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Alan R. Emery, the Glossary

Alan R. Emery (born February 1939) is a Canadian marine biologist, museum professional, environmental researcher, documentary writer, and photographer/videographer.^[1]

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Canadian marine biologists
Directors of museums in Canada

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Formerly The Banff Centre) is an arts and culture educational institution in Banff, Alberta.

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Brian Mulroney

Martin Brian Mulroney (March 20, 1939 – February 29, 2024) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993.

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Canadian Museum of Nature

The Canadian Museum of Nature (Musée canadien de la nature; CMN) is a national natural history museum based in Canada's National Capital Region.

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The Chagos Archipelago or Chagos Islands (formerly the Bassas de Chagas, and later the Oil Islands) is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean about 500 kilometres (310 mi) south of the Maldives archipelago.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Damselfish

Damselfish are those within the subfamilies Abudefdufinae, Chrominae, Lepidozyginae, Pomacentrinae, and Stegastinae within the family Pomacentridae.

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Daniel Petrie

Daniel Mannix Petrie (November 26, 1920 – August 22, 2004) was a Canadian film, television, and stage director who worked in Canada, Hollywood, and the United Kingdom; known for directing grounded human dramas often dealing with taboo subject matter.

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Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family.

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Diego Garcia

Diego Garcia is an island of the British Indian Ocean Territory, a disputed overseas territory of the United Kingdom also claimed by Mauritius.

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Dravuni

Dravuni (pronounced) is a volcanic island in the Kadavu Group of islands in Fiji.

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Emery

Emery may refer to.

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Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino; January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades.

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Financial Administration Act

The Financial Administration Act (Loi sur la gestion des finances publiques) is legislation enacted by the Parliament of Canada, governing financial administration of the government, public assets, the estimates process, the Department of Finance, the Treasury Board of Canada and Crown Corporations.

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Florida Museum of Natural History

The Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) is Florida's official state-sponsored and chartered natural history museum.

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Georgian Bay

Georgian Bay (Baie Georgienne) is a large bay of Lake Huron, in the Laurentia bioregion.

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Herpetology

Herpetology (from Greek ἑρπετόν herpetón, meaning "reptile" or "creeping animal") is a branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (gymnophiona)) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians, and tuataras).

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Ichthyology

Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish (Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha).

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Kino Lorber

Kino Lorber is an international film distribution company based in New York City.

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LeBreton Flats

LeBreton Flats (also spelled Lebreton Flats) (Plaines Lebreton) known colloquially as The Flats is a neighbourhood in Somerset Ward in central Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Marine biology

Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms that inhabit the sea.

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McGill University

McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.

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Mila Mulroney

Milica "Mila" Mulroney (Serbian Cyrillic: Милица "Мила" Пивнички; née Pivnički; born July 13, 1953) is the widow of the 18th Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney.

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Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry

The Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry is a government ministry of the Canadian province of Ontario that is responsible for Ontario's provincial parks, forests, fisheries, wildlife, mineral aggregates and the Crown lands and waters that make up 87 per cent of the province.

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National Capital Commission

The National Capital Commission (NCC; Commission de la capitale nationale, CCN) is the Crown corporation responsible for development, urban planning, and conservation in Canada's Capital Region (Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec), including administering most lands and buildings owned by the Government of Canada in the region.

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Pointe-à-Pierre

Pointe-à-Pierre is a town in Trinidad and Tobago.

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Raisa Gorbacheva

Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva (Раи́са Макси́мовна Горбачёва Romanized Raisa Maksimovna Gorbachyova,, Титаренко; 5 January 1932 – 20 September 1999) was a Soviet-Russian activist and philanthropist who was the wife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

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Rosy-scales fairy-wrasse

The rosy-scales fairy-wrasse (Cirrhilabrus rubrisquamis), also known as the red velvet fairy wrasse, is a species of wrasse native to the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean.

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Royal Ontario Museum

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Saint Andrews, New Brunswick

Saint Andrews is a town in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Seiche

A seiche is a standing wave in an enclosed or partially enclosed body of water.

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Sigma Xi

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society (ΣΞ) is a non-profit honor society for scientists and engineers.

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Stegastes

Stegastes is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Pomacentridae.

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Suva

Suva (सुवा) is the capital and largest city of Fiji.

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The Nature of Things

The Nature of Things (also, The Nature of Things with David Suzuki) is a Canadian television series of documentary programs.

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The Neptune Factor

The Neptune Factor, also known as The Neptune Disaster, is a 1973 science fiction film directed by Daniel Petrie, featuring underwater cinematography by Paul Herbermann.

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Tobermory, Ontario

Tobermory is a small community located at the northern tip of the Bruce Peninsula, in the traditional territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation.

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Traditional ecological knowledge

Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) describes indigenous and other traditional knowledge of local resources.

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Trimma

Trimma is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae native to the Indian and Pacific Ocean.

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Trimmatom nanus

Trimmatom nanus, the midget dwarfgoby, is a species of marine goby native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

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University of Miami

The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private research university in Coral Gables, Florida.

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University of the South Pacific

The University of the South Pacific (USP) is a public research university with locations spread throughout a dozen countries in Oceania.

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University of Toronto

The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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Viola R. MacMillan

Violet Rita "Viola" MacMillan (née Huggard; 23 April 1903 – 26 August 1993) was a Canadian mineral prospector and mining financier.

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West Indies

The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago.

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William Pinch

William "Bill" Wallace Pinch (August 15, 1940 – April 1, 2017) was a mineralogist from Rochester, New York.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_R._Emery

Alan R. Emery, the Glossary

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Canadian marine biologists

Directors of museums in Canada

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