Wednesday, June 19, 2013

News


Date Event Description
May,
2006
Dalhousie research magazine - OutFront Dr. Pelot was featured in the May 2006 Dalhousie research magazine - OutFront. (PDF)
January,
2006
MARIS V4.3 Released Please contact marin@dal.ca for more information.
November,
2005
MARIS Training Workshop A training session was held at the CCG Dartmouth base.
July
2005
RBC Risk Centre Dr. Ronald Pelot was appointed the Director of the RBC Centre for Risk Management.
November,
2004
MARISite Release MARISite is a web-based traffic density and traffic proportion viewing tool. The data displayed is derivative of MARIS queries.
September,
2004
MARIN Article MARIN was featured in GEOIDE's 2003/2004 Annual Report
Summer,
2004
Eastern Canada Commercial Recreation Survey and traffic model completed A survey of commercial recreational boat operations, including rentals and pleasure tour companies was completed. Traffic models based on this information were added to MARIS.
June,
2004
Presentations at the 6th annual GEOIDE Conference, Québec Pelot, R.P., Keller, P., Coleman, D. "MARIS: a GIS tool for Maritime Traffic and Incident Analysis"

Pelot, R.P., Keller, P., Bertazzon, S., Gavrilova, M. "Coastal Security and Risk Management using GIS and Spatial Data Analysis"

Wu, Y, Pelot, R.P., Keller, P., Coleman, D. "The relationship between weather factors and maritime incident rates"

Shahrabi, J., Pelot, R.P., Coleman, D., Keller, P. "Statistical Comparison of Temporal Kernel Densities for Fishing Incidents and Activity"

June,
2004
MARIS V2.2.0 beta and Training Canadian Coast Guard training session with beta version of MARIS.
May,
2004
Presentations at the INFORMS/CORS Joint Conference, Banff Pelot, R.P. "Multi-criteria analysis for new lifeboat station location"
Spring,
2004
Boat Show Surveys on Recreational Boating Habits MARIN administered a survey to attendees at 6 boat shows across the country. The main issues dealt with were type of boating, location of boating, frequency of outings, demographics and attitude towards weather information (MARIN Report #2004-13). Collaborators at the University of Victoria involved in the West Coast data collection administered novel spatial queries.
Winter,
2004
Recreational Boating Phone Survey A questionnaire designed by MARIN elicited information on boating habits of a random sample of Canadians (MARIN Report #2004-14)
February,
2004
Invited talk on Coastal Security A presentation on MARIS at the seminar "Trends In Marine Security & Risk Analysis", organized by CCG and Lloyd's Register - Fairplay
April,
2003
CHS Chart Prioritization Project A spatial marine traffic model for targeting hydrographic surveys in collaboration with Canadian Hydrographic Services.
December,
2003
Jamal Shahrabi completed his PhD thesis "Spatial and Temporal Analyses of Maritime Fishing and Shipping Traffic and Incidents"
March 23,
2003
Maritime Safety & Risk Conference The Maritime Safety & Risk Conference, hosted by MARIN at Dalhousie University. Sponsored by the Cook-Rees Memorial Fund and the Canadian Coast Guard.