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    • Riding the Kelp Highway

      Ocean Wise
      November 10, 2017
      Aquablog, Ocean Wise, Vancouver Aquarium
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    • Le Soleil du Sud: La Pachamama et les pétoncles Ocean Wise

      Ocean Wise
      January 20, 2020

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      Ocean Wise
      January 19, 2020

    • Keep Calm and Poke On

      Ocean Wise
      January 17, 2020

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      Ocean Wise
      December 6, 2019

    • Foraging the Ocean: Hand-harvesting Delicacies

      Ocean Wise
      November 8, 2019

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      Ocean Wise
      November 5, 2019
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      Sea Lion Rescue Extends to At-Risk Stellers

      Vancouver Aquarium
      January 27, 2015
      Marine Mammal Rescue
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    • ‘Berni’ the tropical sea turtle slowly warms to new MMRC environment

      Ocean Wise
      October 4, 2019

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      Ocean Wise
      September 9, 2019
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    • Getting Down and Dirty

      Ocean Wise
      April 12, 2019

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      March 6, 2019

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      Ocean Wise
      February 19, 2019
      2

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      Ocean Wise
      October 17, 2018
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    • Discover Rays a Hands-On Experience

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      March 10, 2016
      Vancouver Aquarium
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    • Vancouver Aquarium’s Valentine’s After Hours: Three ‘o-fish-ally’ awesome extras

      Ocean Wise
      January 20, 2020

    • Q&A with Ian Urbina, author of The Outlaw Ocean

      Ocean Wise
      January 19, 2020

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      Ocean Wise
      January 19, 2020

    • Walruses Lakina and Balzak say “Au Revoir”

      Ocean Wise
      November 7, 2019

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      Ocean Wise
      October 29, 2019

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      Ocean Wise
      October 18, 2019
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    • In search of "The Better Fish": Barramundi

      Ocean Wise
      November 5, 2019
      Aquablog, Ocean Wise, Ocean Wise Life
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    • Le Soleil du Sud: La Pachamama et les pétoncles Ocean Wise

      Ocean Wise
      January 20, 2020

    • Keep Calm and Poke On

      Ocean Wise
      January 17, 2020

    • Beyond Seafood: Sustainability at Ricky’s Restaurants

      Ocean Wise
      December 6, 2019

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      Ocean Wise
      December 5, 2019

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      Ocean Wise
      November 8, 2019

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      November 4, 2019
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      April 2, 2019
      Aquablog, Education
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      Ocean Wise
      January 1, 2020

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      October 3, 2019

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      Ocean Wise
      September 20, 2019

    • Ocean Wise AquaVan Takes Sea Creatures to Northern B.C. Communities

      Ocean Wise
      September 19, 2019
      2

    • How to Inspire Home Learners of All Ages

      Ocean Wise
      September 17, 2019

    • Faces of Ocean Bridge 2019 (Part 2)

      Ocean Wise
      April 1, 2019
  • Arctic
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    • Arctic Diving: Farewell Cambridge Bay

      Vancouver Aquarium
      September 2, 2016
      Arctic Connections, Vancouver Aquarium
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    • 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

    • What Counts as “Arctic?”

      Ocean Wise
      February 12, 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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    • Cleaning Canada’s Shoreline: 2019 in Review

      Ocean Wise
      December 17, 2019

    • Shoreline Spotlight: Site Coordinator Tackles Litter on Foot and Flotilla

      Ocean Wise
      November 26, 2019

    • What a Summer! Reconnecting Toronto to Shorelines

      Ocean Wise
      November 18, 2019

    • Shoreline cleanups happen everywhere – even in the Arctic!

      Ocean Wise
      November 5, 2019

    • Showing up for shorelines and breaking records

      Ocean Wise
      October 3, 2019

    • Ocean Bridge ambassador founds Project Snorkel

      Ocean Wise
      September 20, 2019
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      June 26, 2012
      Research Site - CORI
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    • DNA: A Key piece in the puzzle of Killer Whale Conservation

      Ocean Wise
      November 8, 2019

    • A Whale of a Season — Part 2

      Ocean Wise
      October 3, 2019

    • Welcome to Ocean Watch: BC Coast edition

      Ocean Wise
      August 30, 2019

    • A Whale of a Season – Part 1

      Marine Mammal Research
      July 25, 2019

    • Shedding Light on the Local Kelp Environment

      Ocean Wise
      October 19, 2018

    • “Mom, Can You Hear Me?”

      Ocean Wise
      September 21, 2018
  • Whale Sightings
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      Paternity Revealed in the Southern Resident Killer Whale Population

      Wild Whales
      September 16, 2011
      Whale Sightings
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    • A Whale of a Season – Part 1

      Marine Mammal Research
      July 25, 2019

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      Ocean Wise
      April 25, 2019

    • Springer’s Success Story

      Ocean Wise
      February 19, 2019
      2

    • A Mother’s Love

      Ocean Wise
      May 10, 2018

    • Drawing a Humpback Whale, All 14 Metres

      Ocean Wise
      December 1, 2017

    • Wild Killer Whale Adoption Program Marks 25th Anniversary

      Ocean Wise
      October 26, 2017

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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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