What Counts as “Arctic?”
I’m in a village called Salluit, in a region of northern Quebec called Nunavik, on the edge of the Hudson Strait. It’s -24 C. There’s snow on the ground. The ocean is frozen. I’m just south of the Arctic Circle...
Protecting the Arctic “Doughnut Hole” from Commercial Fishing
It’s not every day that we have reason to celebrate good news about the ocean, but this week, we do. A new international fishing agreement protecting the Arctic high seas is a game-changer for marine life and t...
Changing Climate and Culture
“We call it ‘nuna,’” says Mia Otokiak, gesturing to the ground covered in inch-high willow and moss. Nuna means “land” in Inuinnaqtun, and yet it means so much more in Inuit communities across Canada’s North. T...
Diving Arctic Waters
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 ...
Arctic Inspiration Prize Allows Ikaarvik to Expand
In 2013, we were honoured to become a Laureate of the Arctic Inspiration Prize for a program called Ikaarvik: Barriers to Bridges. The Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre leads Ikaarvik, a program that wor...
We All Agree: We Need Our North
The Arctic is in the grip of unprecedented change and is warming at twice the rate of any other region in world.
Fundamental threats such as man-made pollutants contaminating the marine food web and climate ...
Arctic Diving: Photo Highlights
By Jeremy Heywood, Vancouver Aquarium diving safety officer
Saying farewell to Cambridge Bay did not mean the end of the work for the 2016 Nearshore Ecology Team. Upon our return to Vancouver we had stacks o...
Arctic Diving: Farewell Cambridge Bay
By Jeremy Heywood, Vancouver Aquarium diving safety officer
Right on schedule, our colleagues John Nightingale and Eric Solomon, who had been travelling on the One Ocean Expeditions vessel Akademik Sergey Va...