It’s never too early to help young ocean scientists get to know the ocean. In April 2017, Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) hosted its fifth annual Ocean Science Symposium, an engaging two-day opportunity to inspire the next generation of ocean scientists. Bringing together over 70 students and teachers from 16 schools across Vancouver Island, northern British Columbia, and the Arctic, this educational hands-on experience emphasized the teamwork and collaboration needed to explore and understand the ocean.

In March 2017, physical oceanographer Kim Martini hopped on a seaplane from Seattle to visit Victoria, BC. Kim works with Seabird Scientific and she was invited by ONC to deliver a boot camp on how to get the best data from Seabird's oxygen sensors. Not only is Kim an experienced ocean scientist, but she is also a well-known science communicator and blogger with Deep Sea News. We sat down with Kim to talk about the value of Twitter, pitching stories, leveraging humour, and what's next for science communication.

ONC staff visit Prince Rupert for the 38th annual Seafest.

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Check out the events Ocean Networks Canada is participating in and join us for Expedition 2016: Wiring the Abyss! We invite you to get to #knowtheocean.

A look at how ONC plays an active role in the local community. We use our knowledge and tools to help others discover the ocean and understand the planet.

ONC was thrilled to return to the northern British Columbia coast for the 57th annual All Native Basketball Tournament and weeklong celebration of sport and culture.

World Oceans Day is a special time for Ocean Networks Canada, who joined community events all along the BC coast, from Vancouver to Prince Rupert and a celebration in the nation’s capital.

Play Digital Fishers while helping a marine biologist better understand how creatures in the deep ocean live – where there is no light and food is scarce!

It's free and online! As students get back to their classrooms this fall, teachers are invited to explore Shouting Whales, a new marine science learning resource from ONC and Open Schools BC.

Citizen scientists around the world are invited to participate in a new sablefish counting study. Two years after our original Digital Fishing Derby, we are now launching a follow-up study, which will help researchers refine the results from the first study. The goal is to count sablefish, or black cod, that appear in a series of one-minute clips—almost 1,500 clips in total.

On 14 November 2013, Easton White, a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of Victoria working with the Baum Lab, led a workshop on implementing ecological population models.  Easton talked about some of his research, which has covered a wide range of biological systems, including work on pikas (Ochotona princeps), in California, and lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris) in the Bahamas.

Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) and Let’s Talk Science are proud to announce the release of four new classroom marine science kits available free of charge to K-9 teachers across Canada.

ONC’s K-12 Ocean Science Activity Developer, Monika Pelz, has compiled three new learning packages, each tailored to a different age group, to update current Lets Talk Science classroom kits. These include “Budding Biologist“ for Grades K-3; “Wonders of Weather” for Grades 4-6; and “Tectonic Rocks" for Grades 7-9.  All of them explore their respective topics through a marine science lens.

Lights, camera, action! On July 9, 2013 the Ocean Alive production crew was on location at Mount...