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Dalhousie University and NFB team up to teach students about oceans

Lab News Ocean School

A unique project aimed at educating students on the world’s oceans is being created by Dalhousie University in partnership with the National Film Board of Canada. Global’s Jennifer Grudic reports.

July 25, 2016
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An Investment in Ocean Education and Literacy

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Dal scientists are working with NFB filmmakers to bring the ocean education to life through engaging learning experiences using cutting-edge technologies, powerful storytelling techniques and audiovisual teaching platforms.

July 23, 2016
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Ocean School bringing virtual underwater exploration into classrooms

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Middle-school students in Nova Scotia will be diving into the world’s underwater ecosystems through a new interactive program.

Ocean School, developed by Dalhousie University and the National Film Board, combines video footage with information provided by marine scientists.

July 22, 2016
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Annual Ram Myers Lecture: Dr. Carl Safina

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Productivity is a central determinant of population dynamics with consequences for population viability, resilience to exploitation, and extinction. In fish, the strength of a cohort is typically established during early life stages. Traditional approaches to measuring productivity do not allow for interannual variation in the maximum reproductive rate, a parameter governing population productivity. Allowing such process variation provides the ability to track dynamic changes instead of assuming a static productivity regime. Here we develop and evaluate a multivariate stock–recruitment state-space model to simultaneously estimate time-varying stock productivity and synchronicity of dynamics across populations.

October 16, 2015
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Declining productivity of cod stocks

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Productivity is a central determinant of population dynamics with consequences for population viability, resilience to exploitation, and extinction. In fish, the strength of a cohort is typically established during early life stages. Traditional approaches to measuring productivity do not allow for interannual variation in the maximum reproductive rate, a parameter governing population productivity. Allowing such process variation provides the ability to track dynamic changes instead of assuming a static productivity regime. Here we develop and evaluate a multivariate stock–recruitment state-space model to simultaneously estimate time-varying stock productivity and synchronicity of dynamics across populations.

May 27, 2014
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Effects of sea surface warming on marine plankton

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Ocean warming has been implicated in the observed decline of oceanic phytoplankton biomass. Some studies suggest a physical pathway of warming via stratification and nutrient flux, and others a biological effect on plankton metabolic rates; yet the relative strength and possible interaction of these mechanisms remains unknown. Here, we implement projections from a global circulation model in a mesocosm experiment to examine both mechanisms in a multi-trophic plankton community.

May 26, 2014
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Global Population Trends and Human Use Patterns of Manta and Mobula Rays

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Apr 29, 2014

April 29, 2014
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100 million sharks killed each year, say scientists

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March 1, 2013
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Now you see them…

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New Scientist

April 1, 2012
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Lobsters Find Utopia Where Biologists See Trouble

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The New York Times

August 1, 2011
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