Research

How Assistant Professor of Biology Jonathan Ferrier is using an Indigenous framework to guide his summer research projects.

While Canada has done well compared to countries like the U.S. and the U.K. in containing COVID-19, rates of infection and deaths are higher than in many similar western democracies. Why? Social Work prof Raluca Bejanad her colleague Kristina Nikolova look at the comparisons.

When researchers deployed 15,000 underwater video cameras on coral reefs around the world, they expected to see sharks in most if not all of the footage they would gather over a three-year span. What the research team, led by Dal biologist Aaron MacNeil, found was grim corroboration of how overfishing has dramatically depleted reef shark populations globally.

The effects of economic stress on children are big, writes Dal economist Shelley Phipps and PhD grad Nancy Kong. Parents' anxiety about their financial situation is equivalent to the effect of a divorce, and is likely at play amid COVID-19.

The Ocean Tracking Network has been awarded a grant of $13.4 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) Major Science Initiatives Fund, providing important resources to support the technology needed to monitor how the global ocean is changing — including tracking the movements and survival of more than 245 important species.