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    • Weekly Ocean News

      Ocean Wise
      August 20, 2018
      Aquablog, Ocean Wise, Vancouver Aquarium
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    • Trick-or-Trash: Ocean Bridge youth creates national Halloween clean-up initiative

      Ocean Wise
      October 27, 2020

    • Defining waste in fisheries Part 2: post-harvest losses

      Ocean Wise
      October 26, 2020

    • Ocean Wise Statement of Support for Mi’kmaq Fishers

      Ocean Wise
      October 21, 2020

    • Collaboration: The Power of Partnership

      Ocean Wise
      October 19, 2020

    • Des fruits de mer écoresponsable au Québec? OUI!

      Ocean Wise
      October 2, 2020

    • Sustainable Seafood in Quebec? YES!

      Ocean Wise
      October 2, 2020
  • Marine Mammal Rescue
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    • Remembering Elfin

      Vancouver Aquarium
      April 3, 2017
      Marine Mammal Rescue, Vancouver Aquarium
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    • Ocean Wise recognizes top ‘whale reporters’ of 2019

      Ocean Wise
      July 21, 2020

    • Urgent call for help to re-open Marine Mammal Rescue Centre

      Ocean Wise
      June 8, 2020

    • Seal-ed with a kiss: Couples wild about volunteering spend quality time at Vancouver Aquarium’s Marine Mammal Rescue Centre

      Ocean Wise
      February 14, 2020

    • New TV series will feature the work of Ocean Wise Marine Mammal Rescue team

      Ocean Wise
      January 30, 2020

    • ‘Berni’ the tropical sea turtle slowly warms to new MMRC environment

      Ocean Wise
      October 4, 2019

    • Rescued Northern sea otter Tazlina jets in from Alaska

      Ocean Wise
      September 9, 2019
      3
  • Vancouver Aquarium
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    • Catfish at Vancouver Aquarium

      Happy National Catfish Month

      Vancouver Aquarium
      August 26, 2015
      Vancouver Aquarium
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    • From postcards to fish packs: Vancouver Aquarium gives thanks to our amazing community supporters

      Ocean Wise
      October 9, 2020

    • Rescued sea otter and global YouTube star ‘Joey’ featured on new Whitecaps FC facemask in support of Vancouver Aquarium

      Ocean Wise
      October 9, 2020

    • Wondering what people are saying about the Vancouver Aquarium x Whitecaps FC Facemaks?

      Ocean Wise
      October 5, 2020

    • New seaweed hand sanitizer is good for your hands and good for the earth

      Ocean Wise
      September 28, 2020

    • Vancouver Aquarium Transformation

      Sarah Ellam
      August 31, 2020
      1

    • Artists for Ocean Wise – new colouring app in support of Vancouver Aquarium

      Ocean Wise
      July 22, 2020
  • Ocean Wise Seafood
    Random

    • Sustainable Seafood in Quebec? YES!

      Ocean Wise
      October 2, 2020
      Aquablog, Ocean Wise, Ocean Wise Seafood
    Recent

    • Defining waste in fisheries Part 2: post-harvest losses

      Ocean Wise
      October 26, 2020

    • Ocean Wise Statement of Support for Mi’kmaq Fishers

      Ocean Wise
      October 21, 2020

    • Collaboration: The Power of Partnership

      Ocean Wise
      October 19, 2020

    • Des fruits de mer écoresponsable au Québec? OUI!

      Ocean Wise
      October 2, 2020

    • New seaweed hand sanitizer is good for your hands and good for the earth

      Ocean Wise
      September 28, 2020

    • Calgary Co-op is Reeling in Ocean Wise Seafood!

      Ocean Wise
      September 25, 2020
  • Education
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    • Ocean Wise is celebrating ‘World Oceans Day’ for the entire month of June!

      Ocean Wise
      June 3, 2020
      Aquablog, Education, Ocean Wise Seafood, Shoreline Cleanup, Vancouver Aquarium
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    • Where are they now? Catching up with Ocean Bridge alum Aira Sarmiento

      Ocean Wise
      July 24, 2020

    • Artists for Ocean Wise – new colouring app in support of Vancouver Aquarium

      Ocean Wise
      July 22, 2020
    • A mother and her son pose in front of the webcam after discussing their positive experience with Ocean Wise's online learning virtual classes about marine life.

      Mateo’s Deep Dive: An Online Learning Adventure

      Ocean Wise
      May 12, 2020
      1

    • Winnipegger on guard for oceans: Ocean Bridge’s Kirsten Desorcy profiled in Manitoba newspaper

      Ocean Wise
      May 3, 2020

    • Kids at home? Online Oceans Launches just in time to Save Parents (and help the ocean)

      Ocean Wise
      March 30, 2020

    • Ocean Wise’s new “Octobus” provides FREE transportation for schools

      Ocean Wise
      January 1, 2020
  • Arctic
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      It's Sealift Season!

      Eric Solomon
      July 21, 2011
      Arctic Connections
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    • Quiet Oceans: Has the COVID-19 crisis reduced noise in whale habitats?

