Ocean Wise

Five Tips for Cleaning Remote Shorelines

November 15, 2017

Aquablog, Shoreline Cleanup, Vancouver Aquarium

When the Hanjin Shipping container spilled in British Columbia’s Juan De Fuca Strait in November 2016, many remote shorelines were affected. Surfrider Pacific Rim, the Vancouver Island chapter of an internation...

Riding the Kelp Highway

Ocean Wise

November 10, 2017

Aquablog, Ocean Wise, Vancouver Aquarium

No one knows exactly how people first came to the Americas, but the archaeologist Jon Erlandson thinks that kelp helped them do it. Kelp covers much of the Pacific Rim coastline, supporting a vast ecosystem ...

Not a Typical Day at the Office

Ocean Wise

November 8, 2017

Aquablog, Shoreline Cleanup

There's a cure for having “a case of the Mondays” and all you need to do is visit a local shoreline to find it. During Corporate Cleanup Month this past fall, nearly 200 workplace champions led cleanups that fo...

Diving Arctic Waters

Ocean Wise

November 2, 2017

Aquablog, Arctic Connections, Ocean Wise

This past August, four Ocean Wise divers motored to a remote Arctic islet to conduct a BioBlitz survey. A BioBlitz is a snapshot of Canada’s biodiversity, recorded by scientists and citizen scientists, to mark ...

Wild Killer Whale Adoption Program Marks 25th Anniversary

Ocean Wise

October 26, 2017

Ocean Wise, Research Site - CORI, Whale Sightings

Since 1992, the Wild Killer Whale Adoption Program has supported ground-breaking research by the Marine Mammal Research Program at the Coastal Ocean Research Institute, an Ocean Wise initiative. In the past, th...

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