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Tracer Release Experiment (TReX)

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Institution: Dalhousie University, Université du Québec (à Rimouski)

Theme: Environmental change, Human activity

Area of Vulnerability: Coastal communities, Marine ecosystems/living resources, Marine industries

Principal investigator

Cedric Chavanne, Université du Québec (à Rimouski)

Co-Principal investigators

Doug Wallace, Dany Dumont, Steve Plante, Cynthia Bluteau

The Tracer Release Experiment (TReX) is an ambitious field and modelling experiment co-funded by MEOPAR and the Réseau Québec Maritime (RQM).

See the project website here.

RQM/MEOPAR TReX Graduate Students & Postdoc Awards Research Projects

Large eddy simulation of surface layer mixing in the Saint Lawrence Estuary

Tracking of rhodamine dye in a coastal estuary using autonomous and remotely-operated underwater vehicle technology

Surface drift and small-scale dispersion due to Langmuir circulation

Simultaneous Absorption and Fluorescence Using an Inlaid Microfluidic Approach for Tracer Rhodamine Experiments in the Gulf-of-St. Lawrence

Sea spray aerosol production estimated during the tracer release surface experiment

Measuring subsurface dispersion with inexpensive Lagrangian floats

Dispersion à la surface de l’estuaire maritime du Saint-Laurent

Prediction of contaminant dispersion in the Gulf of St. Lawrence via Deep Learning

Estimation of Dispersion Regimes and Simulation of the Observed Dye Spreading from HF Radar Data

Assessment of drift prediction in ocean models using Lagrangian analysis techniques

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