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Underwater volcano still active and teeming with life in the Pacific
July 20, 2023 | BBC World News (Audio Interview)
Scientists have discovered an ancient, underwater volcano that is still active and is covered in up to a million giant skate eggs. The volcano, nearly a mile beneath the Pacific coast of Canada, is spouting hot fluid, providing a little-known species of skate with an ideal nursery. Before the expedition, the team thought the volcano was extinct and the waters around it frigid. Cherisse Du Preez, a deep-sea marine biologist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada and principal investigator on the expedition, said "I cheered out loud then I cried because it was such a breath taking scene, an incredible mesmerising symphony of life. The sheer mass of a new generation of deep sea animal that exists in this volcano is hard to imagine."
July 20, 2023 | 9News Australia
Deep off the coast of Canda, a team of researchers have made a remarkable discovery; a bubbling underwater volcano covered with "maybe a million" giant eggs.
Ancient Underwater Volcano Surprisingly Harbors Active Life, Giant Eggs off Canada's Pacific Coast
July 19, 2023 | Science Times
During their exploration of an ancient underwater volcano off Canada's Pacific coast, researchers made astonishing discoveries. Contrary to their initial belief that the volcano was extinct and the waters cold, they found it to be active and covered in numerous giant eggs. The underwater mountain, towering 3,600 feet above the seafloor, emitted warm water and was adorned with deep-sea corals.
July 18, 2023 | Live Science
Deep off the coast of Canda, a team of researchers have made a remarkable discovery; a bubbling underwater volcano covered with "maybe a million" giant eggs.
Expedition explores supervolcanoes and deep-sea firsts in B.C. waters
July 4, 2023 | Victoria News
Footage of superheated geysers, novel images of species behaviour caught off Vancouver Island.
‘Super octo-mom' off B.C. coast fights king crabs to protect her young
June 26, 2023 | CBC News
The research team witnessed the standoff during a 2-week expedition to explore B.C.'s deep-sea biodiversity
Scientists explore B.C.'s deep sea habitats (Video)
June 16, 2023 | CBC News
Dr. Cherisse Du Preez, a researcher at Fisheries and Oceans Canada, shares findings from an unprecedented deep-sea expedition off the coast of B.C. — including the story of an octopus protecting its unhatched young.
Scientists discover new ecosystems and life in B.C.’s deep sea
June 14, 2023 | Chek News
A recent expedition in B.C.’s ocean deep helped scientists discover new ecosystems and potential species that haven’t been seen before.
Meet the first recipients of the Roy Hyndman Award
May 15, 2023 | ONC News
Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is delighted to announce that two doctoral students, Moronke Harris and Fabio Frazao, are the first recipients of the new $20,000 Roy Hyndman Ocean Observing Award.
Collective Spotlight: Moronke Harris
March 30, 2023 | Jackson Wild
Moronke Harris does not fit into any mold. She is an oceanographer who has returned to academia after working in industry on climate engineering and intergovernmental, multi-vessel research expedition planning. She’s also an artist, founding The Imaginative Scientist, a science communication brand blending traditional outreach and artistry to produce an audience-first approach that engages, invites, and inspires curiosity. Moronke contains multitudes, and so does her work.
Exploring deep ocean hydrothermals
February 10, 2023 | Ocean Networks Canada: News & Stories
Meet ocean scientist and artist, Moronke Harris.
Inspiring student stories illuminate path for others
February 8, 2023 | University of Victoria: UVic News
They dive boldly into science and their stories are deeply inspiring. From Moronke Harris, a doctoral candidate (pictured above) who studies communities of microbes on the vents of underwater volcanoes, and Lauren Man, a master’s student (pictured below) who delves into kelp forests, to the seven other students featured here, the University of Victoria is celebrating student stories for UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
2022 | Advancing New Frontiers, pg. 10
Ocean Networks Canada Annual Report FY21/22.
