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.
File contains manuscripts, draft manuscripts, correspondence, agreements and data sets relating to the article Plant Communities of Selected Urbanized Areas of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
File contains manuscripts, correspondence, reviewer comments and research data relating to the article Tree Species Composition, Structure, and Carbon Storage in Stands of Urban Forest of Varying Character is Halifax, Nova Scotia.
File contains manuscript, reviewer comments and correspondence relating to the article Comparative Catch Efficiency of Amphibian Sampling Methods in Terrestrial Habitats in Southern New Brunswick.
File contains draft manuscripts, review comments, correspondence and research data relating to the article Effects of Forest Clearcutting on the Water Quality and Riparian Vegetation of Streams Ecosystems in Southeast New Brunswick.
File contains the manuscript written by Freedman and M. Crowell, for the Canadian Journal of Forest Research, volume 24. File also includes data sets related to Twinspan and Decorana runs, correspondence, and reviewers comments. Manuscript was originally titled "Vegetation development across a post-disturbance chronosequence of hardwood-forest in Nova Scotia".
File contains manuscripts, draft manuscripts, reviewer comments, correspondence and data sets relating to the article Trace Elements in Water, Sediment, and Biota of Three Oligotrophic Lakes in Queens and Annapolis Counties, Nova Scotia.
File contains manuscripts, draft manuscripts and correspondence relating to the article Physical and Chemical Characteristics of Three Acidic Oligotrophic Lakes and Their Watersheds in Kejmkujik National Park, Nova Scotia.
File contains 73 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at the sites of small, controlled, experimental oil spills near Tuktoyaktuk (Pingo, Point, Meadow, Lupin), predominantly from 1973 and 1974. Also includes some photos from similar experiments at Cape Parry. Photographs document experimentation of regrowth of vegetation in response to small-scale oil spills.