“Apathy bites deeper than any shark." - Jeffrey Gallant, GEERG
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The Greenland Shark and Elasmobranch Education and Research Group is a not-for-profit registered Canadian charity that requires financial assistance from corporations and private citizens to conduct field operations. All donations are tax deductible in Canada (Canada Revenue Agency Registration Number: 834462913RR0001) and also in the United States. American donations are made through SRI (Shark Research Institute), a non-profit 501(c)(3) scientific research organization.
Our research procedures are entirely non-lethal since we believe that information obtained by killing sharks is available through other means. When you make a donation to GEERG, you do not endanger any shark's well-being in the name of science.
Over the next five years, GEERG researchers will conduct the most extensive shark distribution project ever undertaken in the St. Lawrence. In order to accomplish this task over such a large area, we must secure funding to cover costs associated with the operation of our research vessel. No salaries are ever paid. All work conducted by GEERG scientists and assistants is done on a volunteer basis.
GEERG's research vessel, the R/V Skalugsuak, underwent a full refit courtesy of Verreault Navigation (Groupe Maritime Verreault) in the summer of 2011. However, the official launch will take place in 2013 after we have installed a renewable energy system which will allow us to power various equipment at sea, including monitoring systems to track sharks. Instead of relying on a cheaper gas-powered generator, we have decided to design a wind and solar system to generate auxiliary power.
We also plan to acquire a side scan sonar system that will enable us to locate sharks and to conduct the first ever population survey for this species. We require your help to purchase these costly but essential pieces of equipment.
Please make a donation today and help us study the sharks of the North Atlantic.
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GEERG projects have no commercial applications and are thus not eligible for most types of official funding. We only conduct research projects that focus on science, discovery, education and conservation. The results of all of our work are shared freely with the science community and the public at large.
$30,000 worth of high-tech telemetry tags and receivers have already been secured for our 2011 research season. We are now in the process of acquiring a vessel that will carry the GEERG team to various dive sites as well as enable us to service the receivers that will be moored at various locations and accessible only by boat. Further funding is required to enable us to refit our work boat as well as acquiring an ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) and a side scan sonar. We believe that this expensive equipment is the key to revealing the secret life of the Greenland shark. Only when we know more about its numbers, its feeding behaviour, its mating habits and its overall distribution will we be in a position to determine how and where the Greenland shark is treatened by human activity. Only then will we be in a position to make sound scientific recommendations to ensure the sustainable coexistence of humans and sharks in the St. Lawrence.
Several corporations and institutions have become GEERG affiliates over the years. Their support and generous contributions have enabled us to conduct ground-breaking research on the Greenland shark. However, the scope of our research projects and the immense territory we cover now require the acquisition and use of more expensive equipment and services, and we need your help.
Please contribute to GEERG and help us study the unknown and elusive Greenland shark.
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If you would like to contribute to our cause, please make a PayPal donation below or mail us a cheque at the following address.
Canadian donations are processed by GEERG, a not-for-profit registered Canadian charity (Canada Revenue Agency Registration Number: 834462913RR0001). If you wish to receive a tax credit on your donation, please mail or email us a note and we will issue a tax credit before the end of the year.
U.S. donations are also processed by GEERG. However, U.S. tax receipts are issued by our U.S. affiliate, the Shark Research Institute (SRI) a non-profit 501(c)(3) scientific research organization. Your donation is 100% deductible from your US Federal income taxes. SRI will send you an official charitable tax receipt by email to avoid administrative and mailing costs. This ensures that 100% of your donation will go towards GEERG shark research projects.
GEERG
P.O. Box 483
Drummondville, QC
Canada J2B 6W3
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Please contact us at: info@geerg.ca
CANADA DONATIONS (PAYPAL & CREDIT CARD)
Canadian donations are processed by GEERG, a not-for-profit registered Canadian charity (Canada Revenue Agency Registration Number: 834462913RR0001). If you wish to receive a tax credit on your donation, please mail or email us a note and we will issue a tax credit before the end of the year.
