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We support research projects requiring the following laboratory analyses:
Isotope Analysis (CNO), PBDE, PCB, PCDD(F),DBP, T&O, caffeine, PPCP, bacterial source tracking, and water quality analysis
Contact us for more information.
 Environmentally
sustainable water quality and aquatic
resources are critical to the health
and well being of global communities. Globally, the
aquatic ecosystems providing freshwater and fisheries
resources are subject to variable degrees of natural and
anthropogenic stresses linked to land-use, water-use,
modification of hydrologic and biogeochemical regimes,
loading of chemicals and pathogens and alteration of
foodwebs. Understanding and modeling the abilities and
limits of aquatic ecosystems to sustain clean and
healthy water and fisheries resources under continuous
human interventions and changing climate are central
issues to society and a challenge for ecologists and
environmental scientists.
Our goal at the
Water
and Aquatic Sciences Research Program at UVic is to provide opportunities for inter-disciplinary
research, training and technology development in the
areas of water and watershed management, nutrient-foodweb
ecology, and contaminant transport in aquatic foodwebs.
Our collaboration and partnership with many academics,
industries, government institutions and NGOs in Canada
and abroad provide an excellent environment for
inter-disciplinary fundamental research and their
application to resource management, management of
environmental and public health, and policy development.
The environmental management of drinking water,
funded through the NSERC-Industry Research Chair program
is a major area of research, training and knowledge
transfer. This is a partnership and community-based
research program with funding from NSERC, water
utilities, industries, government departments and local
communities. The major objective of this
Water,
Waste-water and Community Health Research
is to develop models, techniques and tools linking
ecosystem and watershed processes with the quality of
water in the source environment and its links with the
quality of water at consumers’ tap and community
health.
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The
second major research is on the nutrient-foodweb of juvenile salmon in
freshwater and marine ecosystems. Our current projects include nutrient-foodweb
ecology of sockeye lake systems in BC and Alaska, and continental-scale
nutrient-foodweb and resource ecology of juvenile Pacific salmon along the
coastal ecosystems of Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to northern Alaska ((Nutrient Food-web Ecology)).
The
third major research focus is on the dynamics and mobilization of
organochlorine compounds and mercury in the foodwebs freshwater and marine
ecosystems. Current projects include the impacts of selective sport fishing
on foodweb dynamics and Hg accumulation in lake trout in Ontario lakes,
patterns of Hg accumulation in sport fishes of coastal BC lakes, patterns of
metal accumulation in ocean rockfish, and on the impacts of fish farm wastes
on contaminants in traditional seafoods of aboriginal communities(Contaminants and Food Safety)).
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