Ocean Disposal

 
As a senior environmental design biologist with Canada's Environmental Protection Service, Western & Northern Region (1976-1978), Lee Harding provided biological input to Arctic ocean disposal permits.  Later, as Manager of the environmental assessment group in the Northwest Territories District Office of Environment Canada (1978-1980), he moved this responsibility to the Yellowknife office and set up and managed the Arctic Regional Ocean Dumping Advisory Committee.  As Manager of Marine Programs for Environment Canada's Pacific region (1980-1994), he supervised the ocean disposal section, guided its biological assessment and administrative functions and participated in national program management.

More recently (1998-2007), SciWrite Environmental Sciences Ltd. developed a number of text and hypertext-based (for delivery via Internet and distribution by CD-ROM) training manuals and developed the official website for the Office for the London Dumping Convention (International Maritime Organization, London, UK) and advised Environment Canada and Fisheries and Oceans Canada on ocean disposal issues.