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OFI Seed Fund recipients Christopher Algar and CERC.OCEAN PhD student Allison Chua discuss the projects this funding will allow them to research.

New report charts steep decline in Canada's ability to deliver ocean research from Atlantic Canada. Liz Kerrigan and Doug Wallace were interviewed, highlighting how a lot of CERC.OCEAN research relies on using other country's ships.

Lin Cheng, Claire Normandeau, and Dr. Doug Wallace published a paper outlining the first published d13C-DIC international inter-comparison, highlighting the comparability of different methods, and the need to establish CRMs to improve accuracy and precision of results.

On October 22, 2018, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard visited Dalhousie University to tour the CERC.OCEAN lab, learn about Ocean School, and participate in a public fireside chat.

CERC.OCEAN PhD Student Allison Chua and her work on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) was featured in the Fall 2018 issue of The Journal of Ocean Technology.

CERC and TOSST PhD student Allison Chua reflects on her time in Cabo Verde during the 2018 TOSST/HOSST/UNI-CV summer school.

After trips to the west coast of Canada and the North Atlantic Ocean, CERC.OCEAN's two mobile laboratory containers are back home.

From May 25th to June 26th three members of the CERC.OCEAN team were on the German vessel, the Maria S. Merian, collecting and analyzing data, while participating in the MSM74 survey.

A team of CERC.OCEAN researchers with support from UBC staff and faculty went back to Powell Lake, BC to sample the deep ancient ocean waters that make up the bottom of this fjord.

A group of students and post-docs from Dalhousie University across different ocean-related disciplines, travelled to Brigadoon Village, South Alton, NS to participate in a retreat to promote interdisciplinary collaboration. This retreat was funded by CERC.OCEAN and included two of our PhD students.