PO Box 115
23 Westwood Avenue
War Memorial House
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
CANADA B4P 2R6

Honorary Research Associates

Donald C. Gordon, Jr., Ph.D.

Habitat Ecology Section
Marine Environmental Sciences Division
Department of Fisheries and Oceans
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Canada B2Y 4A2

Phone: (902) 426-2798
Fax: (902) 426-2256
E-mail: gordond@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca

Research interests:

  • Effects of benthic organisms on marine sediments
  • Determination, distribution, composition, and cycling of organic matter in seawater and sediment
  • Analysis of hydrocarbons in seawater and sediment
  • Marine oil pollution and its ecological effects
  • Ecology of macrotidal, turbid estuaries
  • Salt marsh production and export
  • Environmental impact assessment
  • Ecosystem modelling
  • Lake management
  • Fate and effects of particulate drilling wastes
  • Effects of physical disturbance on benthic habitat and communities
  • Benthic habitat mapping