Le projet Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking est administré par le Centre des sciences marines de l’Aquarium de Vancouver. Les scientifiques implantent des radioémetteurs dans les poissons (p. ex. saumoneaux), ce qui leur permet de suivre la migration des poissons le long d’une série de lignes d’écoute qui suivent la plate-forme océanique. L’objectif de ce projet est […]

Ce projet ciblera les enjeux de sécurité et de contrôle de la qualité des aliments pour animaux à l'Aquarium de Vancouver. Nous mènerons une enquête au tout début de l'étude afin de comprendre le fonctionnement de la chaîne de manutention. L'enquête comprendra un questionnaire, une étude sur le terrain et un échantillonnage, et se concentrera […]

The Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking (www.postcoml.org) project is part of the Census of Marine Life study. Radio-transmitters are surgically implanted into fish (e.g. salmon smolt) and are tracked during their migration by a series of listening lines along the ocean shelf. This project will estimate survival rates as a function of time since release and […]

The project will be focusing on the safety issues and quality control of the feed in Vancouver Aquarium. By applying a survey at the very beginning, a general knowledge of the whole handling chain procedure will be generated. The survey will be carried out by means of questionnaire, field investigation and sampling and will be […]

Healthy ocean food webs are key to the socio-economic viability of coastal communities in British Columbia. The Vancouver Aquarium’s Coastal Ocean Research Institute (CORI) was established in 2014 to provide an ongoing assessment of the health of Canada’s oceans. This project supports this strategic priority of the CORI initiative and advances the organization’s mission to […]

Microplastic pollution is an emerging threat to marine environments. Microplastics (small plastic polymers

Healthy and productive coastal regions are highly important to Canada, both socio-economically and for the ecosystem services they provide. In 2015, the Vancouver Aquarium launched a new coast-wide initiative in British Columbia (PollutionTracker) to assess coastal health by generating high quality contaminant data for mussels and nearshore sediments. In the proposed study, Dr. Gabriela Aguirre-Martinez […]