Fonds consists of reports, press clippings, information about individual and society delegates, and administration and planning records for the 1981 Learned Societies Conference held at Dalhousie University.
Item consists of a bound compilation of the papers from the first Atlantic Oral History Conference hosted in Truro, Nova Scotia from October 19-21, 1979. The Conference featured papers by James Morrison, Doris Saunders, Joleen Gordon, Ron LaBelle, John Hennigar-Shue, Kathy Kuusisto, Tony McKenzie, Robert Morgan, Jim Hornby, Bertin Webster, Hugh Taylor, and Gary Hughes.
The fonds includes reports (1978-1995), events and conferences (1979-1991), membership (1978-1995), financial records (1978-1991), minutes (1978-1993), correspondence (1978-1985), administrative records (1978-1995), programs (1979-1992), catalogues (1978-1992), newsletters (978-1990) and photographs (1982, n.d.) related to the APA.
Series contains research files, correspondence, conference meeting minutes and notes compiled by Ron O'Dor and other members of the Census of Marine Life steering committee and subcommittees.
Series consists of records created and collected by Richard Apostle that document his involvement in establishing a regional development research institute in Klaksvik, Faroe Islands. His primary scholarly output from this collaborative endeavour was the book The Restructuration of the Faroese Economy: The Significance of the Inner Periphery, by Richard Apostle, Dennis Holm, Gestur Hovgaard, Olavur Waag Hognesen and Bjarni Mortensen. A subseries contains records documenting the development of a book about the amalgamation of municipalities in the Faroe Islands. Records types include correspondence; draft manuscripts; studies and papers; budgets and financial reports; meeting minutes; and research data and notes. Records include correspondence and reports in Faroese, Icelandic and Danish.
Series consists of material regarding the Cephalopod International Advisory Council (CIAC). The CIAC was founded in 1983 and consists of nine executive members and nine alternate members. The advisory council was designed to ensure a progressive evolution of membership to reflect trends in living cephalopod research. Record types include meeting minutes, symposium materials and manuscripts.
Series contains materials from the organization Churchmembers Assembled to React to AIDS (CARA or CARAS) and includes meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, and educational materials. Fonds also contains records from two projects run by CARA: Morton House, a hospice for people living with AIDS, and AIDS-LINK, a project aimed at connecting people with AIDS to resources and support.
Item is a videocassette of part of the 1985 Appacue Spring Forum. Dr. Jocelyn Picco leads a computer demonstration. While Picco speaks, the demonstration occurs, which includes databases, images, videos, and text. Database video protocol is discussed. The Association of Atlantic Universities was involved with this forum. The video was requested by Picco.
File contains correspondence and a program for the conference, which took place at the Millennium in St. John's, Newfoundland (October 19-21, 2000). Budge Wilson participated in the conference.
Item is a videocassette of a lecture by Dr. John Farley, who spoke as part of the "Medicine and the Humanities" conferences at Dalhousie University. The video was requested by J. Penny from the Dean's Office.
File contains records from the 1994 Atlantic Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Conference [ALGBC], "We Are Everywhere", and includes one conference schedule; correspondence between ALGBC and Kevin Crombie regarding the New Queer Family Workshop; a workshop agenda outline; and a document discussing perceptions of sex.
Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Natural Geography in Shore Areas (NaGISA). The Natural Geography in Shore Areas project sought to produce a worldwide near-shore biodiversity inventory, examining marine life in seagrass beds and along rock shores. The project, led by an international contingent of scientists from Japan (Yoshihisa Shirayama), United States (Brenda Konar and Katrin Iken), Venezuela (Patricia Miloslavich and Juan José Cruz Motta), Italy (Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi), Kenya (Edward Kimani) and Canada (Gerhard Pohle), sampled data from 200 short-term sites and 40 long-terms sites, discovering new species and recording the habits and habitats of other species in new areas.
File contains materials relating to Now We Can Talk About AIDS : A First national Conference for Gaylines in Canada hosted by Pink Triangle Services, held in Ottawa from February 25-27, 1994. Materials in file include one copy of the conference agenda, one copy of official conference proceedings, associated correspondence for the aforementioned documents, two copies of a list of gaylines in Canada, two copies of a list of conference attendees, and reference materials for helpline workers.
Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life affiliate program, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS). The Ocean Biogeographic Information System project, compiled alongside the Census of Marine Life, serves as the world's largest online repository of spatially referenced marine life data, containing millions of records created from hundreds of CoML datasets. The project, led by American scientists Edward Vanden Berghe and J. Frederick Grassle (previously by New Zealander Mark J. Costello), locates all oceanic species in a permanent, evolving repository, identifying oceanic points of high diversity, tracking species dispersion, and integrating species locales with variables such as temperature, salinity, and depth.
