Join Ocean Networks Canada in celebration of World Oceans Day 2014, by attending film screenings, a public talk and a family event. You can also participate by becoming a citizen scientist.
Canadian Ocean Films
Celebrate the Ocean with a new documentary about the Salish Sea. Reaching Blue is the story of a coastal way of life under threat where hope is found both in remembering our past and facing the challenges of our future.
Screenings
University of Victoria - Cinecenta Theatre
June 6, 7:30-9:30 pm, Tickets $10
Event includes Q&A with film makers and Kate Moran, President & CEO, Ocean Networks Canada
Vancouver Public Library, Alice MacKay Room, 350 West Georgia Street
June 10, 7:00-9:00 pm, Free Admission
With speakers, in association with the David Suzuki Foundation. More information.
Cowichan Estuary Nature Centre presents
June 8, 7:00 pm, Free Admission
Where: 1845 Cowichan Bay Rd, Cowichan Bay, BC
Fukushima - A View from the Ocean
Ken Buesseler, a marine chemist from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, presents the science of Fukushima radioactivity in the Pacific ocean, including a report on a citizen scientist program to help monitor its spread towards the west coast over the coming years. More information.
Lecture
St. Ann's Academy, 835 Humboldt Street, Victoria BC
June 5, 7:00-9:00 pm, Free Admission
Hosted by Kate Moran, CEO of Ocean Networks Canada. Presentation and Q&A followed by cash bar.
Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre Celebrations
(Photo courtesy of Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre)
Family event on the waterfront in Sidney, BC behind the Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre. Featuring un- derwater cleanup, ocean games, music, food, artists and more.
Event
Beacon Park, Sidney BC
June 8, 11:00-3:00 pm, Free Admission
Visit our booth and watch video highlights from the deep sea.
Become a Citizen Scientist!
Online
Calling all citizen scientists! Ocean researchers need your help in analyzing huge volumes of video that support their discoveries and lead to a better understanding of our ocean planet. Digital Fishers is a science-oriented crowdsourcing game-with-a-purpose that recruits people on the Web to gather data selected from thousands of hours of video, archived every year from undersea cameras.
How do you participate? It’s simple! Just count the sablefish on 60 second video clips from Ocean Networks Canada deep sea video cameras. You’ll help scientists better understand life in the ocean - and have fun! Learn more.
Donate
Ocean Networks Canada enables new discoveries – connecting researchers, teachers, students and the public with the ocean and providing opportunities for you to become one of our growing group of citizen scientists. Your support causes a powerful ripple effect that generates the ideas, builds know-how, develops new tools that allow us to stay focused on our global leadership position.
Please donate to support our journeys of ocean discovery.
