Beaufort Regional Environmental Assessment

This cutting-edge project, led by ArcticNet, uses state-of-the-art fisheries sonar technology to map the distribution and abundance of Arctic Cod and other fish in the offshore Beaufort Sea […]

The purpose of this project is threefold: (i) to establish the background levels of hydrocarbons in sediment, zooplankton, benthic invertebrates, and fish, (ii) to establish baseline […]

Over the years, a significant amount of data has been collected in the Beaufort Sea, but it is widely scattered. Searching for the best available datasets is often difficult. Downloading, […]

An important part of oil spill response planning is to develop tools to assist in assessing the risks from oil spills and the benefits of countermeasures (e.g., dispersants, in-situ burning) […]

The Beaufort Sea Region provides marine and coastal habitat for hundreds of thousands of migrating and breeding birds. This project is identifying important nearshore and coastal […]

This project is synthesizing existing information on offshore bird populations in the Beaufort Sea into a geo-referenced database. The database will include information on the offshore […]

Sea ice exerts important seasonal effects on weather and climate, marine ecosystems, the safety of marine transportation, northern communities and offshore resource development […]

Although there is growing evidence that the polar pack is decreasing in extent and thickness, icebergs, ice islands and thick, deformed multi-year ice continue to pose a hazard. This […]

This project will demonstrate the feasibility of using satellite-based imagery to delineate extreme ridge features in sea ice of the Beaufort Sea. Data collected from ice profiling sonar […]

Among the most serious challenges to operating in the Beaufort Sea are widely varying sea ice types and severe ice conditions. This project is using electromagnetic surveys and drift […]

Fisheries and Oceans Canada, in collaboration with six Inuvialuit communities, are conducting a four year study that will include a fishing survey in deeper waters (100–1000 m) of the […]

Drilling operations in the Beaufort Sea are increasingly focused on the shelf break between the deep and shallow parts of the Sea – an area characterized by extreme weather events, ocean […]

With potential development in the Beaufort Sea offshore, there is a need to implement an operational ocean-ice-atmosphere (OIA) model that includes the Beaufort Sea in order to plan […]

Vessels containing and/or storing fuel are frozen into ice that is anchored to the shoreline (land-fast ice) throughout the Beaufort region over the winter months. The practice, called […]

The potential presence of polar bears in the deep waters of the offshore region of the Beaufort Sea has been a longstanding interest of Inuvialuit communities, but scientific surveys for bears […]

Sea ice within the Beaufort Sea region circulates according to the predominantly anti-cyclonic Beaufort Gyre, but very little quantitative information about sea ice motion exists. This […]

There is growing global interest in marine shipping and oil and gas development in the Southern Beaufort Sea as ice cover in Arctic waters diminishes over the summer months […]

Oil and gas exploration in the deep waters of the Beaufort Sea requires knowledge of seabed stability conditions to ensure safe drilling practices. Under this initiative, the Geological […]

This project is building a baseline understanding of ecosystem structure and function of the Beaufort Sea coastal food web. The project uses food-web biomarkers at a regional scale that […]

The purpose of this project is to provide an inventory of existing knowledge pertaining to regional scale coastal processes affecting the siting, planning and management of coastal […]

Predicting the weather days in advance is standard fare in most parts of the country. But for oil and gas companies considering exploration and drilling activities in the Arctic, anticipating […]

This initiative is establishing three oceanographic observatories, each composed of two moorings, to collect year-round marine observations of the Beaufort Sea using state-of-the-art […]

The BREA Toolkit GIS applications are universal to record baseline information and for map production. However, advanced GIS capabilities such as scenario analysis and cumulative […]