Series consists of seven audio cassettes and textual records. The audio cassettes are oral history field recordings on the Jos Plateau recorded by James Morrison. The textual records are from Atlantic oral history association's conference hosted by James Morrison in Truro.
Series contains two subseries: Audio cassettes, and Atlantic oral history association.
File contains a meeting summary between staff of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Nova Scotia Museum, and Ross Farm Museum held at the Nova Scotia Museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 17 June 1987. The meeting was about how to identify and understand historical crop varieties and educate the public about changes in plant material and the important of genetic diversity.
Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project (POST). The Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking project provided the first continent-wide research to acoustically track the migratory patterns of 18 species of marine life familiar to the Pacific coast. The project, led by American-Canadian scientist James Bolger, examined the migratory patterns of salmon, jumbo squid, sturgeon, and other coastal marine life, gathering data on roughly 16,000 individuals. The project served as a smaller-scale precursor of the Ocean Tracking Network.
Item is a videocassette of a seminar given by Howard Barrows of the Southern Illinois University of Medicine. The seminar was part of a day-long conference at the Dalhousie Medical School. The video was requested by R. Bowden from the Medical Education Unit.
Item is a videocassette of a seminar given by Howard Barrows of the Southern Illinois University of Medicine. The seminar was part of a day-long conference at the Dalhousie Medical School. The video was requested by R. Bowden from the Medical Education Unit.
Item is a videocassette of a seminar given by Howard Barrows of the Southern Illinois University of Medicine. The seminar was part of a day-long conference at the Dalhousie Medical School. The video was requested by R. Bowden from the Medical Education Unit.
Item is a videocassette of a seminar given by Howard Barrows of the Southern Illinois University of Medicine. The seminar was part of a day-long conference at the Dalhousie Medical School. The video was requested by R. Bowden from the Medical Education Unit.
Subseries contains correspondence, conference notes, and research articles related to regional subcommittees operating under the Census of Marine Life umbrella.
File also includes correspondence with the manager of the National Postal Museum; a spreadsheet detailing the museum's layout in February 1977; a photograph from the 1971 conference, which includes Hicks; and transcripts of two conference addresses.
File contains one web print-out from 2004 entitled Same-Sex Marriage for Transsexuals?; one sheet of information regarding Ontario's 2005 tribunal on sexual reassignment surgery; correspondence from 2005; one copy of the essay An Introduction to Transgender Women by participants of the 1999 Women's Legal Education and Action Fund forum; and one package of slides from the presentation Transsexual Health Care in Nova Scotia.
Fonds contains records created and collected by Ronald O'Dor in the course of his work as a marine biologist based at Dalhousie University, predominantly materials generated by the two major research projects: Census of Marine Life (CoML) and Ocean Tracking Network (OTN). Record types include research data, teaching materials, publications, manuscripts, correspondence, and committee and meeting minutes.
Series contains correspondence, field notes, meeting minutes, presentation slides, and photographs related to Ron O'Dor's early-career research into cephalopoda behaviour, feeding practices of bivalve larvae in zero gravity environments, and other mollusca and marine biology projects.
Subseries contains records related to Ron O'Dor's attendance at conferences, symposiums and meetings under the auspices of the Census of Marine Life, but not specifically related to any of the CoML subcommittees.
Series comprises records related to Ron O'Dor's published articles, papers and conference presentations, including manuscripts, correspondence, publishing agreements and conference materials. Other manuscripts and related correspondence and papers are found within the general and named research series.
Item is an audio recording of the proceedings of the third Pacem in Maribus VI committee, held on October 2, 1975 in Okinawa, Japan. The recording is on side B of audio cassette.
Fonds contains records relating to Susan Kerslake's writing and personal life, including manuscripts of published and unpublished work; correspondence, early writing and schoolwork, photographs, awards, articles and books reviews, and materials from events she attended.
Series contains materials related to Kerslake’s involvement with organizations or events related to her writing. The organizations represented in the series are the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia, the Writer’s Council of Nova Scotia, and CBC. The events represented in this series are the Dalhousie Medical School’s Medicine and the Humanities event, the Maritime Writer’s Workshop, and an Arts Festival.
File also contains conference schedules and information, requests to publish excerpts of Susan Kerslake's talk and poems, copies of the poems featured, a list of conference participants, correspondence, and an article about the conference describing Kerslake's involvement.
This file consists of write-up of the different papers that are presented at the conference at Mount Allison University in November of 1968. This file also contains a schedule of events.