Completed Projects:

2WE Associates has successfully completed projects for a wide range of clients. This partial listing of past and current projects may include some that are similar to your needs.

Reviewing and Strengthening Scientific Organisations: Executive management support. Client: Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility. Options for an intergovernmental mechanism and process for the Global Climate Change Observing System (GCOS) - Client: Environment Canada. Review of science communications internally and with clients. Client: Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Preparation of a report on ocean and atmospheric related polar observations - Clients: The World Meteorological Organization and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. Revisions to the Rules of Procedure, following adopted amendments to the Statutes of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO - Client: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission.

Project Design and Planning: Preliminary assessment of market opportunities, conceptual applications and sensors for a new oceanographic platform. Client: ASA Applied Science Associates. Project NEPTUNE: Facilitiation of the Canadian science plan for an international ocean observatory network - Client: Institute for Pacific Ocean Science and Technology.

Environmental Data Review: Review of environmental data and recommendations for effects monitoring at a deep-sea outfall for primary treated municipal wastewater. Client: Greater Vancouver Regional District.

Understanding Technical Complexity in the Marine Environment and Coastal Zone: A national review of activities and needs in climate change impacts and adaptation science - Client: Fisheries and Oceans Canada. A national review of climate change modelling needs - Client: Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Indicators of marine ecosystem health in the Georgia Basin - Client: Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

Helping to Get Government Approvals: Metal contamination issues associated with a development site. Client: Greystone Properties. Benthic community analysis for a contaminated creek site - Client: Franz Environmental Inc.

Explaining Scientific and Technical Issues: A list of 365 simple facts about the ocean, for the International Year of the Ocean. Client: Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Five speeches on the New Directions Initiative. Client: Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Strengthening the Pacific Chapter of a report on the National Programme of Action for the Control of Land-Based Sources of Marine Pollution. Client: Environment Canada.

Getting Advice through Workshops: Recommendations for evaluating the effects of fishing activities on seabirds off the BC coast. Client: Canadian Wildlife Service. Two public forums to obtain public input on the Race Rocks Pilot Marine Protected Area - Client: Fisheries and Oceans. Canada. 2WE Associates also provided the Program Chairman and website design for Coastal Zone Canada '98, an international conference.

Developing Funding Proposals: Preparation of a loan application and business plan. Client: Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility. Completion and revision of a funding proposal. Client: Canadian Ocean Frontiers Research Initiative Foundation.

Creating Metadata and Evaluating Data Quality: A metadata catalogue of research and monitoring activities within a node of the Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network - Client: Environment Canada.

Conduct Research: The effects of bleached kraft mill effluent on the growth of naturally settled mussels - Clients: Environment Canada and the National Research Council. The effects of organotin compounds on coastal BC shellfish - Client: Fisheries and Oceans Canada.