Narwhal Study: A Privileged Opportunity
By Clint Wright, Vancouver Aquarium executive vice president & chief operating officer
I have found that being unwillingly woken from a deep sleep is rarely a pleasant experience and last night was a jol...
Narwhal Study: Narwhal Stampede
By Clint Wright, Vancouver Aquarium executive vice president & chief operating officer
A strong and gusting onshore breeze has been blowing from the north for the last few days and very few narwhals have...
Narwhal Study: Greenland Shark Tagging
By Clint Wright, Vancouver Aquarium executive vice president & chief operating officer
At dawn fog banks started to roll in from both up and down the Sound — wispy fingers, silently reaching out and cree...
Narwhal Study: Narwhals in Abundance
By Clint Wright, Vancouver Aquarium executive vice president & chief operating officer
It's Wednesday here in camp at about 10:30 a.m. and I am sitting in the communal cooking tent catching up on downloa...
Narwhal Study: Back in Tremblay Sound
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...
Arctic August
By John Nightingale, President & CEO, Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre
The Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre has been active in Canada’s Arctic since the early 1970s, with expeditions, res...
The Crucial Role of Canada’s North
Not long after the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre opened as a centre for conservation, research and education dedicated to West Coast marine life, our founding director Dr. Murray A. Newman set his si...
How to Sound Like You Know What You’re Talking About
The following is a typical scenario in the stairway leading down to the underwater beluga viewing gallery:
Kid (points at narwhal model hanging from ceiling): What’s that?
Parent (quickly looks around for...