With an offshore territory of 4.6 million km2 Canada faces many challenges in managing offshore lands. In addition under UNCLOS Article 76 Canada could lay...
Coastal and ocean environments worldwide are coming under increasing pressure from resource development. In some cases, integrated coastal zone management...
For many years researchers have been aware of the association between benthic and pelagic communities and their physical habitats. However, not until the 1990s...
Browns Bank is located on the glaciated continental shelf off southern Nova Scotia. Geological mapping of Browns Bank is based on interpretation of multibeam...
Developments in acoustic survey techniques, in particular multibeam sonar, have revolutionised the way we are able to image, map and understand the seabed...
This study presents results of a new approach for sea floor habitat mapping based on an integrated analysis of multibeam bathymetric data, associated...
Integrated spatial management (ISM) of offshore lands has always been constrained by a lack of high-quality information on the marine ecosystem. Precisely...