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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

WATCH VIDEO OF TALK

Who will be tending your vegetable garden when the ocean rises? An octopus? A seastar? The Octopus’s Garden series features experts on sea level rise from a wide variety of backgrounds who will address ways we can adapt and build resilience, with a focus on local to global challenges and solutions.

OCTOBER 19, 2017

WATCH VIDEO OF TALK here.

Who will be tending your vegetable garden when the ocean rises? An octopus? A seastar? The Octopus’s Garden series features experts on sea level rise from a wide variety of backgrounds who will address ways we can adapt and build resilience, with a focus on local to global challenges and solutions.

OCTOBER 5, 2017

WATCH VIDEO OF TALK

Who will be tending your vegetable garden when the ocean rises? An octopus? A seastar? The Octopus’s Garden series features experts on sea level rise from a wide variety of backgrounds who will address ways we can adapt and build resilience, with a focus on local to global challenges and solutions.

September 21, 2017

WATCH VIDEO OF TALK .

Who will be tending your vegetable garden when the ocean rises? An octopus? A seastar? The Octopus’s Garden series features experts on sea level rise from a wide variety of backgrounds who will address ways we can adapt and build resilience, with a focus on local to global challenges and solutions.

April 27, 2017

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The Skeena Watershed, part of the Sacred Headwaters, is rich in environmental, cultural and economic wealth. It is a land of astonishing beauty, a place with soaring mountains, colourful fields and the powerful and wild Skeena River that starts at the Sacred Headwaters and flows through Prince Rupert all the way to the the Great Bear region. It is home to wild salmon, Eulachon, Kermode Bears, and a wide range of other terrestrial and aquatic species. 

¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's Faculty of Environment and World Wildlife Fund Canada are pleased to invite you to celebrate the richness and dynamism of the Skeena. Come and hear how scientists are working with First Nations and community groups to promote the protection and management of biodiversity. 

When: Thursday, April 27 from 7 - 9 p.m. 
Where: Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, 580 Hastings Street, Vancouver 
Who: Jonathan Moore , Associate Professor, Aquatic Ecology & Conservation, Liber Ero Chair of Coastal Science and Management, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV; David DeWitt , Natural Resources Department Manager, Office of the Wet'suwet'en; Moderator: David Miller , President and CEO of WWF-Canada; and Respondent: Zafar Adeel , Executive Director, Pacific Water Research Centre, Faculty of Environment, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

April 27, 2017

The second ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Climate and Energy Research Day will take place on April 27, 2017.  The event is hosted by the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s Office of the Vice-President, Research and International, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Climate Futures Initiative, Climate Change Impact Consortium and the Pacific Water Research Centre.

Our Water BC’s Tri-Cities Water All Candidates Meeting
Wednesday, April 12

Is the Province doing enough to protect water for our quickly growing communities? What role does climate change play in how decisions are made at the local and provincial level? Are the Tri-Cities resilient enough to withstand drought or flooding? And what about those we share the land and water with - the salmon, bears, deer, birds and species at risk. What does strong Provincial leadership look like as our climate continues to change?

You are invited to a special water focused all candidates meeting for the ridings of Port Moody-Coquitlam, Coquitlam-Maillardville, Coquitlam-Burke Mountain and Port Coquitlam on Wednesday April 12th from 7-9pm at Douglas College-Lecture Theatre A1470.

Hear what your local candidates running in the upcoming BC Provincial Elections have to say about their parties platform on water related issues.

This event is being organized by a variety of groups in our community interested in water issues including the Canadian Freshwater Alliance, Sierra Club of BC, Water Watch Salmon Society, Force of Nature Alliance, Rivershed Society of British Columbia, Fraser Riverkeeper and the Coquitlam River Watershed Roundtable.

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September 30, 2016, 7pm

Join us for a free public talk and discussion on working together for better watershed governance featuring Merrell-Ann Phare and Ta'Kaiya Blaney.

Time:  7:00 pm
Location: ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Harbour Centre, Room 1400 (515 W. Hastings St)
Reservations: More info: Abstract and Bio

April 7, 2016

Free public talk and discussion, 7pm ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Harbour Centre, Vancouver

Water and the Sacred: The Flow from Commodity to Gift

Presented by Dr. Stephen Scharper, School of Environment, University of Toronto.

Are you curious about the water crisis facing over 780 million people and increased threats such as climate change to clean water?  Dr. Scharper will explore how blending human rights concerns with religous and cultural worldviews embracing the sacredness and spiritual power of water may help us address the water crisis.

This is part of the

CLOSED
March 31, 2016

The Centre for Coastal Science and Management (CCSM) closed its doors on March 31, 2016.  This site remains available as a resource for reports and past activities. Some of the CCSM programming will be subsumed by the  under their coastal science and management theme. We take this opportunity to thank all of our members, partners, sponsors and individuals who participated and contributed to the success of the Centre over the years. 

The Centre for Coastal Science and Management at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV promoted interdisciplinary , education and dialogue on Canada's coastal ecosystems, particularly those in British Columbia. By linking social and natural science with local knowledge, the Centre focused on three key themes:

1. Coastal and marine conservation
2. Adaptation to climate change
3. Building resource management capacity (government, community, academic)

World Water Day, March 22

You are invited to celebrate World Water Day with us!

What does water mean to you?
Wallace J Nichols, author of the New York Times best seller, Blue Mind, has started a groundbreaking conversation on the remarkable truth about the benefits of being in, on, under and near water.  Blue Mind illustrates the crucial importance of our connection to water and provides a paradigm shifting "blueprint" for a better life.

Join us for a presentation by Wallace J Nichols which combines cutting edge research with compelling personal stories that show how our proximity to water can improve performance, increase calm, diminish anxiety, and increase professional success.

Reservations:

Vancouver Aquarium, 4D Theatre
Doors Open at 6pm | Reception 6-7pm | Presentation/Discussion 7-8:30
Book sale during reception, signing at 8:30pm

Presented by:
Vancouver Aquarium
Ruby Lake Lagoon Society
Pacific Water Research Centre, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV