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GEERG staff are based at various academic institutions in Canada. Although studying the Greenland shark and other Canadian elasmobranchs could easily employ several researchers on a full-time basis, no funding exists to sustain our work. GEERG duties are thus seasonal and non-remunerated. GEERG directors may nonetheless be reached throughout the year.

GEERG is a member of CAUS

Jeffrey Gallant

Diving Almanac & Book of Records

DUI

GALLANT, Jeffrey
Director - Atlantic Region
MSc Candidate - Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
info@geerg.ca

Fields of study: Distribution of Somniosus microcephalus; Social and environmental impact of sport diving activities in the presence of sharks; Shark behaviour.

Jeffrey is also Managing Director of the Shark Research Institute (SRI Canada) and Executive-at-Large of the Canadian Association for Underwater Science (CAUS).

Jeffrey started diving with the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets in 1982 at the age of 14. He has led several research and training expeditions around the world. Among other accomplishments, Gallant was trained as an aquanaut in Romania in 1995, he is the former Chief Diver of the Quebec Aquarium, and he spent a few days diving aboard Cousteau's windship Alcyone in 1999.

An award-winning underwater photographer and videographer with Aqualog Underwater Productions, Jeffrey has contributed to several dive publications, books, as well as television and film documentaries on sharks and diving, including Discovery Channel, History Channel, CBC, Radio-Canada, TV5, TVA, TQS, LCN and Télé-Québec.

He is the author of the internationally-acclaimed Diving Almanac and Book of Records and he has been a columnist of Vancouver-based DIVER Magazine since 1997. He was made an Honorary Member of the Diables des mers (Sea Devils) Dive Club in 2007. Gallant lives in Drummondville, Quebec, where he teaches at the local CEGEP (university prep).

 
Chris Harvey-Clark

HARVEY-CLARK, Dr. Chris
Director - Pacific Region
chclark@interchange.ubc.ca

Fields of study: Shark behaviour and anatomy; Distribution of Somniosus microcephalus.

He is the author of over 30 research papers and chapters on veterinary aspects of fish, reptiles and amphibians, and published a marine life guide to Canadian Atlantic waters, Eastern Tidepool and Reef.

He held positions at the University of Alberta, Dalhousie University, and at present is at the University of British Columbia where he is in the Zoology Department.

Active on the Canadian Council on Animal Care, currently is on the boards of the Animal Welfare Foundation of Canada, and the Canadian Farm Animal Care Trust.

His interest in marine conservation led him to a number of television and film credits including Discovery Channel, CBC, BBC, and the National Film Board of Canada as creator, writer, host and Director of underwater photography.

 
Science Team
John Batt

BATT, John
Manager - Aquatron Laboratory
Dalhousie University

Fields of study: Fish conservation and welfare; Shark distribution and behaviour.

John is a marine biologist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is also an award-winning underwater photographer, videographer, and a prolific writer.

He is the manager of the Aquatron Laboratory, a unique research facility which conducts studies on aquaculture, marine fisheries and animal behaviour.


Cyrena Riley

RILEY, Cyrena
PhD Candidate - Université du Québec à Rimouski
cyrenalaremora@yahoo.com

Fields of study: Shark and skate embryology and evolution.

Chair of Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology at the Université du Québec à Rimouski.

 


Michael Stokebury

STOKESBURY, Dr. Michael
Director of Research -
The Ocean Tracking Network
Dalhousie University

Fields of study: Shark tagging and telemetry.

Michael's work involves examining the movement, migration, homing, and behaviour of large pelagic predators as determined through satellite and acoustic tagging and tracking.

  • BOISSINOT, Paul
  • CABANA, Josiane
  • CASTRO, Dr. Jose
  • CHABOT, Dr. Denis
  • CHOROMANSKI, Joe
  • SIMARD, Guylaine
  • SAINT-LOUIS, Dr. Richard
  • WHORISKEY, Dr. Fred G. Jr.

Parc Aquarium du Québec
GREMM
Mote Marine Laboratory
Maurice Lamontagne Institut (DFO)
Ripley Aquariums
Musée du Fjord
Maurice Lamontagne Institut (DFO)
Atlantic Salmon Federation

AMIK
Agence Mamu Innu Kaikusseth
«Ensemble les pêcheurs autochtones»
Aquarium du Québec
GREMM
GREMM
Group for Research and Education on Marine Mammals
REQUMM
REQUMM
Quebec Marine Mammal Emergency Response Network
ROMM
ROMM
Réseau d'observation de mammifères marins
Shark Research Institute
SRI
Shark Research Institute
sponsors
VideoRay VEMCO Acoustic Telemetry
OTS Amphibico
DEEPSEA DUI
Force Fin NP Publicité
  • ROUSSEL, Maude
  • SIMARD, Alain
Links
DORIS / FFESSM
Données d'Observations pour la Reconnaissance et l’Identification de la faune et de la flore Subaquatiques
ROSM
Le réseau des observateurs sous-marins
 
  • LACOURSIÈRE, Jacques
  • MARTIN, R. Aidan
  • MYERS, Dr. Ransom
  • SIMONEAU, Clifford

Friend of GEERG (La Baie, QC)
ReefQuest Centre for Shark Research
Dalhousie University
Silent Diving Systems


 

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