The U.S. Department of Defense’s (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a team, led by the University of Hawaii (UH), a $25 million contract to develop a hybrid coral reef comprising natural coral and man-made structures that will protect the coastline from flooding, erosion and storms and provide habitat for corals and other reef life.
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In recognition of the importance of the Pacific herring, the Salish Sea Community Guardians, an organization dedicated to all aspects of stewardship for Salish Seas First Nations, have created a cross-cultural action plan. This action plan would provide First Nations traditional herring spawning habitat recovery and protection in key herring spawning areas in waters around southern Vancouver Island. Part of
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SeaDoc Society and the OceanGate Foundation have partnered in support of deep exploration and research in the Salish Sea off the coast of British Columbia and Washington state. In September 2018 three teams of researchers will dive to depths as great as 200 m in Cyclops 1, a manned submersible owned and operated by OceanGate Inc. During the week-long expedition
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In a review published in the journal Molecular Ecology, scientists from the Department of Zoology at Oxford University examined all knowledge published to date of deep sea invertebrates. Their paper highlights the disparity between our basic knowledge of the ecology of deep sea animals and the growing impact of humans on the deep ocean. Over the last 30 years there have
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