Examples of COOGER Research Projects

In addition to departmental research programs, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) is often engaged in ongoing collaborations with universities and industry. A DFO contact person is identified for each of the DFO-led projects described below.

The web sites of all collaborators and contributors, along with those of collaborative funding organizations, are listed on the Links page.

Research Projects

• Monitoring and Mitigating Aquatic Environmental Impacts:  Integration of R&D Programs Between the National Research Council and Fisheries and Oceans Canada
• Effects of Hibernia produced water on the embryonic development of the estuarine mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus)
• Wave Tank Studies on Dispersant Effectiveness
• Potential Impacts of a Seismic Survey on Snow Crab off Western Cape Breton Island
• Potential Impacts of Seismic Surveys on the Behaviour and Auditory Physiology of Fish in the Mackenzie River
• Microbial community characterization and profiling in northern sites: Impacts of petroleum hydrocarbon contamination and remediation
• Acoustic Monitoring and Marine Mammal Observations Prior to and During an Active Seismic Program
• Mesocosm and Laboratory Study of Effects of Drill Cuttings
• Deep Water Benthic Community Study
• Field Verification of Benthic Boundary Layer Modelling Effects
• Electronic Atlas of Fish Eggs and Larvae for the Scotian Shelf and Adjacent Areas
• Ecological Risk of Produced Water Discharges
• Baseline Hydrocarbon Study in Hecate Strait
• Field Approaches to Ecosystem Restoration of Oil-contaminated Wetlands
• End-point Indicators for Oil Spill Recovery Operations
• Enhancement of Oil-Mineral Aggregate (OMA) Formation as an Oil Spill Countermeasure
• Toxicity Identification and Evaluation (TIE) of Toxic Components in Residual Oil
• Fate and Effects of Chemically Dispersed Oil
• Enhanced Degradation of Persistent Hydrocarbon Residues Using a Combination of Chemical and Biological Oxidation Approaches
• Dispersion of Oil Spills Stranded in Ice and their Environmental Fate
• Monte Carlo Modeling of Oil Aggregates
• Currents and Circulation in the Atlantic Offshore
• Current and Temperature Changes along the Newfoundland and Scotian Shelf Edge
• Validation of Ice Hazards in Imagery by Helicopter-borne Sensors
• Long-range Forecasting of the Iceberg Population on the Grand Banks
• Pack Ice Drift and Properties
• Pack Ice and Ocean Flux Variability along the Labrador Coast
• Pack Ice and Ocean Fluxes in Lancaster Sound of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
• Short-term Forecasting of Surface Currents and Sea Ice