With ocean data and models, researchers at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia are working to improve Colombia’s hurricane adaptation and mitigation measures.

Chemistry abounds in discoveries, but many questions remain. We asked members of the Canadian Journal of Chemistry’s International Advisory Board: What’s the most important unanswered question in your field?

Dr. Victoria Ndinelago Erasmus discusses his new paper examining the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification scheme in the African continent through the lens of the Namibian hake trawl and longline fishery and the Gambian sole bottom set gillnet fishery.

Discover how scientists at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute are studying the processes that drive the Lofoten Maelstrom.

Whale Seeker, a Montreal-based startup that leverages AI to simplify whale monitoring, is leading a new project the Canadian Arctic, to develop and test a scalable whale carbon and biodiversity detection methodology and credit system. The Whale Carbon Plus project will incentivise marine actors to monitor marine mammal presence and take meaningful action to avoid conflict with them.

A new study has documented the first simultaneous observations of waves and currents in Norway’s Lofoten Maelstrom – one of the world’s strongest open ocean tidal current systems. The observations, born out of a collaboration between the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, the Norwegian Coastal Agency and Nortek, will help make fishing and seafaring in the area safer.

Canada’s Forest Trust wasn’t to grow forests that will never be clear cut. Their aim - store carbon, support wildlife, and partner with First Nations for an equitable and green economy.

Dr. Ben McAteer discusses his new paper which presents a critical discussion on the potential of community science to function as a means of transforming marine management challenges.