Ocean, Coastal and River Engineering Research Centre

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Why work with us

With over 90 experts and unique facilities, we conduct rigorous testing to transform ground-breaking concepts into tangible outcomes, and find practical and sustainable solutions to complex problems. We specialize in identifying, adapting, and integrating advanced solutions to improve the performance and safety of marine operations, meet the challenges of climate change, and protect infrastructure, property and people from severe weather events and other environmental risks.

Our experts can support your projects in these 4 priority research and development areas:

Secure Canada

Providing novel technologies and evidence-based insights to Canada's defence research and development community, to help the Royal Canadian Navy be ready to accomplish its mission.

Safe operations

Developing tools for optimizing the performance of ships, vessels and related equipment to advance sustainable, safe and efficient operations in harsh and changing marine environments.

Resilient shores

Developing climate adaptation solutions to mitigate the impacts of weather extremes and other environmental factors on shorelines and related infrastructure. Our ocean, coastal and river engineering researchers are leaders in nature-based solutions in Canada and have authored national guidelines for implementing these solutions to prevent flooding and other coastal erosion.