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The Coastal Ocean Research Institute, an Ocean Wise initiative, is an independent, multidisciplinary, collaboration-based, institute to fill a major gap in understanding and managing our coastal ocean environments.

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How “Snot” Samples Help Us Protect Whales

Vancouver Aquarium

December 5, 2016

Research Site - CORI

Humpback whale "snot" samples gathered by Vancouver Aquarium and NOAA researchers are helping to protect whales in the wild. Humpback whales can be identified at the surface of the ocean by their bushy, two-...

Support for Our Healthy Oceans Agenda

Vancouver Aquarium

November 9, 2016

Research Site - CORI, Vancouver Aquarium

These are tough times for our planet. In just 10,000 years, we humans have multiplied exponentially, growing from a population of one million to more than seven billion in a geological blink of an eye. By th...

Unravelling the Mystery of Endangered Beluga Whales

Vancouver Aquarium

September 8, 2016

Research Site - CORI

By Dr. Valeria Vergara, Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre research scientist “The adults left the calf absolutely alone,” narrated Mathilde Michaud, our drone operator, onboard the research vessel the...

Will Banning The Microbead Protect Ocean Life?

Vancouver Aquarium

July 8, 2016

Research Site - CORI

Last week, the federal government followed through on a unanimous 2015 House of Commons motion to ban plastics from personal care products and plastic microbeads have been listed as a toxic substance under the ...

Earth Day: A Reminder Ocean Pollution is Everybody’s Business

Vancouver Aquarium

April 22, 2016

Research Site - CORI

Can mud samples help us protect killer whales from marine pollution? This is what an important new project developed by the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre’s Coastal Ocean Research Institute aims to ac...

DNA Never Lies

Vancouver Aquarium

April 13, 2016

Research Initiative - Conservation Genetics, Research Site - CORI, Vancouver Aquarium

When a dead killer whale washes up on a beach in British Columbia, the first thing we try to determine — along with why it died in the first place — is who it is. Almost all killer whales that spend time in B.C...

Happy Anniversary to the Annapolis!

Vancouver Aquarium

April 12, 2016

Research Site - CORI

One year ago, an old military ship got a new lease on life when it was sent to the ocean floor in Howe Sound. On April 4, 2015, the Artificial Reef Society of B.C. used a series of controlled detonations to ...

Sea Lice Research a First in British Columbia

Vancouver Aquarium

April 8, 2016

Research Site - CORI, Vancouver Aquarium

If it’s working well in Norway, maybe it will work well here. That’s what Dr. Shannon Balfry thinks about using “cleaner” fish to control the issue of sea lice at salmon farms off our coast. The head of fish pr...