GPL Film Screening: Uncharted Waters
In 2021, Átl’ka7tsem/Howe Sound was designated as a UNESCO Biosphere Region. Come learn about our Biosphere and its unique ecosystem. Bob Turner’s short film A UNESCO Biosphere Region for Átl’ka7tsem / Howe Sound precedes our feature, Uncharted Waters, which shows four diverse young activists’ work to protect our Biosphere: local marine ecologist Fiona Beaty, Bowen artist Di, and Skwxwú7mesh Nation members...
FILM: The Soul of the Fraser
Ravens Cry Theatre 5559 Sunshine Coast Hwy, Sechelt, British Columbia, CanadaFree film screening followed by Q&A with filmmaker Ken AshleyRaven's Cry Theatre Where millions of birds and billions of fish once thrived, now mere thousands struggle to co-exist with the unregulated growth of Metro-Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. Local filmmakers Brendan Chu and Chris Jenkins explore the Fraser Estuary, the original river delta beneath the...
NEMO Talk: Cetaceans of the Salish Sea: A deeper dive into their lives.
Join Gary Sutton, Research Technician, from the Whales Initiative Body Condition Research Program in his presentation on the natural history of cetaceans in the Salish Sea and the ongoing research projects. “Ocean Wise has been an ocean champion for 50 years. From humble beginnings in Vancouver in 1951, we have grown into a global environmental charity...
NEMO Talk: Forage Fish & the Chinook Salmon Connection
Fish diet studies can help us understand changes in marine ecosystems. Will Duguid (UVic and PSF) will provide an introduction to key prey of Chinook and Coho salmon and discuss what salmon diets are teaching us about the food web that supports our salmon and the species that rely on them. He will also present...
NEMO Talk: Eelgrass and Beyond: Protecting Resilient Estuaries on the Sunshine Coast
For the last two decades, SeaChange has worked with communities surrounding the Salish Sea to conserve, restore, and protect nearshore marine areas, so vital as nurseries for salmon and all life they depend upon. As climate changes become more impactful to these vital marine nurseries, it is increasingly important to protect those that have a higher capacity...
NEMO Talk: Tracking Dungeness Crab across the Salish Sea
Online zoom webinarCommunity science for crabs Online Zoom webinar Driven by communities and led by the Hakai Institute, Sentinels of Change is a decade-long project that uses light traps to investigate the ecology and dynamics of a critically important species in our inland sea: Dungeness crab. The first year of our project had one trap on the Sunshine Coast...
Sunshine Coast Friends of Forage Fish
Friendship Park, Trail Bay, Sechelt. Come out to the beach at Friendship Park, Trail Bay, and learn about who forage fish are, and why they are important. Then we’ll get into a demonstration of the sampling process used by citizen scientists all along the Salish Sea to determine where these important little fish are choosing...
uncharted waters
Roberts Creek Community Hall 1309 Roberts Creek Rd, Roberts Creek, BC, CanadaJoin us on World Ocean's Day to celebrate the conservation and restoration work in Howe Sound. Free film screenings and presentations. In the film screening uncharted waters, and with a guest from the Marine Stewardship Initiative we will explore the Átl’ḵa7tsem/Howe Sound Community Map and the Marine Reference Guide. We will view some video of the Átl’ḵa7tsem/Howe Sound UNESCO Biosphere...
Herring curtain demonstration
Mission Park, Davis Bay Come and learn about Herring Curtains and why they are Important for Pacific Herring survival We will demonstrate the construction of a herring curtain and explain why such curtains are important to the Pacific Herring. There will be extra materials on hand for participants to help make a herring curtain, and...
NEMO Talk: Generation Restoration: feeding hope and resilience back into kelp forests and the community
Salish Sea kelp ecosystems are among the most vital and most threatened ecosystems in Canadian waters. Kelp forests are foundational and provide critical habitat and food for diverse species, including commercially, recreationally, and culturally valuable species such as salmon, rockfish, lingcod, herring, prawns and crab. Kelp provides vital ecosystem services, stabilizing shorelines, filtering water, mitigating storm...