Projects

Advancing Indigenous Partnerships in Ocean Science for Sustainability

This project will develop and coordinate a team to help prioritize and facilitate Indigenous ocean science priorities within Canada for the Decade.

Advancing Ocean Literacy for the UN Decade in Canada

The project provides support to the Canadian Ocean Literacy Coalition to advance ocean literacy with the context of national and international efforts in this field.

Advocating for humane capture fisheries to support ocean and fisheries sustainability

This project researches and advocates for best animal welfare practices in wild capture fisheries in all stages of the capture process: capture, retrieval, onboard handling, and stunning & slaughter (and bycatch and ghost gear as additional causes of suffering).

Atlas Aquatica

This project is committed to building organizational capacity within the diving sector and supporting their voices in international dialogues for sustainability.

Basin Events to Coastal Impacts Program (BECI)

This ten-year initiative aims to develop an international ocean intelligence system capable of assessing changes and predicting impacts on local ecosystems and communities, using salmon as an exemplar species.

Better Biomolecular Ocean Practices

A project for the digitisation of omics protocols from long-term observatories around the world using machine-readable templates and metadata.

Blue Carbon as a Canadian Climate Change Solution: Modelling the Mitigation Potential of Kelp Under Future Climate Change Scenarios

This project aims to quantify the blue carbon potential of kelp ecosystems in Canada and will provide a quantitative assessment of the future extent of kelp forests, and their potential to mitigate climate change.

Blue Parks

The Blue Parks initiative improves marine protected area effectiveness globally to revitalize ocean ecosystems, safeguard marine biodiversity, store blue carbon, and sustain local communities.

British Columbia Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia Action Plan

The BC Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia (OAH) Action Plan is underway to develop strategies to better understand, mitigate, and adapt to the impacts of OAH on fisheries and aquaculture sectors and dependent coastal communities.