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    • A Taste of Sustainability

      August 30, 2019
      Aquablog, Ocean Wise, Ocean Wise Seafood
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      April 15, 2021
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      April 14, 2021
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      April 13, 2021
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      April 13, 2021
    • L’importance de l’adhésion au programme Ocean Wise Seafood

      April 6, 2021
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    • Ocean Wise Pacific Halibut – Delicate, Flaky, Versatile

      March 23, 2013
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    • OCEAN WISE RÉPOND AU FILM SEASPIRACY

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      April 14, 2021
    • Un avenir bleu-vert I : découvrez Merinov, centre d’innovation au Québec

      April 13, 2021
    • Un avenir bleu-vert II : découvrez l’École des Pêches et de l’Aquaculture du Québec

      April 13, 2021
    • L’importance de l’adhésion au programme Ocean Wise Seafood

      April 6, 2021
    • LIVRE DE CUISINE NUMÉRIQUE D’OCEAN WISE SEAFOOD: CUISINER POUR LA CONSERVATION

      April 2, 2021
  • Education
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    • A Year of Ocean Service 

      November 16, 2018
      Education
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    • Local Teens Hope to Inspire Shoreline Cleanups in March with Restaurant Gift Cards

      March 5, 2021
    • There’s something for everyone in this ocean-friendly holiday book guide

      December 22, 2020
    • Where are they now? Catching up with Ocean Bridge alum Aira Sarmiento

      July 24, 2020
    • Artists for Ocean Wise – new colouring app in support of Vancouver Aquarium

      July 22, 2020
    • Ocean Wise is celebrating ‘World Oceans Day’ for the entire month of June!

      June 3, 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

      May 12, 2020
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  • Arctic
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    • Vancouver Aquarium Arctic Research

      Diving in the Arctic 2015: Photo Highlights

      September 2, 2015
      Arctic Connections
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    • Ocean Wise study: Synthetic fibers are invading the Arctic

      January 12, 2021
    • Quiet Oceans: Has the COVID-19 crisis reduced noise in whale habitats?

      April 11, 2020
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    • Pilot Program Conducts Ocean Plastics Workshop with Youth from Nunavut’s Pond Inlet

      October 4, 2019
    • Diving in the Arctic Unknown

      August 22, 2018
    • Innovation in the High Arctic

      August 14, 2018
    • Wild Canadian Coastlines 

      June 29, 2018
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  • 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

      September 3, 2013
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    • 2020 Wrapped: A Year for the Ocean

      January 26, 2021
    • Citizen Science Informs Government ban of Single-Use Plastics

      November 10, 2020
    • Thousands of Canadians Took on the Cleanup Challenge

      October 14, 2020
    • Join the “Cleanup Across Canada” challenge with #TeamShoreline

      September 23, 2020
    • Clean Shoreline Communities: municipalities as leaders in the fight against plastic pollution

      July 31, 2020
    • Ocean Wise applauds Government of Canada’s commitment to protect 30% of the world’s ocean by 2030

      July 21, 2020
  • Ocean Wise Research
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    • Sharing Knowledge With Marine Mammal Biologists

      December 14, 2011
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    • Monitoring by Ocean Wise, and others, leads to listing of Sunflower Sea Stars as Critically Endangered

      January 13, 2021
    • Monitoring killer whale body condition amidst a pandemic

      November 18, 2020
    • An Underwater Art Gallery… for Fish?

      November 18, 2020
    • The Good Kind of Research Flukes

      November 10, 2020
    • Ocean Not Immune to Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic

      October 29, 2020
    • Can Whales Mitigate Climate Change? Whales and the Carbon Cycle

      September 30, 2020
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      See Whales? Be Whale Wise!

      June 15, 2015
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    • The Good Kind of Research Flukes

      November 10, 2020
    • The BCCSN Welcomes BC Ferries to the Whale Trail

      September 10, 2020
    • And the Award for Top Cetacean Reporter Goes To…

      July 23, 2020
    • Ocean Wise recognizes top ‘whale reporters’ of 2019

      July 21, 2020
    • Unexpected Urban Whales: City Slicker Cetaceans Sighted During Coronavirus

      July 14, 2020
    • A Mother’s Love: Killer Whale Culture

      May 8, 2020

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Monitoring killer whale body condition amidst a pandemic

November 18, 2020
Aquablog, Research - Species Under Threat, Research Initiative - Biology, Ecology, and Health of Marine Mammals, Research Site - CORI
By: Amy Rowley, Photogrammetry Research Assistant This summer, Ocean Wise’s photogrammetry team were lucky enough to return to Johnstone Strait to continue our fieldwork to monitor the body condition of nor...

Orca Awareness Month – answering your burning killer whale questions!

July 6, 2020
Aquablog
Did you know that June is Orca Awareness month? We love answering your questions about killer whales! Here are a few of the most popular questions we are asked on social media and at outreach events: ...

Operation Emergency Freezer

May 21, 2020
Aquablog, Research - Species Under Threat
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By: Adam Warner Research Scientist Ocean Wise Marine Mammal Conservation Research Program “Hey guys, I checked on the -80°C freezer this morning and the alarm is beeping and the temperature is rising to ...

CSI Ocean Wise: tracking a killer…whale

May 3, 2020
Aquablog, Research - Species Under Threat, Research Initiative - Conservation Genetics
By: Adam Warner Research Scientist Ocean Wise Marine Mammal Conservation Research Program Conservation research efforts at Ocean Wise seek to improve our understanding of many issues faced by marine life. ...

Vote for the Oceans on October 21: A Message from Lasse Gustavsson, Ocean Wise president & CEO

October 18, 2019
Aquablog
Canadians speak proudly about Canada stretching from “sea to shining sea.” Those seas (all three of them, actually) are under serious environmental threat. As we approach the October 21 Canadian federal el...

Springer’s Success Story

February 19, 2019
Aquablog, Marine Mammal Rescue, Ocean Wise, Vancouver Aquarium, Whale Sightings
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In 2002, an orphaned killer whale, Springer (A73), brought together scientists, government officials and concerned citizens in the first orca recovery effort of its kind. Seventeen years after Springer’s rescue...

A Mother’s Love

May 10, 2018
Aquablog, Marine Mammal Rescue, Ocean Wise, Whale Sightings
Much like humans, mothers play an important role in killer whale culture. Killer whales are highly social, group-living animals whose social structure revolves around females. For some members of the animal kin...

Saving Southern Resident Killer Whales

January 30, 2018
Marine Biodiversity, Ocean Wise, Research Initiative - Biology, Ecology, and Health of Marine Mammals
By Dr. Lance Barrett-Lennard For some coastal First Nations in British Columbia, the killer whale is considered the guardian of the sea, but for killer whales on B.C.’s south coast, it’s time for humankind t...
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