GSC Atlantic partnerships facilitate sharing of expertise and resources for project delivery in response to our clients' needs for marine geoscience information and knowledge. Joint ventures include projects with:

• other divisions of the Geological Survey of Canada
• universities and research institutes in Canada and abroad
• other federal government departments
• provincial government agencies
• international agencies
• resource and environmental industries
• engineering and technology companies

GSC Atlantic's research contributes to a wide variety of marine geoscience issues through new and archived data, state-of-the-art concepts and practices, and technology development.

The Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic) Developing Roles

GSC Atlantic's roles arise from changes in the goals of government - sponsored research towards:

• a focus of research in the solution of resource and environmental problems
• an increase of joint ventures with industry for project delivery and technology development, under cost-shared arrangements
• an expanding international role in the provision of marine geoscience expertise
• the initiation of multi-institutional/multi-disciplinary, cost-shared research projects

See also :

• Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)