Impact
Informing and advancing ocean issues that are truly at the frontier
Driving policy
We engage with policy makers and stakeholders to create mechanisms for change
Accelerating industry
Linking research to industry and creating new commercial ventures to impact sustainable ocean use
Community outreach
We engage the community through education programming to create awareness about the ocean
Research impact
Creating new knowledge through high-risk, high gain interdisciplinary research
Indigenous engagement
Ensuring respectful and meaningful engagement between researchers and Indigenous community and partners
The North Atlantic Carbon Observatory -  an "international ocean space station"
A North Atlantic Carbon Observatory would allow Canada to achieve a global step-change in confidence around carbon targets, through an international consortium that champions:
Rising thermometer

Climate

What we don't know can hurt us

Near-real-time information delivery

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Easily accessible global ocean data to inform key variables monitoring ocean carbon changes

A fish

Biodiversity

Safe and sustainable ocean for us all

Filling data gaps

Assess gaps in data an deploy new sensors and technologies to fil these gaps
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Sushi roll

Food from the Ocean

Sustainable fisheries for the future

Integration

Bring together current monitoring regimes to allow information access across all nations and programs.

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Sushi roll

Food from the Ocean

Sustainable fisheries for the future

In situ enhancements

The Observatory would massively accelerate existing opportunities for innovation, particularly in the climate integration / acceleration of data delivery

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Learn more about the North Atlantic Carbon Observatory

Bringing together researchers, industry and government to solve complex ocean problems

Halifax Office

Dalhousie University
Steele Ocean Sciences Building
6375 Edzell Castle Circle
P.O. Box 15000
Halifax, NS  Canada
B3H 4R2
1.902.494.8823

St. John's Office

Memorial University
Alexander Murray Building
Room ER 2003
St. John's, NL  Canada
A1B 3X5
1.709.864.3773

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