Canadian Air and Precipitation Monitoring Network – Egbert

Objective

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) requires a Contractor for daily technical support (7 days per week, 52 weeks per year) at the Canadian Air and Precipitation Monitoring Program (CAPMoN) Egbert site located approximately 12 km northeast of Alliston, Ontario with coordinates N 44.234056° latitude, W 79.791722° longitude. This monitoring site is located at the Centre for Atmospheric Research Experiments and consists of two separate areas approximately 1 km apart. One location is dedicated to precipitation sampling and the other to atmospheric gases and particle measurements.

Background

ECCC operates an environmental research and monitoring station in the area which forms part of ECCC’s national network of CAPMoN stations. The primary focus of this monitoring station is the daily collection of precipitation and/or air samples. Environmental data is collected from both automatic and manual samplers. A contract operator is required to attend to the station to retrieve and process the samples according to the CAPMoN Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's). The samples are then packaged and shipped for analysis to the CAPMoN National Laboratory located in Toronto, Ontario. Other daily duties include reading and recording of various gauges, diagnostics, and regular servicing, troubleshooting, and minor repair of a variety of monitoring equipment. On-site training will be provided by ECCC technical staff.

Details of Work to be Performed

All sampling, shipping, and maintenance must be performed in accordance with the Site Operations Reference Manuals; and in accordance with any amendments to the aforementioned manuals. The routine may involve additional collectors, passive samplers and various climatological and meteorological instruments. ECCC will provide the Contractor the aforementioned manuals and amendments.