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Shelburne Sub-Basin Play Fairway Analysis Update

November 2018 – June 2019

Shortly after the Scotian Shelf and Slope Play Fairway Analysis (PFA) was released in 2011, Shell Canada acquired six exploration parcels in the Shelburne Subbasin and collected approximately 10,850 square kilometers of wide azimuth 3D seismic data.

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Maricarmen Guerra Paris

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University

“For me, it has been exciting to learn how to use new instruments and to test how the different instruments and techniques, that we typically use in the field, work and compare in both controlled environments and energetic tidal channels. This research matters because turbulence measurements are difficult in highly-energetic environments, turbulence varies spatially and in time, and it is not easy to accurately capture its variability.”

Biome Renewables project Sahra Skripsky, Dr. Sue Molloy, Simon Herbinger

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Testing of a New Turbine Blade Design and Blade Materials

Because there’s not yet a standardized, optimal way of extracting power from tidal currents, many tidal industry technologies are currently being tested around the world. The Testing of a New Turbine Blade Design and Blade Materials project used Canada’s largest university aquatic research facility – Dalhousie University’s Aquatron – to demonstrate the potential of a new hydrokinetic tidal turbine design.

Image courtesy of Saint Mary's University.

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Christopher Sangster

M.Sc. student, Department of Geology, Saint Mary’s University

Time spent as a child on the beaches of his home province instilled in Chris Sangster a natural curiosity about his surroundings. “My interest in geology began when I was quite young,” he says. “My parents and I spent a lot of time exploring the beaches around Nova Scotia and collecting interesting rocks and sometimes fossils which we would come across.”

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How Does Sound Travel in High Energy Environments? Effectiveness of Acoustic Monitoring Systems and Turbine Audibility Assessment

OERA Energy Update - October, 2020

NEWS RELEASE: Study shows how hydrogen fits in Atlantic region's energy transition

Maricarmen Guerra Paris

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University

Testing of a New Turbine Blade Design and Blade Materials

Christopher Sangster

M.Sc. student, Department of Geology, Saint Mary’s University