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Research and test centre
Vancouver, British Columbia
What they offer: Marine traffic research and risk analysis
Clear Seas is a Canadian not-for-profit research organization focused on the human, environmental and economic effects of marine shipping. It produces public research, convenes government, industry and community perspectives, and develops Indigenous research and maritime capacity programs. Its work gives decision-makers evidence for shipping policy and planning.
Last reviewed Sep 5, 2026
Decision snapshot
Clear Seas is a useful research and convening entry point for teams assessing navigation risk, port-system resilience or the effects of ship noise. Its value lies in connecting traffic analysis, university research and community priorities. Engage around a defined planning or research question, with access to datasets and the maturity of proposed tools clarified before treating them as implementation-ready.
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Clear Seas research on future remote pilotage and vessel-traffic management may inform monitoring-system design and governance. This is an indirect research contribution, not an operational autonomous-patrol capability.
Organization context
Clear Seas combines publicly accessible studies with collaborative research and community engagement. Its Pilotage Technology Phase II initiative brings Dalhousie and UQAC researchers into work on remote pilotage, traffic management, simulation, deployment rules, human factors and economic trade-offs. These are research and design activities: a conversation should establish which outputs can inform a specific navigation decision and who controls implementation.
Clear Seas publishes its office at 1005–355 Burrard Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its mandate addresses Canadian marine shipping, with research and knowledge-sharing work involving coastal communities and national public and industry audiences. The mapped Vancouver location remains a city centroid.
Recent activity
Dated Jun 26, 2026
On June 26, 2026, Clear Seas published its study of commercial anchorage use in the Canadian Salish Sea. It analyzes Pacific Pilotage Authority vessel movements from 2016–2025, providing a new basis for discussing anchorage management and supply-chain pressures.
Source: Anchorage Use in the Canadian Waters of the Salish Sea (opens in a new tab)Reviewed assessment
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Contributing capability
Marine risk and traffic analytics
Clear Seas research on future remote pilotage and vessel-traffic management may inform monitoring-system design and governance. This is an indirect research contribution, not an operational autonomous-patrol capability.
Evidence strength: Needs ReviewCapability last reviewed Sep 5, 2026
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Marine traffic research and risk analysis
What it enables
Clear Seas produces public marine-traffic research, including a study of 71 commercial anchorages using 2016–2025 vessel-movement records. The analysis connects anchorage use to commodities and transport-system disruption and provides evidence for marine planning.
Public record
Dated participation, delivery roles, partnerships, and disclosed funding provide the operating context behind the profile.
Government contribution agreement
$150,000
Transport Canada discloses contribution agreement 164385 for MELO under the Quiet Vessel Initiative: CAD 150,000 covering May 2, 2022 to March 31, 2025. This is the agreement value, not a statement that the full amount was disbursed or that a commercial system was delivered.
Geography
The map is centred on Vancouver. It does not imply a street address or exact facility location.
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Public sources
12
Last reviewed
Sep 5, 2026
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Evidence strength: ModerateLast reviewed Sep 5, 2026
Operating context
Maturity
Published research; implementation decisions remain with the responsible operators and authorities.
Availability
Public report available; no live traffic-monitoring service is established by this research.
Decision-useful features
Documented applications. Anchorage management and port-system planning
Source type. official organization profile
Supports. Profile · canadian footprint · Profile · description · Profile · profileData.publicContact.publicEmail · Profile · profileData.publicContact.contactPageUrl · Profile · editorial profile version
Clear Seas publishes a Vancouver office at 1005–355 Burrard Street and describes a Canadian marine-shipping research mandate.
MEOPAR · Mar 19, 2026
Source type. innovation program
Supports. Profile · profileData.institutionalRelationship · Profile · executive relevance summary
MEOPAR names Clear Seas SOC-I among its 2026 seed-fund recipients and describes research co-design with Naut’sa mawt Tribal Council and ten member Nations.
Clear Seas / Smythe LLP
Source type. official report
Supports. Profile · disclosed financing summary
Clear Seas audited fiscal 2025 statements report CAD 1,605,044 revenue, CAD 2,113,040 expenditure, a CAD 507,996 deficit and CAD 1,454,031 year-end net assets.
Clear Seas · Jun 26, 2026
Source type. official report
Supports. Profile · current activity as of · Profile · current activity
Clear Seas dates the anchorage report June 26, 2026; the HTML datePublished is 2026-06-26T14:37:23-07:00.
Clear Seas
Source type. official report
Supports. Profile · profileData.testbedPlatforms
The MELO 2024 report records modelling and acoustic data collection but assigns further validation to electric-tug and CCGS Sir John Franklin datasets.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Source type. official report
Supports. Profile · profileData.portfolioScope · Profile · organization categories · Profile · profileData.evidenceBoundary
Fisheries and Oceans Canada's contribution record identifies Clear Seas as a Vancouver not-for-profit organization, corroborating the entity-kind conflict in the published dossier.
Clear Seas
Source type. official report
Supports. Profile · executive relevance summary · Profile · operating context · Marine risk and traffic analytics → Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
TNM assessment: the documented remote-pilotage research and risk-analysis workstreams make Clear Seas relevant to navigation-planning conversations; the source describes research, not an implemented navigation service.
Clear Seas
Source type. official report
Supports. Profile · profileData.technicalMandate · Profile · entity kind
Clear Seas' annual report identifies the Clear Seas Centre for Responsible Marine Shipping Society as an independent Canadian not-for-profit research organization.
Clear Seas
Source type. official report
Supports. Profile · profileData.institutionalRelationship
Clear Seas describes a MELO research partnership with UBC engineers and marine-mammal researchers.
Clear Seas
Source type. official report
Supports. Profile · profileData.technicalMandate · Marine risk and traffic analytics · commercial availability · Marine risk and traffic analytics · technical tags · Marine risk and traffic analytics · technicaldomainslugs · Marine risk and traffic analytics · maturity · Marine risk and traffic analytics · defence applications · Marine risk and traffic analytics · core features · Marine risk and traffic analytics · capability type · Marine risk and traffic analytics · summary · Marine risk and traffic analytics · name
The Salish Sea report examines 71 anchorages using vessel movements and relates waiting patterns to commodity flows and supply-chain disruption.
Clear Seas Research
Source type. official company product
Supports. Profile · description · Marine risk and traffic analytics · summary
The official company material describes Clear Seas Research as a Canadian technology business with the public offering summarized in this candidate.
Transport Canada
Source type. innovation program
Supports. Government contribution agreement funding event
Transport Canada records MELO agreement 164385 at a value of 150000.00 Canadian dollars.
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