Atlantic Reference Centre

Tourism Region: St. Andrews-By-The-Sea; St. Croix

The ARC is a natural history museum of Canadian Atlantic fauna, a biodiversity centre, a systematics laboratory, and a provider of scientific service (offering sample processing and specimen identification, training and teaching, scientific advice, and technical literature.

About the Collections

The ARC is a natural history museum representing the aquatic biota of Atlantic Canada
- Arctic to Cape Cod
- marine, estuarine and freshwater biota
- major components include marine algae, marine invertebrates, aquatic insect larvae, marine fish parasites, marine fishes, fish eggs and larvae (the largest such collection in North America), and deep-sea fishes
- ca. 34,000 catalogued lots, and ca. 190,000 uncatalogued lots
- collections are used for reference, research, biodiversity baseline studies, environmental monitoring, teaching, and display
- specimens are available to visiting researchers or on a loan basis

Approximate number of objects in the collections: 215,000

Archives

Electronic Records

Natural Sciences

The ARC is a natural history museum representing the aquatic biota of Atlantic Canada
- Arctic to Cape Cod
- marine, estuarine and freshwater biota
- major components include marine algae, marine invertebrates, aquatic insect larvae, marine fish parasites, marine fishes, fish eggs and larvae (the largest such collection in North America), and deep-sea fishes
- ca. 34,000 catalogued lots, and ca. 190,000 uncatalogued lots
- collections are used for reference, research, biodiversity baseline studies, environmental monitoring, teaching, and display
- specimens are available to visiting researchers or on a loan basis

Plants and Animals (Biological Collections)
Endangered Species • Parasites • Scientific Specimens : Type Specimens • Aquatic Organisms : Marine : Fresh Water • Botany : Vascular Plants • Zoology : Invertebrates : Mollusks (Mollusca) : Worms (Annelida) : Crustaceans (Crustacea) : Jellyfish, corals or sea anemones (Cnidaria) : Flatworms (Platyhelminthes) : Roundworms (Nematoda) : Starfish (Echinodermata) : Insects (Insecta) : Sponges (Porifera) : Vertebrates : Fish (Pisces)
Other Invertebrates: minor phyla

Services & Activities

- specimens for scientific research and education, available to visiting researchers or on a loan basis
- specimen identification and processing of specimen samples
- courses, workshops, lectures, specimen identification training
- scientific advice and information
- technical literature

Research Services

- specimens for research and education (visit or loan)
- lab space and equipment
- species/biodiversity information
- specimen identification
- taxonomic training and teaching
- scientific advice and information

Archival Records • Information Centre • Laboratory • Library • Object or Scientific specimen identification

Educational Programs

- taxonomic training (by arrangement)
- marine science courses (through parent Huntsman Marine Science Centre and Bamfield Marine Station
- lectures and laboratory demonstrations for Huntsman and visiting university courses
- externally funded internships

Classes or Workshops • Demonstrations • Internships • Lectures • Professional Development

Visitor Services

- tours for visiting students, etc. by arrangement
- laboratory space and equipment for visiting researchers

Guided Tours • Parking Facilities : Free • Special Needs Facilities : Parking : Signs : Washrooms : Wheelchair access

Internet Services

General Information • Collections • Other Internet Services

Publications and Products

- ARC Species ID Leaflet series
- ARC Information Leaflet series
- contributions to Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci.
- primary publications
- virtual display of multimedia content (grant funded)
- project reports

Scholarly Papers

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Location

Address:	1 Lower Campus Road St. Andrews, New Brunswick E5B 2L7 See Map
Telephone:	506-529-1203
Fax:	506-529-1212
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