A New Discovery in a Deadly Fight
In 2013, sea stars along the West Coast began to die en masse from a mysterious virus. Scientists called sea star wasting syndrome, as the disease came to be known, one of the greatest die-offs ever recorded. I...
New Light on an Elusive Species
Last week, the journal PLOS ONE published a study on the acoustic calls of narwhals, an elusive Arctic species whose day-to-day life we know very little about. Ocean Wise researcher Valeria Vergara, who spends ...
Wild Killer Whale Adoption Program Marks 25th Anniversary
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...
Support For Our Ocean Protection Agenda
On February 16, 2017, the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, announced a variety of measures supporting the Vancouver Aquarium’s ocean protection agenda. Whi...
Ocean Watch – Howe Sound Edition
Although it shows signs of a remarkable recovery since the last century, when Britannia Mine discharged tailings and metal-laden water into it, Howe Sound remains vulnerable to development, shipping, and fishin...
Whale Spotting: New Mariner’s Guide Aims To Reduce Vessel Impacts
Ship strikes, vessel disturbance, underwater noise, and air pollution are key threats faced by whales, dolphins and porpoises off British Columbia’s coast. In partnership with the Vancouver Fraser Port Authorit...
How “Snot” Samples Help Us Protect Whales
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
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...