MAINSTREET NS | March 16, 2017
Boris Worm drops in on his way home from Lunenburg, where a vessel is being prepared for a voyage around Canada’s four – that’s right, four – coasts.
MAINSTREET NS | January 31st, 2017
Our Oceans Guy Boris Worm talks about the science behind the estimate, and how much we can improve our prospects by taking decisive action on climate change now.
MAINSTREET NS | January 3rd, 2017
Boris Worm tells Bob Murphy what he makes of the thousands of dead herring, crab, starfish, and even a humpback whale that have washed up dead on beaches in southwest Nova Scotia.
MAINSTREET NS | November 29th, 2016
For this episode of Surf And Turf, guest host Preston Mulligan speaks with Mainstreet’s Oceans Guy Boris Worm, and another scientist who did field work in Greenland.
MAINSTREET NS | Sept 13, 2016
Boris tells us about a trip to the Bay of Fundy near Grand Manan Island to study and film North Atlantic right whales.
Ocean School hopes to better engage grades 6-9 in science
Anisha Rajaselvam is a Grade 8 student who worked as an Ocean School peer educator. The CBC’s Felicia Latour speaks with her, and our oceans guy Boris Worm, after learning the initiative will get a quarter million dollars in federal funding.
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Dalhousie University and NFB team up to teach students about oceans
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.
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An Investment in Ocean Education and Literacy
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.
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Ocean School bringing virtual underwater exploration into classrooms
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.
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Annual Ram Myers Lecture: Dr. Carl Safina
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.
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