Rescan Environmental Services Ltd. services

Biological Sciences Services

Freshwater Plus Marine Service

Rescan offers expertise in baseline characterizations and environmental impact studies of the freshwater and marine environment. Data is collected using a wide variety of techniques and equipment that are best suited to the environment and project-specific needs.

Wildlife Plus Wildlife Habitat Service

The wildlife group at Rescan has a broad range of expertise in the biological sciences, including population, community and behavioural ecology, ecophysiology, conservation biology, biometrics, and mathematical modelling of animal populations.

Ecosystems + Vegetation

The vegetation group has a broad range of expertise in the biological sciences, including, ecophysiology, conservation biology, biometrics, and mathematical modelling of plant populations. They have experience working in arctic and sub-arctic tundra biomes, boreal and temperate deciduous forests, coastal and interior wetlands, and tropical-subtropical biomes around the world. Rescan encourages the active participation of local community experts in field studies, as well as in research and monitoring projects. Rescan strives to facilitate the integration of knowledge transfer in all its projects.

Toxicology + Risk Assessment

Rescan provides specialized services in toxicology, human health effects assessment, and ecological risk assessment for mines and industrial developments. Risk assessment is a rapidly evolving approach to evaluating the likelihood of adverse impacts to people or to ecological resources which are exposed to environmental stressors. It provides vital information regarding the significance of potential impacts relative to economic, social, and legal considerations. Rescan’s toxicologists, aquatic ecologists, terrestrial ecologists, environmental chemists, engineers and social scientists integrate their knowledge to conduct risk assessments in BC, Canada, and internationally.

Wetland Ecosystems

The wetland science group at Rescan has expertise in wetland ecosystem classification, mapping, function assessment, as well as hydrological and biological assessments. Rescan’s team has experience working across Canada in Arctic-permafrost systems, in the Prairie Pothole Region, the Maritimes and British Columbia. Rescan encourages the active participation of local community experts in field studies, as well as in research and monitoring projects, and strives to facilitate knowledge transfer in all its projects.