Sustainable Ocean Conference 2021: Seeing Beyond the Shoreline
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World Wildlife Fund
WWF Canada works to conserve species at risk, protect threatened habitats, and address climate change. We draw on indigenous knowledge and implement nature-based solutions that challenge the way we work and redefine humanity’s relationship with the planet. WWF-Canada’s long term vision is simple: to create a world where people and nature thrive.
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MEOPAR
The Marine Environmental Observation, Prediction, and Response Network (MEOPAR) is a national Network of Centres Excellence linking top marine researchers and highly qualified personnel with partner organizations and communities. MEOPAR funds leading edge-research, overcomes barriers to collaborative research and helps to train the next generation of marine professionals.
Faculty of Science
Atlantic Canada's science powerhouse
Labatt Breweries
Canada’s premiere beer company. Proud Brewers of Budweiser, Bud Light, Michelob Ultra, Keiths, Corona and Stella Artois. Operating out of the Oland Brewery and Keith’s Brewery in Halifax.
Leah Fulton
Untangling the problem of abandoned, lost, and discarded fishing gear: effectiveness of side scan sonar as a gear detection method in Clarks Harbour, Nova Scotia.
Stephen Tiller
Developing a Common Risk Framework for the Canadian Marine Transport Industry: Approaches, Design, and Transparency
David Marrack
Co-operation of Harbour Facilities in Isolated and Island Communities
Fadal Al-Ajdaa
Exploring the obvious and the hidden factors contributing to the safety issues in the Canadian commercial fishing industry.
Monica Ragan
Using the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach with Small Craft Harbour Users in Nova Scotia, Canada
Daniel Calderon
Coming to ocean management: Marine Spatial Planning with meaningful stakeholder engagement.
Oceana
Oceana Canada is an independent charity established to restore Canadian oceans to be as rich, healthy, and abundant as they once were through science-based policy change. Oceana Canada has successfully campaigned to end the shark fin trade, make rebuilding depleted fish populations the law, improve the way fisheries are managed and protect marine habitat. We work with civil society, academics, fishers, Indigenous Peoples and the federal government to return Canada’s formerly vibrant oceans to health and abundance. By restoring Canada’s oceans, we can strengthen our communities, reap greater economic and nutritional benefits and protect our future.
BMR Structural Engineering
With fifty years of experience, BMR delivers structural engineering services throughout Atlantic Canada. Leaders in innovation and quality, BMR commits each project to green building and sustainability. From new buildings, to wharves and retaining walls, which has resulted in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification.
Lisa Baxter
Evaluating Canada’s single-use plastic (SUP) mitigation policies via brand audit and beach clean-up data.
James Lucas Bent
The Identification of Federal Legislative Tools for Implementing Ecosystem-Based Protections of Swiftsure Bank: Lessons from a Small Ecological Reserve
Nidhi D'Costa
The effects of anti-finning legislation on global shark mortality
Bruno Padovese
Deep Learning for Marine Mammal Acoustic Detection
Dane Pedersen
Trust, Control, and Risk in the Salish Sea: A Case Study of the Transboundary Network Governing the Endangered Southern Resident Killer Whale
Philippe Mongeon
The intersection of shark research, policy and the public: a bibliometric view
Aaron Cogger
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Gap Analysis for Eastern Arctic Species
Tianna Clarke
The Canadian maritime sector perception of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMOs) short-term measures for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
Francheska Krysiak
Anthropogenic influences on the decline of reef fish biomass in the Bay Islands, Honduras
Shuyi Li
How do marine affairs and related programs prepare their graduates to be ocean and coastal educated stewards?
Mohamad Alikhani
Sustainable Development of Offshore Renewable Energy
Emma Snowdon
Multisectoral collaboration and the role of knowledge: assessment of the Apoqnmatulti’k Project as a knowledge mobilization catalyst.
James Barclay
Investigating potential tools that could be used to assist in prioritizing blue carbon ecosystems in Canada.
Megan Fraser
Assessing impacts of industrial effluent on nutrient cycling and food web length in a coastal marine ecosystem using compound specific isotope analysis