The Pacific Marine Science Alliance Society (PMSA) has announced a three-year agreement with the Marine Environmental Observation, Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR) designed to strengthen national ocean research collaboration across Canada’s three coasts. 

UBC is one of five member universities of the PMSA, which owns and operates the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, and works to advance marine and coastal research, education and sustainability.  

The new partnership, backed by $300,000 in funding from PMSA and MEOPAR, will help researchers better collaborate at regional, national and international levels to address crucial research challenges, including climate resilience, marine hazard prediction and sustainable ocean resource use. The collaboration will also prioritize Indigenous-led stewardship, student mobility and new international research partnerships. 

The June 2023 heatwave in northern European seas was “unprecedented but not unexpected”, new research shows.

6 October 2025/Kiel. The Southern Ocean around Antarctica plays a decisive role in the global carbon cycle – and thus in the climate system. This is supported by a new study involving the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, published today in Nature Communications. An international team has demonstrated that between 800,000 and 430,000 years ago, a stronger layering of the Southern Ocean prevented carbon dioxide from rising from the deep ocean into the atmosphere. As a result, temperatures were significantly lower than in later warm periods.