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The Ocean Tracking Network 2023 annual report
A message from the directors: As we transition into a new year, we’re excited to reflect on the Network’s accomplishments and all that is to come in the newest phase of OTN. We are thrilled to have received $38.5 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s...
2023 Tag! You’re It! funding announcement
Since its inception in 2017, 50 cents from every can of Big Spruce Brewing and the Ocean Tracking Network’s Tag! You’re It! (TYI) conservation financing beer have been allocated to non-profit organizations and charities in Canada that support healthy aquatic...
The Ocean Tracking Network 2022 annual report
A message from the directors: Since 2008, the Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) has been creating a research, data management and infrastructure platform that tightly integrates biological, oceanographic and social sciences, promotes technological innovation and fosters...
Newly funded STRAITS project to track aquatic life across Europe and beyond
A new research project funded by Horizon Europe will track aquatic animals across all four corners of Europe in support of conservation and management. Strategic Infrastructure for Improved Animal Tracking in European Seas (STRAITS) is a four-year, 3.5-million-euro...
The Ocean Tracking Network endorsed by UNESCO as part of the UN Ocean Decade
On June 8, 2022, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) endorsed nine projects as part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Six of those are nestled under the Marine Life 2030 program, including the...
Cape Breton brewery delivers help for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale
Five marine conservation groups are better equipped to welcome migrating North Atlantic right...
OTN and partner nodes cross 300 million animal detections in 2020
The Data Centre (OTNDC) recently completed a data push, bringing the total number of animal...
Where animal telemetry meets sponges
The maintenance of ocean infrastructures for monitoring and research is expensive and...
10 ways to use your limited-edition North Atlantic right whale bandana
The North Atlantic right whale is one of the most endangered whales in the world—a new...
The Ocean Tracking Network 2019+ annual report
Since 2008, the Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) has been creating a unique global research,...
Shelley Denny: making room for Mi’kmaw livelihood fishery easier than you think
Shelley Denny is a Mi'kmaw doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Program at Dalhousie...
Marine animal response and necropsy
Every year, more than 1,000 marine animal incidents are reported in Canada. These incidents include marine mammals, such as whales, sharks, seals or turtles, who are in distress, stranded, injured, entangled, or deceased.
The Ocean Tracking Network uses new side scan sonar on collaborative ghost gear retrieval project
Coastal Action, an environmental charity based in Lunenburg, N.S., has recently announced a new...
OTN-supported European marine research project stays on track despite pandemic
The SeaMonitor project, led by the Loughs Agency and supported by eight leading marine research...
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