Ocean Assemblage

Objective

To provide the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) with the capability to operate in all of Canada’s waters, including Canada’s Arctic waters, throughout the navigable season.  The acquisition of the Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS) will increase the CAF’s capacity to defend Canada and its security, including in the Arctic.

Requirements

AOPS will be an ice-capable ship, with icebreaking characteristics to allow for year-round operations in up to and including one metre of first-year ice of high ice concentrations which may include old ice inclusions. It will also possess sea-keeping qualities to allow operations in the open ocean. AOPS will be fitted with gun systems appropriate for use in domestic constabulary roles and force protection, and designed to operate effectively in the anticipated extreme climates. AOPS crew will be up to 65 personnel, with accommodation in the ship for an additional 20 mission personnel who will be embarked as required for more complex taskings including those in support of other Government departments.  It will be capable of a maximum sustained speed of at least 17 kts, with a range of more than 6800 nautical miles.  It is capable of autonomous operations for up to 4 months.  AOPS has been designed to operate and hangar an organic aircraft. While it is anticipated that it will most frequently embark smaller utility helicopters, it will have sufficient capabilities to provide limited support to CH 148 Cyclone operations. AOPS will operate an assortment of boats and crafts to provide rescue, humanitarian, mission, and limited sealift capabilities. The ship is designed with enclosed and open storage facilities to accommodate an array of stores, including 20-ft ISO containers and utility vehicles.  It is capable of loading and offloading these cargos in various locations, such as jetties, landing craft, as well as onto the ice.

Preliminary Estimate

• More than $1.5 billion

Anticipated Timeline

• 2014
  • Implementation Approval
• 2015
  • Contract Award
• 2021 to 2025
  • Final Delivery

Point of Contact

Director Naval Requirements
Phone: 819-939-3951
Email: DAG_Naval-GAD_Naval@forces.gc.ca

‘A Salmon Sky View’ art workshop will encourage and enhance salmon conservation and connect communities through outreach for IYS. Award-winning science writer and illustrator, Carol McDougall, will share the story of a salmon’s journey with 4 classrooms involved in salmon incubation in St. John’s, NL, Canada. Art will be shared with 4 other NASCO youth groups via artist trading cards and shared through a public display.

The recently established Canadian Integrated Ocean Observing System/Système Intégré d’Observation des Océans du Canada (CIOOS/SIOOC) is a national effort to facilitate the knowledge exchange in ocean sciences and to make oceanographic data from various public, private and academic stakeholders discoverable and accessible to the end-user. It is an initiative that is jointly funded by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the Marine Environmental, Observation, Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR).

In it’s pilot phase (2018 – 2020) CIOOS/SIOOC established three regional associations (RA); Pacific, St. Lawrence, and Atlantic, that will each build a data infrastructure in collaboration with their regional data providers and users. A national, centralized, open and web-based platform will aggregate the regionally managed ocean data, supporting a one-stop-shop approach to the discovery and access of information for ocean related research and decision making. Interoperability with international standards and organisations is an important aspect of the CIOOS/SIOOC initiative and will enable contributions to the global effort of better understanding the ocean, it’s issues and interactions with other earth systems.

In order for the RA’s to mutually agree on metadata best practises and a standard that is contributing to CIOOS/SIOOC’s initial Essential Ocean Variables (EOV) being FAIR compliant, the Metadata Working Group was established in early 2019. One of the main working group deliverables will be the development of a metadata profile that is based on ISO 19115 and sufficiently describes all relevant aspects of the EOV. In addition, topics including controlled vocabularies, persistent identifiers, granularity, quality control, workflows and tools will be addressed and recommendations formulated. Besides CIOOS/SIOOC partners including Ocean Networks Canada, St. Lawrence Global Observatory, Ocean Tracking Network, Ocean Frontier Institute, OTN/MEOPAR Glider Program, and the Hakai Institute, non-CIOOS/SIOOC stakeholders such as MERIDIAN and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, have been invited to contribute to the metadata working group. This measure will ensure that the decisions made and recommendations suggested are consistent, agreeable and compliant with other Canadian members of the ocean community. Even though passive acoustic data are not part of the initial set of CIOOS/SIOOC EOVs, we, as in MERIDIAN, appreciate the opportunity and hope that we can pave the way for a smooth integration of acoustic data at a later stage.

