An optional post-conference scientific field trip is available to the Aquatron Laboratory at Dalhousie University’s main campus. The Aquatron is the largest university aquatic research facility in Canada, and considered by many to be one of the best in the world.

The tour will include the large mesocosm tanks where shellfish and finfish research is being done, as well as wet labs, and the work viewed during the tour will depend upon what is being undertaken that day.

Participants will also have the opportunity to see sampling plates that have species collected from a Fisheries and Oceans Canada monitoring site, plus see 3-D printed models of AIS as well as species in resin blocks.

Due to space limitations in the Aquatron, there will be two separate tours with 14 people per tour.

Group #1

13:15 Depart Halifax Convention Centre by van for Dalhousie University

13:30-14:30 Tour of the Aquatron Laboratory

14:30 Depart Dalhousie for the Halifax Convention Centre

14:45 Arrive Halifax Convention Centre

Group #2

15:00 Depart Halifax Convention Centre by van for Dalhousie University

15:15-16:15 Tour of the Aquatron Laboratory

16:15 Depart Dalhousie for the Halifax Convention Centre

16:30 Arrive Halifax Convention Centre

Cost - $25.00 plus HST to cover the round-trip transportation.

Please direct any questions to icais@invasivespeciescentre.ca

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