Experience

The Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq

• Canada
• Strategic Management Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manager of Ocean Sciences

  • May 2017 - Present



LGL Limited

• Canada
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Marine Biologist

  • Jun 2007 - Dec 2016

  Since joining LGL, Joseph has acquired experience writing Environmental Assessments (EAs) for oil and gas exploration and production projects in Atlantic Canada, including EAs for offshore Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, and in the U.S. and Canadian Arctic. Joseph has also been involved in numerous monitoring studies designed to assess the effects of industry noise on marine mammals. This involved serving as a MMO and crew leader during vessel-based seismic surveys in the Beaufort Sea (U.S. and Canadian), Chukchi Sea, NW Pacific Ocean (Shatsky Rise, ~1600 km east of Japan), South China Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and near the Endeavor Marine Protected Area off of British Columbia in the NE Pacific Ocean. Joseph has served as an MMO during seven seismic cruises off Newfoundland during 2010-2015. During those surveys, he implemented mitigation measures as described under the Statement of Canadian Practice. In 2015, Mr. Beland was involved in a shore-based survey from Cape Race, NL, which tested the ability of a thermal imaging to detect whale blows. Another aspect of this work involved training Inuit and Inupiat observers, as well as Marine Species Observers to become marine mammal monitors on board seismic vessels. Joseph has been the co-author of several of the seismic monitoring reports for these projects.



Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

• United States
• Research
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Marine Mammal Observer

  • Apr 2004 - Aug 2005

  Served as a marine mammal observer aboard a geophysical research vessel during seismic surveys in the North Pacific, Bering Sea, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Eastern Tropical Pacific. Served as a marine mammal observer aboard a geophysical research vessel during seismic surveys in the North Pacific, Bering Sea, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Eastern Tropical Pacific.



University of New Hampshire

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Fishery Scientist

  • Jun 2003 - Sep 2003

  Conducted field research to test the effectiveness of two shallow gillnets with fewer number of meshes in reducing Atlantic cod by-catch in the Gulf of Maine. This research involved collecting species and size data for fish and other marine life caught in the nets. Helped construct a database and perform data analyses to determine if the shallower gillnets had better species and size selectivity than either regular groundfish gillnets or tie-down gillnets, which were also used in the research project.