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Oceans

World Oceans Day experts

The following University of Victoria experts are available to media to discuss World Oceans Day, marked on June 8.

Sounds of science: finding hope with fish sounds

Vanier scholar Hailey Davies is co-leading an education program called FishSounds Educate; an initiative that engages all ages in ocean literacy through the exploration of recorded fish sounds and interactive games.

World-leading climate research gets a $4M boost

The Ring

From helping to convert seaweed overgrowth into benefits for the blue economy, to improving travel across sea ice, two University of Victoria projects on Monday [eds note: June 3] received nearly $4 million in federal support to advance climate solutions.

UVic researchers test community climate solutions

The Ring

Solar storm in deep sea observatories

Media release

The powerful solar storm driving the aurora borealis over global skies last weekend was also triggering the movement of compasses deep in the ocean, as revealed in new scientific findings shared today by Ocean Networks Canada (ONC), a University of Victoria initiative.

Experts on 2024 Earth Day

The following UVic experts are available to media to discuss environmental and climate change topics ahead of Earth Day (April 22).

Marine fossil record reveals climate insights

Media release

As ocean temperatures continue to rise due to climate change, marine plankton may be the newest candidate to act as an oceanic early alert system. According to a new Nature paper from UVic micropaleontologist Andy Fraass, and a team of international collaborators at the University of Bristol and Harvard University, an analysis of the fossil record shows that changes to community structure take place long before mass extinction occurs.

ONC Antarctic

Media release

Canadian and European experts in polar observation are joining forces in a new partnership that will see Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) operating a subsea observatory at the Spanish Antarctic Station, providing year-round, near real-time data on ocean conditions there—the first time that ONC will extend its ocean monitoring outside Canadian waters.

ONC Argo floats

Media release

Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) expands the reach of Pacific Ocean monitoring with new deep-sea Argo floats that collect vital ocean data while traveling up and down through the water column, the space between the sea surface and the seafloor.

Record summertime ocean temperatures

Media release

Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) has recorded the highest daily average summertime temperatures at two of its seafloor observatory sites in the northeast Pacific Ocean since continuous live monitoring started there in 2009.

Marine heatwave impact on corals

Media release

As the world grapples with hot ocean temperatures, new UVic research shows marine heatwave coral impact is worse than we thought before.

Storing carbon safely under the sea, new study

Media release

Injecting CO2 into ocean basalt has almost no risk of triggering seismic activity like earthquakes or fault slip according to new research from Solid Carbon, a climate change mitigation project.

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Oceans

World Oceans Day experts

Sounds of science: finding hope with fish sounds

World-leading climate research gets a $4M boost

UVic researchers test community climate solutions

Solar storm in deep sea observatories

Experts on 2024 Earth Day

Marine fossil record reveals climate insights

ONC Antarctic

ONC Argo floats

COP28 Experts

All in on science

Bates awarded McDonald Fellowship

New UVic marine facility

Record summertime ocean temperatures

Marine heatwave impact on corals

Storing carbon safely under the sea, new study