OFI researchers are in the news, informing the public about their work and educating all about the ocean
— its challenges and the benefits it can provide for our environment, economy and communities.
A Ted Talk by Paul Snelgrove, OFI's Associate Scientific Director serves as inspiration for subsea exploration. "We know more about the surface of the Moon and about Mars than we do about the deep sea floor despite the fact that we have yet to extract a gram of food, a breath of oxygen, or a drop of water from those bodies.”
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While the impacts of climate change are reflected in storms, heat waves, floods and droughts that ravage communities around the world, the ocean too is feeling the heat.
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Ocean School recognized as a leader in digital excellence. Ocean School — a ground-breaking online learning experience — an OFI partner, has earned honours for digital excellence and creativity at an awards ceremony that is the largest of its kind in Quebec.
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CEO Wendy Watson-Wright talks about the importance of ocean literacy and how it's being advanced through Ocean School, a unique online educational program supported by OFI.
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In 2005 Dr. Annie Mercier was sent a strange video: sea cucumbers rolling around at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Sea cucumbers – sausage-shaped marine animals with soft, cylindrical bodies – can usually be found on the seafloor where they gather together in large herds. Suckers on their tube feet allow the animals to stick to the ocean floor as they crawl along in search of food.
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From transportation to food production, our dependence on the global ocean is longstanding and obvious — as is, especially in recent decades, the environmental impact of our interactions with it. But in trying to create a “blue economy” alongside a sustainable ocean, there are other important issues raised, says fisheries management researcher Megan Bailey.
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