Moronke Harris: PhD Student in Oceanography
2022 | University of Victoria 2023-24 Graduate Viewbook, front page
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Building Community from Ship to Shore Through Ocean Exploration
2022 | New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration, pg. 18
The 2021 E/V Nautilus expedition season had a very successful year in education and outreach with the return of our signature programs, including at-sea experiences for educators and students and interactive streaming experiences with the onboard expedition teams. Ship-to-shore interactions connect communities and classrooms with explorer role models like scientist Adrienne Shumlich (left) and Ocean Science Intern Moronke Harris (right).
US and Russian scientists are still working together to solve salmon mysteries
March 3, 2022 | Alaska Public Media
Tensions continue to simmer between Moscow and Washington, D.C., in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Oil companies are canceling partnerships with Russian firms. State legislators are calling for the state’s sovereign wealth fund to dump Russian investments. President Joe Biden announced Tuesday the U.S. would close its airspace to Russian aircraft. But the United States and Russia are still working together on at least one issue: salmon.
Canadian vessels sail from Island to find out what's happening to salmon amid climate change
February 19, 2022 | Times Colonist
Two vessels from Vancouver Island, Sir John Franklin and Raw Spirit, are joining an international scientific expedition.
International fleet studying North Pacific salmon populations
January 31, 2022 | National Fisherman
The largest ever ecosystem survey of salmon across the North Pacific is bringing together 60 scientists from five nations and a flotilla of four research vessels to learn more about “increasingly extreme climate variability” and its effects on salmon survival, scientists say.
International research team to probe salmon mysteries in North Pacific
January 28, 2022 | Seattle Times
An international team of more than 60 scientists on four vessels is headed out on rough winter seas to investigate West Coast and Alaska salmon in the North Pacific.
Salmon science expedition launching
January 26, 2022 | TriCity News
Scientists to ply North Pacific to study salmon and their environment.
Remotely operated vehicles recovered from seafloor after breaking free
Sep 3, 2021 | Times Colonist
Two errant remotely operated vehicles have been successfully recovered after breaking loose from their tethering cable two kilometres below the ocean surface southwest of Vancouver Island.
Pumping Up Cold Water From Deep Within the Ocean to Halt Coral Bleaching
September 26, 2020 | SciTechDaily
New research shows that pulses of cooler deep water reduced heat stress responses in corals.
"Artificial upwelling" could help save coral reefs
September 17, 2020 | New Atlas
Coral bleaching occurs when corals are stressed by high water temperatures and other factors, causing them to expel the symbiotic algae living within them. Given that fact, scientists are now looking into saving reefs by pumping up cool water from the ocean's depths.
Can pumping up cold water from deep within the ocean halt coral bleaching?
September 16, 2020 | ScienceDaily
Rising ocean temperatures cause marine heat waves, which place stress on living coral animals, as well as the photosynthetic algae on which they depend for energy. A new study is showing potential for the use of artificial upwelling (AU)-- or the application of cooler, deep water -- as a way to mitigate the thermal stress on corals.
June 2020 | Currents: Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
During the summer of 2018, Moronke Harris, then an undergraduate student at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, completed a research internship at BIOS with support from the Canadian Associates of BIOS (CABIOS). Over the course of three months she worked with BIOS reef ecologist Yvonne Sawall on a project investigating the effectiveness of a geo-engineering process called artificial upwelling in preventing coral bleaching due to rising water temperatures.
BIOS Scientists Gather for Ocean Sciences Meeting
March 2020 | Currents: Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
The biennial Ocean Sciences meeting in California this February drew participants from 60 countries and brought together representatives from BIOS including Moronke Harris (left), Jordan Wingate and Amy Maas (center), and James Hilditch.
Expedition to probe Pacific salmon survival
February 16, 2020 | Times Colonist
An international scientific expedition aimed at unlocking the hows and whys of Pacific salmon survival in the Gulf of Alaska amid fears for their future is sailing out of Victoria in March.
