Research Projects
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Mapping Marine Traffic: Providing Canada’s Coastal Communities with Tools to Understand Shipping and its Risks
September 6, 2022
Clear Seas is undertaking a project to illustrate the state of marine shipping in Canada and enable communities to better express their concerns about the risks relating to shipping.
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Marine Shipping Trends in the Canadian Arctic
December 23, 2021
Assessment of marine shipping trends over the past 30 years in the Canadian Arctic, focusing on two sites in the Northwest Passage. The project offers recommendations on risk management strategies, impact mitigation, and including Inuit knowledge and perspectives in policymaking.
Completed
Maritime Commercial Incidents and Accidents
July 12, 2021
Clear Seas examined the spatial distribution of commercial marine shipping incidents and accidents in and around Canadian waters and created an interactive, user-friendly visualization tool to share this data. Accessible to all, this tool can be used to highlight areas of potential shipping risks, identify trends in marine incident reporting, and help inform policymakers and the public on the safety of marine shipping in Canada.