Patagonia by Sea: Random Thoughts and Photographs
Ocean edges have lured humans for as long as we’ve existed as a species. From the first people who settled along African shores, to colonizers during the age of discovery …
Frequently Asked Questions of a Whale Watcher
By: Lili Wilson As a naturalist on a whale watching vessel, I spend serious quality time with whales, and almost as much time answering questions about whales. These charismatic megafauna …
Dive In! How writing about the ocean changed my life.
By Ann Eriksson As an author and biologist, I’ve written adult novels about whales and ocean contaminants, mites living high in the canopy of old-growth forests, coyotes in the Canadian …
Canadian Conservation Corps: How It Evolved My Ocean Literacy
The last four months have been a whirlwind of an adventure that took me to Toronto, Haliburton, Quebec City, Tadoussac, and Ottawa. It all happened through the Canadian Conservation Corps …
Tag! You’re It!, the Maritimes’ first conservation in a can
The Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) is a global aquatic research, data management and partnership platform headquartered at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It tracks more than 160 aquatic species …
2018 National Dialogue: Youth Empowering Youth
By: Rachael Bell-Irving Plastic is everywhere in our oceans and it’s going to take a deep, transformational change in humanity’s consciousness and activities regarding the oceans to ensure healthy, sustainable …
Plog for the Sea by Back to the Sea Society
Have you heard of plogging? It’s a term that stands for picking up litter while jogging and it’s sweeping the globe! This fall, the Back to the Sea Society decided …
Dive into Ocean School!
By: Lucija Prelovec Growing up in the Greater Toronto Area, I found that no one really understood the ocean. They seemed surprised to hear Canada is an ocean nation or …
A Sargassum Summer
Until a few years ago, Sargassum, a free-floating brown seaweed that lives in the open ocean, was of very little interest to most scientists, and of no interest whatsoever to …
Highlights of CaNOE’s National Symposium on Ocean Literacy
From July 13-15, amazing educators, explorers, and scientists from across the country met at the Marine Institute of Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland for CaNOE’s National Symposium 2018: Navigating …