Weekly Ocean News
Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Coral reefs are under threat from climate change, but new research suggests that other reef-building animals might be more adaptable. Sponges are an ancient group of animals who oft...
Happy Hagfish Day!
Everyone loves an underdog and the hagfish is perhaps the ocean’s biggest underdog when it comes to looks. This scavenging eel-like creature has no jaws and a wriggly saggy body whose most notable attribute is ...
Meet Vet Fellow Megan Strobel
Megan Strobel’s favourite animals show her roots. As a Florida girl, she grew up watching bottlenose dolphins from shore. As an undergraduate student at University of Florida, she worked on another favourite an...
Weekly Ocean News
Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Despite a global ban on the use of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in 2004, the chemicals persist in the environment and have accumulated up the food chain. High levels of PCBs hav...
It’s Campus Cleanup Month!
It is estimated that by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean. Plastic pollution isn’t only an ocean issue – at least 80 per cent of the plastic in our oceans originates on land, including park...
Aquaculture 101: Part 2
More than half of seafood consumed globally is farmed. In order to shed some light on the opaque sources of our seafood, I wrote an overview of popular farmed species (see Part 1). Next, let’s address a farmed ...
Scouts on the Shoreline
For some, shoreline cleanups become an annual tradition that they look forward to every year. Scout Canada Leader, Henry Starzynski, started leading shoreline cleanups with his Ottawa 72nd group 12 years ago. F...
Vancouver Aquarium Earns Top Grade
On Wednesday, September 26, during the annual Association of Zoos and Aquariums conference in Seattle, WA, the Vancouver Aquarium received the top industry standard following a thorough review by AZA’s indepen...