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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.

On May 8th, 2018, HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco toured the CERC.OCEAN laboratory and container, meeting with our diverse research team

From April 6 - 28, 2018, PhD student Ricardo Arruda participated in the MSM73 cruise from Cadiz, Spain to St. John's, Newfoundland, onboard the German vessel, the Maria S. Merian.

From January 20 to February 11 of 2018, PhD student Ricardo Arruda participated in a cruise onboard the German research ship, Poseidon, to study and track an upwelling patch of the west coast of Africa