Maintenance for RRU Research Boat and Oceanographic Equipment

Dr. Dallimore was awarded Research and Professional Development funds for maintenance of the Raincoast Survey and oceanographic equipment after a successful research and cultural survey.

The summer of 2018 will be the fourth operational season for the Royal Roads nearshore research boat, the Raincoast Survey, which was funded by the CFI, Leaders Opportunity Fund. Over the past four years, Raincoast Survey has been operating continuously for the summer months in support of RRU undergraduate student field trips, graduate student thesis projects, working with First Nations in their nearshore territories to help study eco-cultural landscapes such as clam gardens, field trips for First Nations students from the Ahosuaht, Wsanec and Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group to meet with their elders on field trips to the clam gardens in the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve (GINPR) and to map the inner harbour of Ahousaht in Clayoquot Sound with the students of the local Maaqtusiis Secondary Tribal School. Raincoast Survey has also been used extensively in Clayoquot Sound in support of my now ten year research program to determine the paleoseismic history of the Cascadia Subduction Zone , a project which has now trained two post-graduate research assistants in nearshore boat operations, geoscience and oceanography. This grant application is to support needed 300 hour maintenance on the boat engines and a required three year maintenance on the CTD oceanographic probe mounted on the boat.