a separate research unit within the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science of Acadia University.
The primary objective of the Centre is to focus research attention on estuaries and nearshore coastal waters. Although the Centre has been involved in research projects in numerous areas of the world and all types of aquatic ecosystems, its main research emphasis has been on the estuarine systems of the Bay of Fundy and the hydrographically-related Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank.
The Centre actively encourages cooperative, multidisciplinary research programmes that involve scientists and students from different disciplines and different institutions--regional, national and international. Projects carried out by the Centre may involve individuals from other academic units, working in collaboration, and often utilise the talents of research scientists at other institutions, both university and government.
Areas of Interest: Estuarine and Coastal Water Research; multidisciplinary Research Projects; coastal Erosion and Sedimentation; aquaculture; fisheries.
Products and Services: project management and development; environmental impact studies; biological resource surveys; ecological modelling; water quality monitoring; water quality analyses and training; literature surveys; technical training.
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Graham R. Daborn
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Director
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Management Executive
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Michael Brylinsky
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Manager
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D. Kee Muschenheim
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Partner/Associate
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Research/Development/Engineering
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Trefor Reynoldson
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Carl Amos
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John Roff
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Research/Development/Engineering, Government Relations
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Anna Redden
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Products
Environmental Products And Services
Training Workshops For Volunteer Community Groups, First Nations Groups And Aquaculturalists.
Water quality monitoring programmes designed for general water quality surveys, water quality surveys related to mussel aquaculture sites and fish rehabilitation activities. Training workshops to provide hands-on experience in sampling design, data tabulation and analyses, and water quality monitoring technical procedures.
Design And Implementation Of A Field Data Collection And Modeling Project.
Steps in the design: Collection of hydrodynamic data necessary for calibration of a hydrodynamic model; Collection of sediment characteristic data necessary for construction and calibration of a sedimentological model; Collection of data on water quality and sediment flux rates necessary for construction and calibration of a water quality model; Determination of pre- and post-causeway sedimentation rates and water quality based on sediment core samples.
Two stages to the study involve: field data collection program to provide information for calibration and parameter estimation of the hydrodynamic and sedimentation models; and development and calibration of models.
The models will provide predictions of the stability of bottom sediments in the bay after causeway removal and predict the rate of re-introduction and flushing of organics and nutrients present in the bay sediments. It will also be used to determine the extent of any changes in flushing characteristics within the bay that may result from causeway removal.
Data collection included use of an Interocean S4 current meter equipped with a pressure sensor, cyclops, an optical backscatter sensor instrument; Sea Carousel, an in situ deployed benthic annular flume; Van Vaen gram samplers, and core samplers.
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