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MORI Cruise: OFI/CERC: Seacycler Deployment (2022)

Paleoceanography proxy calibration, ROV surveys and sample collection of coral habitats on Scotian Shelf and southern Grand Banks; deployment of sediment traps; CTD rosette casts.

February 7, 2023

MORI Cruise: NSERC, Coral and Water Column Paleoceanography

Paleoceanography proxy calibration, ROV surveys and sample collection of coral habitats on Scotian Shelf and southern Grand Banks; deployment of sediment traps; CTD rosette casts.

MORI Cruise: Office of Naval Research, Fog And Turbulence Interactions in the Marine Atmosphere – FATIMA

Deploy surface-based instruments, (i.e., remote sensors, radars, D-CAMS, cameras), to advance the ability to predict and detect fog formation;
CTD rosette casts

MORI Cruise: OFI/CERC: Seacycler Deployment (2021)

Deploy SeaCycler off Scotian shelf; sediment traps; phytoplankton sampler moorings, CTD rosette casts

MORI Cruise: NSDoEM/OERA Offshore Hydrocarbon Seep Investigation

Through the use of a deep water ROV, direct core sampling of hydrocarbon seep sites showing evidence of thermogenic hydrocarbons (i.e. pockmarks, gas vents, bacterial mats, gas hydrates). 2. Validate genomic bioassay strategies through the collection of sediment push cores along transect lines across hydrocarbon seeps.

Sensitivity and resilience of British Columbia’s glass sponge reefs to ocean warming and acidification

The glass sponge Aphrocallistes vastus contributes to the formation of large reefs unique to the Northeast Pacific Ocean. These habitats have tremendous filtration capacity that facilitates flow of carbon between trophic levels.

January 26, 2023

Featuring MEOPAR research stories in World Water Journey platform

World Water Journey (WWJ), a knowledge-sharing platform with an interactive map-each stop is a journey into the water story of the place. An innovative platform for knowledge sharing, story-telling, and community grassroots awareness-raising…

January 12, 2023

Featuring MEOPAR research stories in World Water Journey platform

World Water Journey (WWJ), a knowledge-sharing platform with an interactive map-each stop is a journey into the water story of the place. An innovative platform for knowledge sharing, story-telling, and community grassroots awareness-raising…

Coastal Communities Face The Future

While journal articles are the commonplace means to disseminate research results, documentary films are amazingly effective at reaching the general public, students and, through word-of-mouth, politicians and other decision-makers.

Shipping Resilience: Strategic Planning for Coastal Community Resilience to Marine Transportation Risk’ (SIREN) Open access book

The ‘Shipping Resilience: Strategic Planning for Coastal Community Resilience to Marine Transportation Risk’ (SIREN) project aims to improve understanding of how coastal maritime transportation systems would be disrupted in natural hazard events in Canada.

Enhancing knowledge exchange among MEOPAR researchers and Indigenous communities through SIKU: The Indigenous Knowledge Social Network – Part 2

This project will facilitate KM between MEOPAR researchers, Inuit communities, and decision-makers through SIKU.

Enhancing knowledge exchange among MEOPAR researchers and Indigenous communities through SIKU: The Indigenous Knowledge Social Network – Part 1

This project will facilitate KM between MEOPAR researchers, Inuit communities, and decision-makers through SIKU.

Resilient-C Knowledge Mobilization

The Resilient Coasts Canada (Resilient-C) platform is a free online tool for knowledge sharing between coastal communities. The Knowledge Mobilization funds would be used to translate portions of the Resilient-C platform into French…

Interactive data visualization tool for public understanding of seasonal and interannual changes in sea ice climate indicator

MEOPAR (and others) funded the Arctic Marine Activities Integration and Synthesis Project (now called Arctic Corridors and Northern Voices (ACNV) led by Dr. Jackie Dawson…

Arctic Corridors and Northern Voices Research Knowledge Mobilization

MEOPAR (and others) funded the Arctic Marine Activities Integration and Synthesis Project (now called Arctic Corridors and Northern Voices (ACNV) led by Dr. Jackie Dawson…

Empowering a Nation: The Laxgalts’ap website and app project

The Laxgalts’ap website and app project is the final stage of a six-year collaboration that brings together archaeological, ethnographic, and ethnoecological research to document the eco-cultural history of the Quaal watershed. This multi-disciplinary research is an outgrowth of the Nation’s on-going efforts to revitalize title, language, environmental stewardship, and spirituality.

Indigenous Ocean Knowledge: A story of risk and resilience of the Squamish Ocean Canoe Family — film

Indigenous worldviews and foresight are important factors of adaptive capacity of coastal and marine socio-ecological systems (Whitney et al, 2017). Yet, there is little awareness of the Indigenous Knowledge system within the formal planning and management systems that govern coastal areas…

January 11, 2023

Manger notre Saint-Laurent (MSL) website

As part of Manger notre Saint-Laurent activities (MSL, Sustenance from our St. Lawrence) funded by the Réseau Québec Maritime (RQM), we co-designed an innovative web-based prototype of a website to facilitate informed choices about consuming edible resources from the St. Lawrence.

Lab Life film series

This Knowledge Mobilization project, Laboratory Life, is a film adaption of CLEAR’s lab book. It will show how our commitments to equity, humility, and anticolonialism look in the day to day life of the lab.

Coastal Routes

This knowledge mobilization project will utilize qualitative in-depth interviewing within four case studies (see below) to identify and understand how COVID19 has impacted coastal fishery communities of practice.`

Canadian Ocean Literacy Coalition National Strategy KM

Understanding Ocean Literacy in Canada is a ground-breaking national study conducted by a team of early career researchers, graduate students, and diverse organizational and university partners.

Community-based Observing of Nunatsiavut coastal Ocean Circulation (CONOC)Atlases

The Community-based Observing of Nunatsiavut coastal Ocean Circulation (CONOC) project aims to increase understandings of coastal oceanography in Nunatsiavut.

Bringing Sable Island to Canadians: Knowledge Mobilization Through a Novel Wireless Sensor Network

In this project, we aim to bring Sable Island to Canadians. Sable Island is one of Canada’s newest National Park Reserves, but few Canadians will ever have the opportunity to personally experience this remote island…

Knowledge Mobilization for “Co-developing innovative approaches with Indigenous partners to foster coastal resilience, food security and sustainable marine harvests while enhancing community capacity to proactively respond to marine risks”

We propose to build an interactive website to present results on effects of climate change and hunting/fishing co-developed scenarios on the dynamics of the marine ecosystem in the Canadian Arctic.

Canadian Hazards Emergency Response & Preparedness (CHERP) Initiative App

We are proposing the development of an application for mobile devices (“app”) that would communicate local hazards risk information and assist residents of our partner communities to develop customized household emergency preparedness and response plans.

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