      Ocean Wise
      April 11, 2020
      2

    • Pilot Program Conducts Ocean Plastics Workshop with Youth from Nunavut’s Pond Inlet

      Ocean Wise
      October 4, 2019

    • Diving in the Arctic Unknown

      Ocean Wise
      August 22, 2018

    • Innovation in the High Arctic

      Ocean Wise
      August 14, 2018

    • Wild Canadian Coastlines 

      Ocean Wise
      June 29, 2018
      1

    • Celebrating Ice Algae on Polar Bear Day

      Ocean Wise
      February 27, 2018
  • Shoreline Cleanup
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    • New Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup video highlights issue of shoreline litter. Register this fall at ShorelineCleanup.ca.

      Startling Video Brings New Meaning to Shoreline Litter

      Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
      September 3, 2013
      Shoreline Cleanup, Videos
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    • Thousands of Canadians Took on the Cleanup Challenge

      Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
      October 14, 2020

    • Join the “Cleanup Across Canada” challenge with #TeamShoreline

      Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
      September 23, 2020

    • Clean Shoreline Communities: municipalities as leaders in the fight against plastic pollution

      Ocean Wise
      July 31, 2020

    • Ocean Wise applauds Government of Canada’s commitment to protect 30% of the world’s ocean by 2030

      Ocean Wise
      July 21, 2020

    • #TeamShoreline needs your help reaching one million citizens by September

      Ocean Wise
      July 13, 2020

    • Ocean Wise is celebrating ‘World Oceans Day’ for the entire month of June!

      Ocean Wise
      June 3, 2020
  • Ocean Wise Research
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    • For the Love of Sea Lions

      Public Relations
      May 1, 2014
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    • Can Whales Mitigate Climate Change? Whales and the Carbon Cycle

      Marine Mammal Research
      September 30, 2020

    • Below the surface: the impacts of COVID-19 on marine mammals

      Ocean Wise
      September 14, 2020

    • Online lecture series honours 25th annual Ocean Award winners

      Ocean Wise
      September 14, 2020

    • One ringed seal claw; Years of data on mercury exposure

      Marine Mammal Research
      August 27, 2020

    • Tracking Contaminants in Killer Whale Habitats

      Sarah Wilson
      August 20, 2020

    • What’s in a name? Studying the calls of wild belugas

      Marine Mammal Research
      August 10, 2020
  • Whale Sightings
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    • Sightings Network Vancouver Aquarium

      Whale Watching on The Whale Trail

      Vancouver Aquarium
      September 1, 2015
      Whale Sightings
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    • The BCCSN Welcomes BC Ferries to the Whale Trail

      Sarah Wilson
      September 10, 2020

    • And the Award for Top Cetacean Reporter Goes To…

      Wild Whales
      July 23, 2020

    • Ocean Wise recognizes top ‘whale reporters’ of 2019

      Ocean Wise
      July 21, 2020

    • Unexpected Urban Whales: City Slicker Cetaceans Sighted During Coronavirus

      Wild Whales
      July 14, 2020

    • A Mother’s Love: Killer Whale Culture

      Marine Mammal Research
      May 8, 2020

    • Quiet Oceans: Has the COVID-19 crisis reduced noise in whale habitats?

      Ocean Wise
      April 11, 2020
      2

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Arctic Research

Arctic Summer: Field Notes from Churchill River Estuary

Vancouver Aquarium
September 20, 2017
Ocean Wise
With only a short window of time to gather data, multiple teams from Ocean Wise spent their summer in the Arctic for ongoing research. Studies included the distribution of microplastics in Arctic waters; taggin...

Arctic August: No Ice

Vancouver Aquarium
August 26, 2016
Arctic Connections, Vancouver Aquarium
By John Nightingale, President & CEO, Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre For the first time in 20 plus years of coming to Canada’s Arctic – we saw no pack ice. We certainly saw grand icebergs, both...

Narwhal Study: Tags Deployed Pt 1

Vancouver Aquarium
August 24, 2016
Arctic Connections, Vancouver Aquarium
By Clint Wright, Vancouver Aquarium executive vice president & chief operating officer The weekend weather was picture perfect, with each spectacular morning sunrise heralding very warm temperatures thro...

Narwhal Study: Back in Tremblay Sound

Vancouver Aquarium
August 18, 2016
Arctic Connections, Vancouver Aquarium
 By Clint Wright, Vancouver Aquarium executive vice president & chief operating officer For the seventh year in a row, I’m spending part of the summer in the Arctic, assisting with Fisheries and Oceans C...

Narwhal Research 2015: Close Whale Encounter

Vancouver Aquarium
August 20, 2015
Arctic Connections
1
It has been another near-perfect morning here with light winds, blue skies and temperatures hovering around zero. It is now 6 a.m. and I have just finished my regular three-hour polar bear watch. When the weath...
Vancouver Aquarium Arctic Research

Vancouver Aquarium Launches Arctic Research with Polar Knowledge Canada

Vancouver Aquarium
August 17, 2015
Arctic Connections, Vancouver Aquarium
This summer, scientists from the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre are heading north to begin innovative Arctic research projects both below and above the ocean’s surface in collaboration with Polar Know...
Vancouver Aquarium Arctic narwhal research

Narwhal Research 2015: First Whale Sightings

Vancouver Aquarium
August 15, 2015
Arctic Connections
We have made it to Starnes Fiord, just east of Grise Fiord, after transporting three truckloads of gear and food on five aluminum boats and two inflatable zodiacs. There was a slight swell, but the sea remained...

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