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Arctic Shelf Tracking and Physics Array (ASTAPA)

Series consists of correspondence, grant applications, newspaper clippings and reports related to the Arctic Shelf Tracking and Physics Array Project, a proposal by Ron O'Dor and his colleagues to commemorate the International Polar Year (IPY).

Ron O'Dor fonds

  • MS-2-778
  • Fonds
  • 1965-2019
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.

O'Dor, Ronald

Teaching records

Series comprises Ron O'Dor's teaching materials, including course syllabi, exams and reading lists, as well as assignments and student evaluations for courses he developed and taught in the areas of biology and marine biology.

European Marine Biodiversity Initiative

File contains the outline of a proposal for an Integrated European Research Program under the auspices of The European Marine Biodiversity Initiative (written by Carlo Heip). File also includes proposals by Heip for a conference series on Biodiversity of Coastal Marine Ecosystems, with predominantly European participation, under the auspices of the Census of Marine Life.

Ron O'Dor's manuscripts and conference materials

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.

Figures of a fish respirometer

  • MS-2-778.2019-051, Box 78, Folder 17
  • File
  • [ca. 2002]

    • Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

File contains images used in a Ron O'Dor publication on fish respirometer, actual article is unknown.

Ron O'Dor's career research records

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.

O'Dor, Ronald

Census of Marine Life (CoML)

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.

OBIS: Ocean Biogeographic Information System

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.

Postcards sent to Ron O'Dor

  • MS-2-778.2019-051, Box 58, Folder 22
  • File
  • 1991-2009

    • Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

File includes a card from Halifax mayor Peter Kelly congratulating O'Dor on being named environmental scientist of the year by Canadian Geographic.

Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation meeting held in June 2001

File includes slides of Ron O'Dor's and Cynthia Decker's presentation, a photograph of the attendees, information related to nominations for Pew Fellowships submitted by Ron O'Dor, and correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Cynthia Robinson, Frederika Moser, Stephen Hall, Debie Meck, and others.
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