The Management Board has identified the following 2020-2025 research priorities for the Environmental Studies Research Fund.
| Research Area |
Research needs / Questions to answer |
| Seabirds |
- Oil spill preparedness and response for impacts to seabirds
- Decline of Leach’s storm petrel populations in Atlantic Canada
- Attraction of migratory birds to lighting
|
| Indigenous knowledge studies |
- Understand what is Indigenous knowledge (IK)
- Determine how IK could be included in research projects
|
| Climate change |
|
| Marine mammals and fish |
- Improve data / knowledge of marine mammals in deeper waters of Newfoundland & Labrador offshore
- Data gaps in location of spawning and rearing areas offshore Newfoundland & Labrador
- Atlantic salmon migratory behaviours at sea
|
| Coral and sponges communities |
- Understanding the potential effects of smothering and drill cutting on coral and sponge communities
|
| Oil spill effects and responses |
- Timely/effective oil spill treatment strategies
- Spill fate and effects (modeling)
|
| Marine noise |
- Effect of seismic surveys
- Impact of marine noise
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