The final OceanCanada Conference will bring together the great minds that have contributed to our project since 2014 as well as other scientists, coastal community members, and policy makers to collaborate, discuss, and find new opportunities.

Our forthcoming book, titled “Canada’s Oceans: Pathways to Sustainability in a Sea of Change”, will be the focal point of the conference. This book represents a colossal effort from nearly sixty incredible scientists across Canada.

 

Three OceanCanada conferences have taken place. Conferences in Vancouver (2016) and Halifax (2018), have on both occasions brought together more than 60 researchers, students and post-doctoral fellows, advisory board members, community and institutional partners to take stock of our activities and work towards an integrated research agenda. Through a series of panels and group discussions, round tables and workshops, the conference delegates identified the emerging threats, challenges, and opportunities facing Canada’s oceans and coastal communities, and began the difficult task of synthesizing research priorities.

Our final conference, hosted virtually from March 15-17, 2022, will bring together many of the completed ideas, theses, reports and efforts of the past eight years. It will bring together many of the great minds that contributed to our project as well as other scientists and policy makers to collaborate, discuss, and find new opportunities. Focused around our book, titled “Canada’s Oceans: Pathways to Sustainability in a Sea of Change“, this represents a colossal effort from nearly sixty incredible scientists! Final publication date TBA.

You are invited to participate, share initiatives, solutions, or pose questions with the other participants involved in this final edition of the OceanCanada Conference and discover tangible actions addressing the major challenges threatening the future of our oceans, fisheries and coastal communities.