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    • Ocean Wise Applauds New Efforts By Canada to Protect our Oceans

      Vancouver Aquarium
      September 11, 2017
      Ocean Wise
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    • Foraging the Ocean: Hand-harvesting Delicacies

      Ocean Wise
      November 8, 2019

    • In search of “The Better Fish”: Barramundi

      Ocean Wise
      November 5, 2019

    • Sustainable Seafood Arrives Coast-to-Coast in Canada

      Sarah Ellam
      October 18, 2019

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

      Ocean Wise
      October 4, 2019

    • Showing up for shorelines and breaking records

      Ocean Wise
      October 3, 2019

    • A Taste of Sustainability

      Ocean Wise
      August 30, 2019
  • Marine Mammal Rescue
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    • Rare Guadalupe Fur Seal Saved in Joint Rescue

      Ocean Wise
      January 22, 2016
      Marine Mammal Rescue
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    • ‘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

    • Getting Down and Dirty

      Ocean Wise
      April 12, 2019

    • Ocean Wise
      March 6, 2019

    • Springer’s Success Story

      Ocean Wise
      February 19, 2019
      2

    • Meet Vet Fellow Megan Strobel

      Ocean Wise
      October 17, 2018
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    • Vancouver Aquarium Stanley Park

      Discovering Hidden Treasures at the Aquarium

      Vancouver Aquarium
      August 10, 2015
      Vancouver Aquarium
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    • Walruses Lakina and Balzak say “Au Revoir”

      Sarah Ellam
      November 7, 2019

    • Last Chance to see Vortex

      Sarah Ellam
      October 29, 2019

    • Halloween at the Vancouver Aquarium: Half-priced admission for Costumed Kids and other spook-tacular offerings

      Ocean Wise
      October 18, 2019

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

      Ocean Wise
      September 19, 2019
      2

    • Go Deep and Dark at Vancouver Aquarium’s After Hours Hallowe’en

      Ocean Wise
      September 19, 2019

    • Rescued Northern sea otter Tazlina jets in from Alaska

      Ocean Wise
      September 9, 2019
      3
  • Ocean Wise Seafood
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    • Supporting Our Oceans, One Wine Glass at a Time

      Ocean Wise
      May 5, 2014
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    • Foraging the Ocean: Hand-harvesting Delicacies

      Ocean Wise
      November 8, 2019

    • In search of “The Better Fish”: Barramundi

      Ocean Wise
      November 5, 2019

    • A Calamari Quest

      Ocean Wise
      November 4, 2019

    • Sustainable Seafood Arrives Coast-to-Coast in Canada

      Sarah Ellam
      October 18, 2019

    • A Taste of Sustainability

      Ocean Wise
      August 30, 2019

    • Failure to Lunch

      Ocean Wise
      August 11, 2019
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    • Showing up for shorelines and breaking records

      Ocean Wise
      October 3, 2019
      Aquablog, Education, Ocean Wise, Research Initiative - Conservation Through Citizen Science, Shoreline Cleanup
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    • Ocean Bridge ambassador founds Project Snorkel

      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

    • Ocean Wise
      April 2, 2019

    • Faces of Ocean Bridge 2019 (Part 2)

      Ocean Wise
      April 1, 2019

    • Inspiring Ocean Bridge Leaders: Micah and Danielle 

      Ocean Wise
      March 11, 2019
  • Arctic
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    • Whiteouts Bring New Meaning to Everyday Tasks

      Arctic Connections
      May 29, 2014
      Arctic Connections
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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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    • 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

    • Interview with Shoreline Cleanup volunteer Vanessa Fladmark

      Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
      May 2, 2019

    • Ocean Wise Named To Canada’s Greenest Employers List For 2019

      Ocean Wise
      April 15, 2019
  • Research Site – CORI
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    • Acoustic Smog: Animals and Underwater Noise

      Ocean Wise
      March 31, 2014
      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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    • Another Great Year of Sightings: Part I

      Wild Whales
      December 21, 2011
      Whale Sightings
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    • A Whale of a Season – Part 1

      Marine Mammal Research
      July 25, 2019

    • Bigg’s Killer Whales Hunting Seals in Vancouver Harbour

      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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