For the first time since 2011, peak contamination levels in Pacific Canadian waters from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster are known, says a 番茄社区 scientist who has been monitoring levels since the meltdown of three reactors at the plant.
Two UVic alumni who went on to found the innovative non-profit Fish Eye Project led a live dive Aug. 27 in the icy waters of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, as part of the Canada C3 expedition.
Two 番茄社区 alumni who went on to found the innovative Fish Eye Project are headed for Cambridge Bay, Nunavut next week for a live dive in Arctic waters that will be broadcast simultaneously across the country as part of the Canada C3 expedition.
Five UVic projects, with $823,000 in new funding from a leadership fund from the Canada Foundation for Innovation as part of a $52-million federal investment announced Aug. 15, will carry out ground-breaking research including in an aquatic disease research facility at UVic.
A new research program led by marine ecologist John Volpe and grad student Stefania Gorgopa is a great opportunity for scuba divers to get involved as citizen scientists. The UVic researchers are turning to the local sport diving community for help conducting surveys of marine fish populations around Victoria and the Gulf Islands.
Hundreds of citizen scientists from around the world participated in a recent study counting deep-water sablefish off the Tofino coast. That鈥檚 a lot of eyes focused on the deep.
The impressive performance of more than 500 "citizen scientists" who signed on for a study counting deep-water sablefish off the Tofino coast is heartening proof that understanding our oceans is something we can all be part of, says one of the Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) scientists who co-authored the study.
The impressive performance of 鈥渃itizen scientists鈥� who signed on for a study counting deep-water sablefish off the Tofino coast is heartening proof that understanding our oceans is something we can all be part of, says one of the Ocean Networks Canada scientists who co-authored the study.
For the first time, seaborne radiation from Japan鈥檚 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster has been detected in a Canadian salmon, says UVic chemical oceanographer Jay Cullen, who leads the InFORM coastal network that monitors marine radioactivity off BC.
A five-year, $46.6 million investment from the Canadian government鈥攖hrough the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)鈥攚ill ensure that ONC continues to lead the world in ocean observatory science and technology. The new funding is awarded to UVic through CFI鈥檚 Major Science Initiatives program, which supports a portion of the operating and maintenance costs of selected major science facilities across Canada.
Twenty years ago, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) was created to provide funding for the tools--the labs, facilities and equipment--that Canadian researchers need to move ideas, discoveries and inventions forward for the benefit of society and the world around us.
Researchers and students at UVic will benefit from a combined investment totalling $7 million from the Government of Canada and the university for infrastructure renovation and renewal projects of UVic's ocean and climate hub.
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鈥婣 new five-year, $46.6 million investment from the Canadian government鈥攖hrough the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)鈥攅nsures that UVic's Ocean Networks Canada continues to lead the world in ocean observatory science and technology.
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Every two weeks since September, a research team on the UVic research vessel MSV John Strickland has been venturing into the inlet to collect water samples at various depths (roughly 300 litres per day) to measure the levels of everything from dissolved gases and trace metals to phytoplankton and microbes.
