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MEDIA

Documentaries

Documentaries
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Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival: Silent Sanctuary

2025

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ReWork your Future: Episode 3 - Three Restoration Efforts Healing Canada's Ecosystems

2025

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APTN TV: WaterWorlds - Episode 6 - Forest of the Sea

2025

Articles

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2025

SHE Changes Climate: Jasmin Schuster - A Kelp Researcher’s Mission to Reverse a 95% Underwater Forest Loss

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2024

Peace Arch News: B.C.’s kelp forests are declining, but scientists are fighting back

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2024

CBC: Underwater gardeners work to restore B.C.'s crucial kelp forests

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2024

Canadian Climate Institute: Three generational conversation on the importance of q’am' (kelp) forests

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2024

National Observer: Why researchers are racing to restore B.C.'s kelp forests

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2024

Victoria News: University of Victoria, coastal First Nations aiming to restore kelp forests

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2024

Climate Champions: Connie’s Story: Preserving the magic of the kelp forests with a mix of Indigenous knowledge and science

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2024

Time Colonist: Underwater gardeners work to restore majestic kelp forests off Vancouver Island

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2023

Vista Radio: Ocean Heatwave and Possible Super El Nino Take Us Into Uncharted Waters

Articles

Podcasts

2024

Podcasts

Interviews

2024

2024

On The Island (CBC): Live Interview with Jason D'Souza and Dr. Baum on DFO AERF Grant

2024

CKNW: Live Interview with Jill Bennet and Dr. Baum on DFO AERF Grant

2024

Ha Shilth Sa Newspaper: Dr. Schuster and Dr. Rogers on DFO AERF Grant

2023

2023

On The Island (CBC): Brian Timmer on Salish sea Temperatures

2023

Chek News: Northeastern Salish Sea temperatures boiling kelp alive

Interviews

Press Releases

2024

2024

Oceanbites Out Loud: Genomics; Kelp Forest Imaging For Research and Monitoring

2024

DFO Appearance: DFO AERF Press Release; Protecting coastal aquatic ecosystems in British Columbia through important restoration work

2024

University of Victoria: DFO AERF Press Release; Restoring climate-resilient kelp forests

Press Releases

Conferences and Symposiums

2025

The Kelp Rescue Initiative - Three Years of Kelp Restoration and Research in British Columbia, Canada

Jasmin Schuster

Eastern Pacific Kelp Recovery (EPaK) Workshop

2025

Kelp forest restoration successes and roadblocks: insights from the Kelp Rescue Initiative’s first three years

Jasmin Schuster

PSF Kelp Symposium

2025

Restoring climate-resilient kelp forests in British Columbia

Lauren Dykman

PSF Kelp Symposium

2025

Conservation genomics of bull and giant kelp in BC and Washington

Jordan Bemmels

PSF Kelp Symposium

2025

Comparing associated biodiversity at bull kelp restoration and reference sites in sə̓ilw̓ət (Burrard Inlet)

Cammie Good and Olivia Rhoades

PSF Kelp Symposium

2025

Some just like rock, some like it cold: Examining the influence of environment on Salish Sea kelp forest distribution and composition

Matt Csordas

PSF Kelp Symposium

2025

2024

Gametoglue: a new approach to direct seeding for kelp restoration

Maisie Roy-Musor

PSA-ISOP-ISEP Joint Meeting

2024

Kelp distributions and diversity in a region of high environmental heterogeneity.

Matt Csordas

CSEE 2024

2024

Population and conservation genomics of bull and giant kelp: genetic risks of inbreeding in small populations

Jordan Bemmels

Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE)

2024

Developing Knowledge-based Solutions to Restore BC’s Kelp Forest Ecosystems

Brian Timmer, Chris Neufeld

Coastal Zone Canada Conference

2024

Collaborative kelp program in the Broughton Region

Romina Barbosa

Coastal Zone Canada Conference

2024

Conservation genomics of bull and giant kelp in BC and Washington

Jordan Bemmels

North American Congress for Conservation Biology (NACCB)

2024

The Kelp Rescue Initiative - overview of kelp restoration and research in British Columbia

Jasmin Schuster, Lauren Dykman

KRI Kelp Genomics Symposium

2024

Culturing kelp for research and restoration

Clay Steell

KRI Kelp Genomics Symposium

2024

Population genomics of bull and giant kelp in BC and Washington

Jordan Bemmels

KRI Kelp Genomics Symposium

2024

Buliding a kelp reference genome

Eric Gonzalez

KRI Kelp Genomics Symposium

2024

Seascape genomics to study climate adaptation of kelp forests

Fernando Hernandez

KRI Kelp Genomics Symposium

2024

Kelp habitat suitability distribution in the Broughton Archipelago, BC

Romina Barbosa

PSA-ISOP-ISEP Joint Meeting

2024

Kelp forest restoration successes & roadblocks: insights from the Kelp Rescue Initiative’s first 2 years

Clay Steell

PSA-ISOP-ISEP Joint Meeting

2024

Climate Change in the Ocean with a focus on Impacts and Solutions in the Canadian Nearshore

Matt Csordas

LCOY Canada

2024

Modeling BC Kelp Forest Distributions in a Changing Climate

Matt Csordas

MaPP EBM

2024

Collaborative Exploration of Novel Bull Kelp Restoration Techniques

Cammie Good, Jasmin Schuster, Cora den Hartigh and Lindsey Ogsten

NbSC Workshop

2024

Evidence of local adaptation in bull kelp under extreme warming

Lauren Dykman

Western Society of Naturalists Conference

2024

Testing the roles of local adaptation and genetic diversity to improve giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) restoration

Lauren Dykman

Society for Ecological Restoration

2024

2023

Population genomics for kelp conservation in BC and Washington (poster)

Jordan Bemmels

Evolution - Washington, Idaho, British Columbia, and Oregon (EVO-WIBO)

2023

Green gravel as a technique to restore kelp forest ecosystems threatened by climate change

Lauren Dykman

Ecological Society of America

2023

Kelp forests in a warming ocean: Understanding the past, present, and future of kelp forests in British Columbia

Brian Timmer

The International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries

2023

Kelp ecology and restoration strategies in a changing ocean

Clay Steell

Burrard Inlet Kelp Restoration Symposium

2023

2022

Quantifying changes in Postelsia palmaeformis distribution along the south-western coast of Vancouver Island.

Matt Csordas

Pacific Ecology and Evolution Conference (PEEC)

2022

The Kelp Rescue Initiative: Using science to restore resilient kelp forest ecosystems on B.C.’s coasts.

Chris Neufeld

Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference

2022

Conferences and Symposiums
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