A pilot project assessed efficient, repeatable methods for updating urban harbour ecological inventories, providing reliable spatial data to support land use planning, environmental protection, restoration priorities, and long-term monitoring of ecological change.
Archipelago implemented understory kelp salvage and recolonization measures to reduce temporary habitat loss from dredging, supporting faster ecological recovery and maintaining functional kelp habitats critical to local fish productivity.
The Green Shores partnership supports sustainable coastal design through a credit and rating program that provides tools, guidance, and training to reduce environmental impacts and restore coastal ecosystem function, developed collaboratively by Stewardship Centre for BC and Archipelago.
Between 1999 and 2007, Archipelago was involved in identifying marine significant areas (MSAs) throughout British Columbia. A framework concept was identified from which Archipelago could develop a planning and decision support tool to assist in the identification and mapping of MSAs.
From 2007 to 2008, Archipelago provided key input on the design and implementation for shoreline rehabilitation on the Dockside Green development, and the adjacent Point Ellice Park waterfront.
Archipelago examined the unique challenges involved in providing an effective oil spill response within BC’s coastal and estuarine wetlands.
Although the risk of oil spills impacting British Columbia’s coastal marshes has been increasing (due in part to increased marine traffic), the assessment of oil spill impacts and treatment options for British Columbia’s coastal wetlands has largely been based upon knowledge of oil spills in wetlands outside of BC.
As part of an initiative to build Canada’s first offshore wind project, NaiKun Wind Energy Group—a British Columbia-based renewable energy company—engaged Archipelago to perform a marine environmental assessment of the region.
In 2014, Archipelago provided an environmental assessment for the marine component of a proposed natural gas transmission system planned for the northwest coast of British Columbia.
When preparing to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility at Bish Cove, near Kitimat, British Columbia, Chevron Canada and Apache Canada initiated a Biodiversity Monitoring and Assessment Program (BMAP) to gather information about the status and trends of habitats, ecosystems and species at that location before, during and after construction.
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