A Whale of a Season – Part 1
Returning from the pilot season of its
drone-based killer whale study along the central coast of British Columbia, Ocean
Wise’s Marine Mammal Research team marked the sixth year of its photogrammetry
project, ...
Ocean Wise® Wins Pollution Probe Award
The annual Pollution Probe Gala, called Living in the Plastic Age, calls attention to the crisis of plastic pollution on our planet. Pollution Probe has chosen to highlight Plastic Wise, an Ocean Wise initiativ...
A Mother’s Love
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
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...
Holiday Giving Reaches New Depths
Sustainable giving has never been so simple. That’s why this year it’s time to take things to the next level…to sea level, that is. Make a splash this holiday season and give ocean-friendly gifts that make a di...
Diving Arctic Waters
This past August, four Ocean Wise divers motored to a remote Arctic islet to conduct a BioBlitz survey. A BioBlitz is a snapshot of Canada’s biodiversity, recorded by scientists and citizen scientists, to mark ...
Wild Killer Whale Adoption Program Marks 25th Anniversary
Since 1992, the Wild Killer Whale Adoption Program has supported ground-breaking research by the Marine Mammal Research Program at the Coastal Ocean Research Institute, an Ocean Wise initiative. In the past, th...
Arctic Summer: Field Notes from Churchill River Estuary
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...