Fonds MS-2-789 - Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of Bill Freedman using binoculars on Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of Bill Freedman using binoculars on Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of coastline of Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of Northern Light at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of Bill Freedman and others at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of coastline of Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of Bill Freedman and others at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of researchers at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of geological formations on the coast of Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of the village of Westport, Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of an herbicide-spraying helicopter at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of an herbicide-spraying helicopter at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of a helicopter spraying Glyphosate at Brier Island, Nova Scotia Photograph of an oiled blue-winged teal at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of an oiled embayment at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of oil along the shore at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of oil invading a marshy embayment at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of oil and cladophora along the shore at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of an oil pollution control tanker truck at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of oil along the shore at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of a researcher examining weathered crude oil at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of a docked "slick licker" at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of weathered crude oil affecting Corex at Alexandria Bay, New York
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Bill Freedman fonds

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6.8 m of textual records
6514 photographs : b&w and colour slides ; 35 mm
18 photographs
ca. 3.6 TB data acquired from 1 desktop computer hard drive, 5 laptop computer hard drives, 2 external hard drives, 7 USB thumb drives, 5 zip disks, 67 5 ¼ in. floppy disks, 228 3 ½ in. floppy disks, 57 CDs, and 6 DVDs

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(1950 - 2015)

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Bill Freedman, born 20 January 1950, was a dedicated naturalist, conservationist and environmental scientist. He was a professor and researcher in the Department of Biology and in the School for Resource and Environmental Studies at Dalhousie University from 1979–2015, teaching classes in introductory biology, environmental science and environmental ecology. From 2000–2007 he served as Chair of the Biology Department; he held the George H.S. Campbell Chair in Biology from 2007–2010 and was appointed Professor Emeritus on his retirement in 2015.

Freedman’s research examined the impact of human economic activities on ecosystems and biodiversity. His interests included the ecological repercussions of a wide range of industrial activities, in particular those associated with forestry, including the effects of pesticides, metals, sulphur dioxide, acidification and nutrient inputs to freshwater. He studied forests as CO2-emission offsets, urban ecology, the design of environmental monitoring programs, and ecologically sustainable systems of resource use. Although much of his research was carried out in the Arctic and in boreal and temperate forest regions of Canada, he travelled widely to observe ecosystems and biodiversity on a global scale. He participated in environmental impact assessments of proposed and operating industrial facilities, and served on several government advisory panels. Freedman was a prolific writer who published 10 books (including the first Canadian Environmental Science textbook), more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, hundreds of scientific papers and research reports, and several thousand encyclopedia entries.

Freedman was a dedicated volunteer with the Nature Conservancy of Canada, serving as a national trustee and sitting for 26 years on the national Board of Directors (1991–2015). He also chaired the Atlantic Regional Board and the NCC's National Science Advisory Network, as well as sitting on the Board of Directors of the Tree Canada Foundation, which raises funds and awareness for planting non-industrial trees in urban and rural settings.

In 2006 Freedman received the Canadian Environmental Award, Gold Medal Level, in the category of Community Awards for Conservation from the Canadian Geographic Society; in 2007 he received a Career Achievement Award from the Canadian Council of University Biology Chairs. Shortly after his death on 26 September 2015, the NCC dedicated a coastal reserve in Prospect, Nova Scotia, in his honour, renaming it the Dr. Bill Freedman Nature Reserve.

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Fonds donated to the Dalhousie University Archives by George-Anne Merrill in 2016 (accession 2016-015). Fonds includes material acquired from two offices maintained by Bill Freedman: his office at Dalhousie University and his home office.

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Fonds contains material relating to the personal life and professional career of Bill Freedman (1950-2015), an environmental scientist based at Dalhousie University. Fonds includes research data, teaching materials, publications, manuscripts and draft manuscripts, correspondence, committee and meeting minutes, electronic records, analogue and digital photographs, thousands of 35 mm slides, video cassettes, and appointments and awards.

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Access to digital archival material requires advance notice and availability of necessary computer hardware and software.
There are no access restrictions on these materials. All materials are open for research.

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Materials do not circulate and must be used in the Archives and Special Collections Reading Room. Materials may be under copyright. Contact departmental staff for guidance on reproduction.

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