FERN Newsletters
Issue 5, Winter 2016
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In this issue:
- FERN Activities and Accomplishments
- NS Department of Energy
- Offshore Energy Research Association
- FORCE: 2015 Highlights
- Research at Small-Scale Tidal Sites
- Tidal Research in Maine
- Acadia Tidal Energy Institute
- Tidal Engineering Research at Dalhousie
- Dal Oceanographers Measure Noise, Turbulence and Waves
- Dynamic Systems Analysis
- Overwintering of Striped Bass in Minas Passage
- Turbine Array Impacts on Suspended Sediments in Minas Basin
- Cape Sharp Tidal Making Headway
- Upcoming Events
Issue 4, Fall 2014
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In this issue:
- FERN Activities and Accomplishments 2014
- ICOE: 2014 Recap
- Research at Small-Scale Tidal Sites
- Updates from the Department of Energy & OERA
- FORCE: 2014 Highlights
- Standards Development for Marine Energy Converters
- Tidal Research in Maine
- Acadia Tidal Energy Institute
- INORE Symposium 2014
- Upcoming Events
Issue 3, Fall 2013
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In this issue:
- Message from the FERN Coordinator
- Report from the 2013 Annual General Meeting
- Report on the FERN Subcommittees
- 2013 Nova Scotia Tidal Energy Research Symposium & Forum
- FORCE: 2013 Highlights
- NS Tidal Energy Projects & Activities 2010-2013
- Tidal Energy at the Nova Scotia Department of Energy
- Update from the OERA
- Tidal R&D in Maine
- Acadia Tidal Energy Institute
- Tidal Research in Digby Neck
- 2013 Hudson Cruise in Minas Basin & Passage
- First Submarine Cable Installed at FORCE
- Upcoming Events
Issue 2, Spring 2012
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In this issue:
- Message from the FERN Coordinator
- Socioeconomics Scoping Study for Tidal Power in Nova Scotia
- Fundy Tidal Energy Environmental Monitoring Technical Workshop
- Pathways of Effects for Marine Renewable Energy
- Update from FORCE
- Update from OEER
- Tracking Lobster Movements in Minas Basin
- The Maine Tidal Power Initiative
- Marine Renewable Energy at Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Highlights of Students and Young Professionals Projects:
- Use of Minas Passage by a threatened striped bass population
- Characteristics of the flow in the channels of Digby Neck
- Ambient noise measurement and marine mammal monitoring in a high-flow environment : defining baseline conditions prior to tidal turbine installation
- Benthic habitat characterization of the tidal power turbine demonstration site in the Minas Passage, Bay of Fundy
- Far-field effects of energy extraction on salt marsh hydrodynamics and depositional processes in the Minas Basin
- Socio-economic benefits and challenges for communities in small-scale tidal energy development in the Bras d'Or Lakes, Cape Breton
- Tidally-induced sediment transport patterns in the upper Bay of Fundy: a numerical study
Issue 1, Spring 2011
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In this issue:
- Message from the FERN Executive & Coordinator
- FERN - A Part of what is Moving the Bay of Fundy to the Centre of the Tidal World, Chris Campbell, OREG
- Update on the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy, Matt Lumley, FORCE
- Update on the OEER Association, Jennifer Matthews, OEER
- Technology Roadmap for Marine Renewable Energy, June 2011 Update, James Taylor
- Upcoming Events
- Updates from the FERN Subcommittees
Highlights of Members' Fundy Research Projects:
- Potential Effects of Marine Renewable Energy Developments on the Aquatic Environment, Ted Currie, DFO
- Resource Assessments of Tidal Currents, Richard Karsten, Acadia University
- New Geological Survey of Canada Project, Phil Hill, GSC - Pacific
- GSCA Sediment Dynamics Research in the Bay of Fundy, Michael Li, Angus Robertson, and Robert Prescott, GSC- Atlantic
- Discovering the Seafloor of the Bay of Fundy, Brian J.Todd and John Shaw, GSC-Atlantic
- Detection of Marine Mammals in the FORCE Leased Area during 2010, Dominic Tollit (SMRU Ltd) and Anna Redden (Acadia University)
- Efficiency Implications for Ducted Tidal Turbines, M.Shives and C.Crawford, University of Victoria
- Tidal Power- From Fundy to the World, Andrew Sullivan, University of Cambridge
- The Development of Active Sonar for Marine Mammal Detection at the SeaGen Tidal Turbine, Cara Donovan, MCT