Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee, Arctic Ocean Diversity (ArcOD). The Arctic Ocean Diversity project was designed to catalogue animal species and microbes found in the Arctic region—on, in and under the sea ice, in deep basins and along the continental shelves. The project was led by American scientists Bodil Bluhm, Rolf Gradinger and Russ Hopcroft, who sought to document the northward extensions of ranges of Arctic fish and invertebrates.

File includes a short paper written by Gilbert Winham, likely in the early-1970s when he was working in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, titled "Arctic Story", about the potential for development in the North and the proclaiming of Canadian Arctic sovereignty.