File contains original botanical drawings by Gary Hicks. These drawings are also present in Gary Hicks' textbooks, "Land Plants : A Survey" and "Plant Development".
File contains photographs of John Ready (items 75-77) and Warwick Kimmins (items 75, 77). - "John Ready and Prof. Warwick Kimmins check the root-stock activity of the bean plant in the growth chnmber. The roots are immersed in the piping where nutrient solution is continuously flushed through." John Ready, Honours Biology student.
Item is a photograph of ceramic mushrooms. The mushrooms in the photo are part of a collection of ceramic mushrooms native to Nova Scotia, made by Alma Lorenzen and donated to Dalhousie by Miss Constance Macfarlane.
Item is a photograph of ceramic mushrooms. The mushrooms in the photo are part of a collection of ceramic mushrooms native to Nova Scotia, made by Alma Lorenzen and donated to Dalhousie by Miss Constance Macfarlane.
Item is a ticket to an electro-biology class at an unidentified school. The ticket is printed on thick blue card and Jame Baxter's name is written on the back.
File contains correspondence between Leslie E. Haley and Nova Scotia Department of Education's Biology Task Force, a draft typescript entitled Biology 20-30: Program Outline, and meeting agendas.
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.
Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP). The History of Marine Animal Populations project traces evidence of how human activity and nature have changed marine life in recent years. The project, led by Irish scientist Paul Holm, Danish scientists Brian MacKenzie, Anne Husum Marboe and Bo Poulsen, and American Andrew Rosenberg, examined the prevalence of shell jewellery, evidence found in whaling logs, fishing boats' taxation logs, historical storm records, and numerous other primary and secondary sources, documenting humanity’s destruction of marine habitats, fish stocks and invertebrate populations.
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.
Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP). The Tagging of Pacific Predators project electronically tagged and tracked 4300 different marine predators, including sharks, seals and seabirds, tracing routes taken by these species in their search for ocean prey. The project, headed by American scientists Barbara Black, Steven Bograd, Daniel Costa and Randy Kochevar, discovered that many animals travel entire oceans at a variety of depths, from the poles to the tropics, continent to continent, in the search for food. It was also discovered that many predatory marine creatures migrate along the same oceanic corridors, congregating along their feeding routes.
Subseries contains correspondence, conference notes, and research articles related to regional subcommittees operating under the Census of Marine Life umbrella.
Subseries contains records related to the management of the Census of Marine Life in general. File includes membership rolls, general budgeting information, Loan applications, meeting minutes, and CoML-related news and promotional information.
