COAST Announces Four Successful Clean Energy Innovation Challenge Participants
Four British Columbia-based companies are the successful participants of an Innovation Challenge to be delivered through Innovate BC’s Integrated Marketplace and enabled by the BC Marine Energy and Decarbonization Hub, a joint initiative of COAST and the University of Victoria.This Innovation Challenge is designed to help address the Canadian Coast Guard's goal to decarbonize land-based operations in remote coastal areas of British Columbia. It targets new innovations that can displace diesel at remote locations, utilizing renewable energy sources (including marine renewables), as well as
Sonardyne's Fetch Positioning Technology to Support Deepsea Neutrino Detector
detect and analyze high-energy neutrinos. P-ONE, a multi-national, multi-institute scientific collaborative project, will help scientists to unlock insights into extreme cosmic phenomena like black holes and supernovae. The cosmic neutrino telescope will be built off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, leveraging Ocean Network's Canada's existing world-class advanced deep-sea infrastructure. Alongside exploring the universe, P-ONE will also deliver vital data for oceanography, climate science and tectonic research, advancing both astrophysics and marine technology
Canadian Research Vessel Headed Home
The Canadian Coast Guard’s new research vessel, CCGS Naalak Nappaaluk, has officially begun its transit from Victoria, British Columbia, to its homeport in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.The CCGS Naalak Nappaaluk is the largest dedicated science vessel ever built for the Canadian Coast Guard. It is expected to begin its first science program delivery in Spring 2027 focused on oceanographic research, geophysical surveys and hydrographic surveys.The vessel will be homeported at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and will spend 2026 conducting post-acceptance trials for the
Canada’s Marine Carbon Removal Opportunities Could Be Worth Billions
and economic advantages and incentives for Canada to support mCDR approaches as part of the government’s forthcoming climate competitiveness strategy. Canada is uniquely positioned to pursue mCDR with access to the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans, with both coastal provinces of British Columbia and Nova Scotia already being home to mCDR companies. The report offers an assessment of what is possible when leveraging these attributes, in order to set aspirations and highlight opportunities and co-benefits available.“If advanced safely and responsibly, mCDR can play a leading role
Marine Heatwaves Impact Food Webs
change.The study, published in the scientific journal Nature Communications today, was conducted by an interdisciplinary team of researchers from MBARI, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, the Hakai Institute, Xiamen University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Southern Denmark, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada.To explore the impacts of marine heatwaves on ocean food webs and carbon flows, the research team combined multiple datasets that tracked biological conditions in the water column in the Gulf of Alaska for more than a decade
Concerns for Deep Sea Ecosystems Heighten as US Opens Opportunities For Mining and Extraction
moratorium or precautionary pause on deep-sea mining."Torsten Thiele, Founder of The Global Ocean Trust, co-authored Chapter Four of the paper, "Economics of a Deep-Sea Mining Moratorium," alongside Ussif Rashid Sumaila, Professor of Ocean and Fisheries Economics at the University of British Columbia. “The value of the deep sea floor ecosystems is immense," said Torsten. "The ISA has an important role to play in safeguarding this blue natural capital and managing exploration.” “New technologies are enabling a far greater understanding of the deep
COAST, University of Victoria Join to Launch the BC Marine Energy and Decarbonization Hub
In a stride for the Canadian clean energy transition, two leaders in British Columbia’s ocean innovation sector have announced a joint initiative that forges brand new pathways for the development and commercialization of marine renewable energy and decarbonization technologies in British Columbia.The BC Marine Energy and Decarbonization Hub is a core initiative of COAST, Pacific Canada’s hub for the sustainable blue economy, delivered in partnership with the University of Victoria. The Hub is the culmination of three decades of community-centered clean energy research and innovation
PML: How Climate Change Will Alter European Fish Distribution
Research, Wageningen University and Research, IJmuiden, the NetherlandsTechnical University of Denmark, National Institute for Aquatic Resources, Kongens Lyngby, DenmarkNippon Foundation Ocean Nexus, School of Resource and Environmental Management (REM), Simon Fraser University (SFU), Burnaby, British Columbia, CanadaHellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Anavyssos, GreeceInstitute of Marine Research (Havforskningsinstituttet) (IMR), Bergen, NorwayDECOD (Ecosystem Dynamics and Sustainability), IFREMER, INRAE, Institut Agro, Brest, FranceCentre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Fascinated by Shipwrecks Podcast, Episode 4: Combing the Deep off the BC Coast
Kathy A. Smith“The thrill of new discoveries, unraveling mysteries, and telling stories about shipwrecks kind of got in my blood, if you will.” Jacques MarcWhat’s it like to challenge the identity of a documented wreck? Jacques Marc did just that on one of his first wreck dives on British Columbia’s south coast. A vessel that sank in Bedwell Bay just after World War II was thought to be the HMCS Cranbrook but once Marc dived on it, all that changed.As an avocational archaeologist (someone who volunteers), Jacques has been instrumental in helping grow the Underwater Archaeological
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