details
- Name
- National Research Council Canada, Institute for National Measurement Standards (NRC-CNRC)
- Address
- 1200 Montreal Road
- Zipcode
- K1A 0R6
- City
- Ottowa
- State
- Ontario
- Country
- Canada
- Phone
- +1 613 998 7018
- Fax
- +1 613 952 1473
- inms.info@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
- Centre Website
- https://nrc.canada.ca/en/corporate/planning-reporting/evaluation-nrc-measurement-science-standards
organisation profile
- The Institute for National Measurement Standards (INMS) is Canada's national metrology institute responsible for evaluation of standards and methods of measurement. It was established in 1985 and is sometimes referred to as "National Metrology Institute" (Canada).
The "Measurement Science and Standards" is a portfolio within the Canadian National Resarch Council's (NRC) Emerging Technologies executive office. It has two locations in Ottawa and one in Edmonton.
History
The NRC was established in 1916, replacing the Honorary Advisory Council on Scientific and Industrial Research, and began research in 1925. A member of the Canadian Joint Committee on Oceanography (CJCO) since the latter's inception (1939), it took part in marine temperature observations (bathyhermographs) with the Fisheries Research Board and Royal Canadian Navy, under an organisation known as the Naval Research Establishment from 1944 to 1945. Some of these activities continued under the newly formed Department of Research Board (today's Defence Research and Development Canada) in 1947, after the NRC returned to civilian research. The NRC remained involved in the development of bathythermograph card processors in the 1960s, and remained a member of the Canadian Committee on Oceanography until the latter's end.
edmo metadata
- EDMO record id
- 3426
- Collating centre
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS)
- Latest update
- 25 September 2015 5:59:32 PM