BDR Research Limited

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Background / Current Projects

BDR Research Limited is a fully Canadian-owned consulting and research organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Formed in 1989, the company has been involved with multidisciplinary studies in the fields of marine chemistry, sediment geophysics and climate studies. Projects have been done in collaboration with consulting companies, universities and government agencies, including the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the National Research Council of Canada. The company has demonstrated proficiency at conducting a variety of interdisciplinary R&D programs in the field of environmental studies.

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Past Contracts

  • Microbiological studies on the Biodegradation of Hydrocarbons
  • Particle Dynamics Analyses and Inorganic Grain Size Spectra Using Particle Dynamics Laboratory (PDL) Techniques
  • Identification of Compounds Representing Organically-Bound Chlorine in Lobster Digestive Gland Tissue
    Carbon Dioxide Measurements in the Ocean
  • Modelling of Contaminant Transport in Harbours
  • Microbiological studies on the Biodegradation of Hydrocarbons
    Particle Dynamics Analyses and Inorganic Grain Size Spectra Using Particle Dynamics Laboratory (PDL) Techniques
  • Carbon Dioxide Measurements in the Ocean
  • Microbiological studies on the Biodegradation of Hydrocarbons: Significance of Natural Seepage and Enhanced Biodegradation
  • Analysis of Inorganic Disaggregated Grain Size Using Precision Coulter Counter Techniques and PDL Data Processing Techniques
  • Analysis of Inorganic Disaggregated Grain Size Using Coulter Counter Techniques & PDL Data Processing Techniques
    Oceanic CO2 Measurements: Transport of CO2 from Atmosphere to the Deep Ocean
  • Development and Evaluation of Marine Oil Spill Bioremediation Agents.
    Analysis of Clay-oil flocculation processes: Environmental-Scanning Electron Microscopy
  • Evaporation of Crude Oils and Gas Condensates under the Physical/Chemical Conditions found in the Atlantic Region of Canada
  • A Field and Modelling Investigation of Contaminant Transport During the Spring Phytoplankton Bloom in Bedford Basin
  • Carbon Dioxide Measurements in the Amundsen and Markarov Basins of the Arctic Ocean
  • Chlorofluorocarbon and Total Carbonate Measurements in the Labrador Sea
  • Carbon Dioxide Measurements in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans

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Contact Information

Civic address
6161 Prospect Road
East Dover, Nova Scotia
CANADA B3Z 3T7

Mailing address
Box 652, Station Central
Halifax, Nova Scotia
CANADA B3J 2T3

email address
info@bdr-research.ca

Telephone / FAX
902-852-3997

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Biographical Information

Robert M. Gershey, President
University of Scranton, B.Sc. Chemistry
Texas A&M University, M.Sc. Oceanography
Dalhousie University, PhD. Oceanography

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Icebreaker CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent in Arctic Ocean - SHEBA project 

Last revised:  05/2013