Canadian Hydrographic Service collaborations

Learn how the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) assists on projects with its partners.

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• Other government agencies
• International partners
• Private industry

Other government agencies

Our projects with other government agencies include those involving:

• tourism
• transportation
• natural resources
• defence and security
• environmental protection

We assist in assessing the potential use of tidal currents and waves as renewable energy and the possible environmental impacts on Canada's maritime resources. This includes:

• the waters off Vancouver Island
• Johnstone Strait, Vancouver Island
• the Bay of Fundy tidal current projects
• the 2006 compilation of an Inventory of Canada's Marine Renewable Energy Resources, with support from the National Research Council of Canada

Other collaborative projects with government agencies include:

• mapping seabed to recover the wreckage of a Swiss Air passenger jet off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1998
• offering the Permanent Water Level Network for tsunami emergency preparedness and emergency response
• charting the rugged shoal-infested northern Labrador coast for the Canadian Coast Guard's search and rescue requirements
• surveying ocean bed for Parks Canada to search for Sir John Franklin's ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, which disappeared in the Arctic Ocean in 1848
• updating navigation charts for the west coast of British Columbia to establish new routes for deep-draught tankers in response to increased demand, such as Enbridge's Northern Gateway Project
• working with Global Affairs Canada and other departments to find out the extent of the Continental Shelf for a submission regarding the United Nations Convention for the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)

International partners

Some of our projects with international partners include:

• the Second Galway Statement which:
  • furthered our knowledge of the shared Atlantic Ocean
  • was done in partnership with the U.S. and the European Union
• the international Argo project, which tracks ocean events around the world
• hydrographic surveys for the Nereida project of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO)

Private industry

Our projects with private industry partners include:

• riverbed surveys in the St. Lawrence to explore potential sites for off-shore underwater turbines
• charting the water depths of the liquefied natural gas terminal in Saint John, New Brunswick, which was built by:
  • Irving Oil
  • Reposol (a Spanish oil company)