2022 Field Work Highlights

2022 Field Work Highlights

2022 was quite the busy year for PRIMED’s field measurement program! We started out the field season in February with a trip to Yuquot to attempt to recover our MarineLabs CoastScout buoy. In the peak of herring spawn, we were greeted by 100+ bald eagles and a pod of...
PRIMED’s trip to (unusually sunny) Haida Gwaii!

PRIMED’s trip to (unusually sunny) Haida Gwaii!

  In the last week of March, 2022, PRIMED staff members Ben, Riley, and Chloe, plus grad student Aidan McKenna, travelled to Haida Gwaii to deploy an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) to collect tidal current data in Masset Inlet. They met up with fellow...
PRIMED 2021 Wrap-up

PRIMED 2021 Wrap-up

Riley Richardson   It’s been an exciting and busy 2021 for the PRIMED team. As we approach the end of the year and the beginning of 2022, we wanted to look back and summarize some of our work over the past year. We embarked on a front-end engineering and design...

Welcome to PRIMED, Sam!

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) is currently developing a Marine Energy Resource Atlas for Canada. The goal of this cloud-hosted computer application is to support technical assessment of marine energy resources (waves, tidal currents, river flows). This...