Collaboration
GSC Atlantic partnerships facilitate sharing of expertise and resources for project delivery in response to our clients' needs for marine geoscience information and knowledge. Joint ventures include projects with:
- other divisions of the Geological Survey of Canada
- universities and research institutes in Canada and abroad
- other federal government departments
- provincial government agencies
- international agencies
- resource and environmental industries
- engineering and technology companies
GSC Atlantic's research contributes to a wide variety of marine geoscience issues through new and archived data, state-of-the-art concepts and practices, and technology development.
The Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic) Developing Roles
GSC Atlantic's roles arise from changes in the goals of government - sponsored research towards:
- a focus of research in the solution of resource and environmental problems
- an increase of joint ventures with industry for project delivery and technology development, under cost-shared arrangements
- an expanding international role in the provision of marine geoscience expertise
- the initiation of multi-institutional/multi-disciplinary, cost-shared research projects