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Electronic copies of select pieces of coverage below are available by contacting the Research Program Coordinator. Explore press highlights from years past from the archive link at the bottom of this page.
April 1, 2010
Discovery Channel
Shannon Balfry of the Seymour Salmonid Society, and POST's own Jonathan Thar, explain how the Seymour hatchery is using acoustic tracking to explore ways of improving returns of steelhead to North Vancouver's Seymour Hatchery (begins 3:07 into the clip).
November 13, 2009
The Economist
Introducing the transparent ocean
POST is referenced in this article appearing in The Economist's special issue "The World In 2010", on the massive 10-year efforts of the first Census of Marine Life culminating in October 2010.
October 9, 2009
CBCnews.ca; CBC TV - Vancouver at 6; CBC Radio One - World Report
BC squid beachings baffle scientists
POST's Staff Scientist, John Payne, describes recent work by POST colleagues to acoustically tag Humboldt squid, and how results from the tagging might help explain their movement into BC waters and subsequent strandings on the West Coast of Vancouver Island.
October 4, 2009
National Geographic Radio - NG Weekend
Jim Bolger, POST's Executive Director, is interviewed by Boyd Matson, Host of National Geographic Weekend. The conversation ebbs and flows around the Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project and our contributions to the international Census of Marine Life.
Listen to the interview (5MB download of an 8min mp3)...
September 25, 2009
Kitsap Sun
Researchers Wondering Why Jumbo Squid Suddenly Moved North
Outlines the reasons behind a pilot study conducted by POST's colleagues from Stanford, NOAA and WDFW who acoustically tagged for the first time two dozen jumbo, or Humboldt squid, off the Olympic Peninsula, WA.
August 12, 2009
Discover Magazine
Field Notes: Stalking Fish in the Name of Science
The column highlights POST and the Census of Marine Life, through the story of Dave Sobel's (celebrated author of Longitude) visit to Cordova, AK, where our collaborators at the Prince William Sound Science Center introduced her to their lingcod tracking research in Port Gravina.
May 31, 2009
North Shore News
A new front in the fight to save steelhead
Highlights work by the Seymour Salmonid Society, who recently released 150 acoustically tagged hatchery steelhead, to be tracked as part of a multi-year strategic study using POST.
April 22, 2009
World Fishing Network
Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project for WFN Green
As part of a series celebrating Earth Week, the World Fishing Network highlights POST as a technology effecting the conservation of marine animals for their series WFN Green.
January 7, 2009
ABC 7 News San Francisco
System tracks Pacific salmon's whereabouts
POST is featured in a fantastic TV news piece on salmon and sturgeon conservation work performed by biologists based at NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center's Fisheries Ecology Division in Santa Cruz, CA.