Citizen scientists helped researchers this summer better understand ocean health and declining salmon populations in the Salish Sea. Approximately, 1270 passengers on BC Ferries took part in an onboard coastal naturalist program and learned how to use a tablet and app to collect images of the sea and sky.
Unprecedented high-resolution data from undersea canyons off Vancouver Island's west coast is bringing new understanding of the importance of these canyons as rapid-transit corridors for carrying carbon from the ocean surface to the deep sea.
Where ship that sailed Northwest Passage is stopping on BC coast
Two University of Victoria projects with the potential to change how the world interprets the forces of nature have taken a major step toward being realized with today's Canada Foundation for Innovation announcement of $6.3 million in funding support.
Biological oceanographer Diana Varela is studying the marine diatoms of Saanich Inlet, just north of campus. These unicellular lifeforms are the crux of ecosystems both aquatic and terrestrial. Part of a larger group of microscopic algae known as phytoplankton, diatoms drift across the top layer of oceans, seas and lakes.
The world-leading University of Victoria initiative Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) received $7.2 million in new funding today from the Canadian government to continue its vital work monitoring Canada's ocean and coasts, including endangered southern resident killer whale habitat.
For the first time since 2011, peak contamination levels in Pacific Canadian waters from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster are known, says a UVic scientist who has been monitoring levels since the meltdown of three reactors at the plant.
For the first time since 2011, peak contamination levels in Pacific Canadian waters from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster are known, says a University of Victoria scientist who has been monitoring levels since the meltdown of three reactors at the plant.
Two UVic alumni who went on to found the innovative non-profit Fish Eye Project led a live dive Aug. 27 in the icy waters of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, as part of the Canada C3 expedition.
Two University of Victoria alumni who went on to found the innovative Fish Eye Project are headed for Cambridge Bay, Nunavut next week for a live dive in Arctic waters that will be broadcast simultaneously across the country as part of the Canada C3 expedition.
Five UVic projects, with $823,000 in new funding from a leadership fund from the Canada Foundation for Innovation as part of a $52-million federal investment announced Aug. 15, will carry out ground-breaking research including in an aquatic disease research facility at UVic.
A new research program led by marine ecologist John Volpe and grad student Stefania Gorgopa is a great opportunity for scuba divers to get involved as citizen scientists. The UVic researchers are turning to the local sport diving community for help conducting surveys of marine fish populations around Victoria and the Gulf Islands.
Hundreds of citizen scientists from around the world participated in a recent study counting deep-water sablefish off the Tofino coast. That’s a lot of eyes focused on the deep.
The impressive performance of more than 500 "citizen scientists" who signed on for a study counting deep-water sablefish off the Tofino coast is heartening proof that understanding our oceans is something we can all be part of, says one of the Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) scientists who co-authored the study.
The impressive performance of “citizen scientists” who signed on for a study counting deep-water sablefish off the Tofino coast is heartening proof that understanding our oceans is something we can all be part of, says one of the Ocean Networks Canada scientists who co-authored the study.
For the first time, seaborne radiation from Japan’s 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster has been detected in a Canadian salmon, says UVic chemical oceanographer Jay Cullen, who leads the InFORM coastal network that monitors marine radioactivity off BC.
