Ocean Literacy makes Waves at IMPAC5
By: Anika Smithson After 6 years, people were able to gather once again for the 5th International Marine Protected Areas Congress. IMPAC5 brings together ocean conservation professionals – scientists, educators, policy makers, governments, Indigenous [...]
Save the Turtles of Parismina
By: Steven Lee Hidden amongst the Tortuguero canals between the National Park of Tortuguero and the city of Limòn is the village of Barra del Parismina, Costa Rica. Located at the mouth of [...]
Cognitive Research on a Well-known, but not Well-liked Waterbird: the Seagull
Hi, my name is Lucas, a 4th-year B.Sc. (Honours) student in Psychology at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Throughout my degree, I have gained a passion for animal behaviour, a fascinating field of psychology [...]
A Walk Amongst the Ghost Gear: My Personal Encounter with One of the World’s Biggest Pollutants
By Draco Dunphy As I strolled through lush forest, one bright and sunny day, I chanced upon a barachois– a pool where river meets the bay. And much to my confusion, moreover to my [...]
Ocean Frontier 2022: “Addressing pressing issues from the ocean-climate nexus”
By: Kayla Hamelin BACKGROUND From May 15-19, ocean enthusiasts from around Atlantic Canada and around the world gathered in Halifax / K’jipuktuk for the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) 2022 conference (link: https://www.ofi.ca/event/ocean-frontier-2022). OFI [...]
From Mountains to Marine Parks: How Parks Canada is Fostering Ocean Literacy From the Inside Out | Des parcs des montagnes aux parcs marins: Comment Parcs Canada favorise la connaissance de l’océan à l’intérieur même de l’organisation
By: Carter McNelly (La version française suit ci-dessous) This blog was adapted from a Parks Canada article with new contributions from Ariane Shaw, Jessica Lambert, Noémie Roy, and Veronick Gagnon. One of the nine [...]
Water, Waves and Mental Health | L’eau, les vagues et la santé mentale
By: Ariane Shaw (La version française suit ci-dessous) Having grown up in the interior of Canada it wasn’t until later in my childhood that I was first exposed to the ocean. My first ocean [...]
Community Science: Creating Hope for the Future
By: Ruby Banwait 2021, you’ve been testing my limits. When I look back through a year’s worth of major headlines, I reflect on the hardships we have faced. From the ongoing global pandemic and [...]
Coastal Foraging
By: Bryan Martin With empty shelves at the grocery store and rising food prices, many parts of Canada saw a huge increase in hobby gardeners last year. Living in eastern Canada, where spring only [...]
My growing relationship with the ocean
By: Natasha Jackson-Drouin We humans are inherently relational beings. We rely on the relationship to our kin from the very start and build on those and other relationships throughout our short time here on [...]
I was wrong about ocean conservation, here’s why you might be too
By: Sofia Goulart Growing up, I believed that ocean conservation and literacy in Canada was for those that have developed a personal connection to marine spaces or those that lived in coastal areas. I [...]
Whale Talk: Orca Communication and Dialect
By: Holly George PC: https://photolib.noaa.gov/ Signaling and communication is a fundamental and critical function for most, if not all, species on earth. Now more than ever, we as humans are realizing the importance [...]
