Fonds consists of records pertaining primarily to the professional activities of Ransom Myers and the major organizations and projects with which he was affiliated during his career as Killam Oceans Chair at Dalhousie University; there are also records created during his doctoral studies and his tenure as a research scientist at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. The collection includes correspondence, draft manuscripts, offprints, conference and association materials, presentations, course and teaching materials, litigation and consultancy records (including affidavits and invoices), photographs, annotated research materials, press collected about Myers’ work or pertaining to his research, student files, datasets and web content.
Item is a photograph of Dr. Bostwick H. Ketchum and Dr. Gordon A. Riley (Oceanography Professor). - Photograph was taken by Wamboldt-Waterfield Photography Limited. - "LIN vol. 5 no. 16 pg.3".
File contains spiral bound document with an invitation to MacLaren Marex Inc. to produce studies on waterflow surveys and habitat investigations with Ducks Unlimited Canada Projects in the Maritimes, and on marsh bird surveys and habitat evaluation of Ducks Unlimited Canada's Maritime cookie-cutter projects.
File contains letters sent to Alan Ruffman by various correspondents, including J.M. Bewers, R.L.G. Gilbert, Robert W. Morse, Graham Doyle, L.M. Lauzier, Paul E. Vandall Jr. and J.D. Keys. Some of the letters contain handwritten notes possibly written by Alan Ruffman.
File contains letters sent by Alan Ruffman to correspondents including L.M. Lauzier, B.D. Locanrevic, Dr. William Ford, Dr. Gordon E. Beanlands, Mike Simmons and Charles Raymond. Some of the correspondence contains handwritten notes possibly written by Alan Ruffman.
File contains a programme of a conference co-sponsored by the Public Services Committee of the Faculty of Law and the Centre for International Business Studies of the School of Business Administration, both at Dalhousie University.
File contains a Canadian special publication of fisheries and aquatic sciences, number 57, of the Canadian Committee on Oceanography. File also contains a membership application form for the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society.
Files contains three papers. The paper's titles are "recent trends in degrees awarded and enrolments a Canadian universities", "university enrolment projection to 2000", "the stock of research trained personnel" and "research manpower requirements arising from accelerated expenditures on R&D".
File contains a study by the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System with a compilation of preliminary ship schedules of University Oceanographic Laboratories for coordination and review by UNOLS participants and researchers.
File contains an agenda of presentations about the role of government enterprise in the offshore oil and gas industry, and the fishing joint venture appraised held at Dalhousie University.