Join us for our Annual Holiday Reception

On behalf of the Board of Directors and staff of the Prince Edward Island BioAlliance, Chair Dr. Russ Kerr invites you and a guest to join us in celebration of the holiday season on December 17, 2019 at 5pm in the historical Rodd Charlottetown Hotel.

Presenter(s):

Blair Greenan, Research Scientist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Nancy Shackell, Research Scientist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Sponsor(s):

NOAA’s National Ocean Service Science Seminar; coordinator is Tracy.Gill@noaa.gov
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Abstract:

Climate change impacts on fisheries will undoubtedly have socio-economic impacts on coastal communities and the seafood market. However, it is a challenge to integrate climate change information in a form that can be used efficiently by adaptation planners, policy makers and fishery managers. In this study, we frame a climate change impact assessment using a geographical perspective based on the management units of the dominant fishery, in this case, American lobster in Nova Scotia, Canada. The information considered here includes economic dependence on the fishery, population size, diversity of the fishery revenue, status of harbour infrastructure, total replacement cost of each harbour, increased relative sea level and flooding, and the vulnerability of offshore lobster to ocean warming and changes in zooplankton composition and anticipatory changes in fishery productivity across management borders. Using two ocean models to provide multi-decadal scale projections of bottom temperature, changes in offshore lobster distribution are projected to have a neutral, or positive impact on the region as a whole. However, when lobster vulnerability is combined with climate change related vulnerabilities of coastal fishing communities, it is evident that adaptation planning is needed for long-term sustainability. This impact assessment provides both a framework and information for further in-depth analyses by climate change adaptation planners and fishery managers.
About the

Presenter(s):

Drs. Blair Greenan and Nancy Shackell are research scientists at Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Nova Scotia, Canada. In 2012, Nancy and Blair co-managed a large research group to assess the vulnerabilities, opportunities and impacts of climate change throughout the Atlantic Basin. Recently, their research has focused on developing climate change adaptation tools to provide science advice to DFO on issues related to coastal infrastructure and fisheries management.

Blair manages a diverse group of researchers that focus on ocean stressors ranging from marine oil spills to climate change effects such as ocean acidification. He is the Scientific Director for the Argo Canada program which contributes to the International Argo program in advancing global real-time observations of the ocean with autonomous instruments. Blair received his Ph.D. from the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto.

Nancy’s research focuses on fisheries ecology in support of Ecosystem Approach to Management. Nancy has published on biodiversity, important habitat of commercial species, marine protected areas, trophic balance, integrated ecological assessments, impacts of climate change, Atlantic halibut spatial ecology, and climate change adaptation. Nancy received a B.Sc. in Biology from McGill University, Montreal and a Ph.D. in Biology from Dalhousie University, Halifax.
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OneNOAA Science Seminar Series
Speaker: Danielle M. Frechette, PhD Marine Resource Scientist, Maine Department of Marine Resources
Seminar sponsor:  This seminar is part of NOAA’s EcoFOCI bi-annual seminar series focused on the ecosystems of the North Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea and U.S. Arctic to improve understanding of ecosystem dynamics and applications of that understanding to the management of living marine resources. Visit the EcoFOCI webpage for more information, http://www.ecofoci.noaa.gov/.

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Abstract:
This talk will provide a bird’s eye view of a colonization program implemented for Atlantic salmon population enhancement in a Quebec river.
Seminar

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heather.tabisola@noaa.gov & jens.nielsen@noaa.gov
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Sponsor(s):
National Sea Grant and the NOAA Central Library

POC:
Hollis Jones (hollis.jones@noaa.gov)
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Presenter(s):
Davin Holen, PhD, Coastal Community Resilience Specialist & Assistant Professor Alaska Sea Grant, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences & Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Abstract:
Davin will be discussing the adaptation planning he conducts with communities through Adapt Alaska (adaptalaska.org).

• Adapt Alaska Development: From 2015 to 2017 Holen worked with collaborators from State, Federal, and Tribal entities to conduct a series of workshops with over 200 participants to assess climate change impacts to communities in Northwest Alaska and the Bering Sea Region. In addition, Dr. Holen and colleagues at the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska and the Sitka Tribe of Alaska organized the Southeast Alaska Climate Change Summit for Tribes to review climate impacts to cultural resources and discuss monitoring, mitigation, and adaptation planning in 2016.  A second workshop to continue efforts in Southeast Alaska is planned for 2019. The outcome of both efforts is a new effort called Adapt Alaska. This includes a website, adaptalaska.org which describes current climate stressors for coastal communities in Alaska, pairs them with innovative adaptation solutions, provides a portal of useful websites and databases, and tells stories of successful adaptation strategies.
• Adapt Alaska Workshops: Continuing the Adapt Alaska effort, Davin is currently working with partners on a climate adaptation scenario planning exercise in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region of Alaska called Adapt Y-K, the Alaska Peninsula Community of Port Heiden, is in the planning stage to develop a workshop in Kodiak called Adapt Kodiak to expand efforts into adapting economies to changes, and is working with smaller communities such as Klukwan and Haines in Southeast Alaska to plan adaptation workshops in those communities to be led by Tribes.
• Coastal Vulnerability Tools: Besides working directly with communities in resilience and adaptation planning, Davin also developed a human-dimensions spatial layers for the Alaska Ocean Observing System data portal for planning and responding to potential technological disasters.  This tool shows areas of harvest and use of wild resources in Cook Inlet by rural communities and can be used by responders to oil spills as well as in planning exploration activities.
• Oil Spill Impacts to Communities: Davin recently coordinated a National Academy of Science Gulf Research Program funded workshop on oil spill impacts to human health, and social and economic disruption to be held February 2019.  This brought together stakeholders from across Alaska to discuss challenges and vulnerabilities related to oil spills in the extremes of Alaska.

Bio:
Dr. Davin Holen is a coastal community resilience specialist for Alaska Sea Grant in the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences and works collaboratively with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy at the International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks.  Davin facilitates workshops and other activities related to coastal resilience addressing monitoring, mitigation, and adaptation to local stressors from climatic and ocean changes.
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NOAA’s National Ocean Service (NOS); coordinator is Tracy.Gill@noaa.gov
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Abstract:

Bathymetryis the most important explanatory variable for understanding the abundance anddistribution of fish and invertebrates in Alaskan waters, but our seafloor mapsare often inadequate. Many areas in Alaska were only surveyed as recently asthe 1930s or 1940s, and some areas have never been mapped with formalhydrographic surveys. Therefore we have been combining various availabledatasets, including non-hydrographic data, and publishing large regionalbathymetry compilations for use in fisheries, geological and oceanographicresearch. This seminar will explain how, as a fishery biologist, I ended upworking almost exclusively on bathymetry.

Bio:

I work ina NOAA group that conducts stock assessment bottom trawl surveys in the AleutianIslands and the Gulf of Alaska during the summer. In the fall, I host an annualGroundfish seminar series to provide better communication for the widelydispersed groundfish community. During the rest of the year, I am a GIS expert and Iproof, edit, digitize, and combine bathymetry data sets to make detailed Alaskaseafloor maps for use in fisheries, geological and oceanographic research (https://www.afsc.noaa.gov/RACE/groundfish/bathymetry/). As the geographic extent of ourmapped areas has expanded, we have begun collaborating with the internationalseafloor mapping community at GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans).Last year I was able to learn about some of GEBCO’s mapping expertise during aNMFS Science and Technology Fellowship at Stockholm University. Thegeomorphological seafloor features of our recent western Gulf of Alaskabathymetry map were interpreted by a geologist to show the ice extent of theLast Glacial Maximum and published at Geosciences (https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9100409). This project was also described in a NOAA Feature Story (https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/new-seafloor-maps-reveal-habitat-sculpted-ancient-glaciers).
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• 22 September (afternoon) – SCOR Public Event; (evening) – Canal cruise and welcome reception
• 23 September (morning and afternoon) – SCOR Annual Meeting; (evening) – City walk tour and dinner
• 24 September (morning and afternoon) – SCOR Annual Meeting; (evening) – Onesen (hot springs) and conference dinner
• 25 September (morning) – SCOR Annual Meeting; (afternoon) – SCOR/Japan Oceanography Society (JOS) Joint Symposium; (evening) – SCOR/JOS Dinner
• 26-29 September – JOS Annual Meeting