MEOPAR
MEOPAR's acronym stands for this full name.
What is the Marine Environmental Observation, Prediction and Response Network?
Rather than chewing its food, this marine animal everts its stomach through its mouth to digest prey outside its body.
What is a sea star (starfish)?
This Canadian singer released the album Jagged Little Pill.
Who is Alanis Morissette?
This resident marine mammal is commonly seen in the Salish Sea and is one of BC's most iconic species.
What is an orca (killer whale)?
This process occurs when the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, helping regulate Earth's climate.
What is ocean acidification?
This annual event celebrates Canada's oceans each June, and MEOPAR is a regular participant.
What is Ocean Week Canada?
This marine mammal sleeps with one half of its brain at a time so it can continue breathing.
What are dolphins?
This province has the highest population of polygamist Mormans in Canada.
What is British Columbia?
British Columbia is Canada's leading producer of this popular berry.
What are blueberries?
This major Atlantic circulation system transports heat northward and is often described as part of the "ocean conveyor belt."
What is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)?
MEOPAR's current strategic plan covers these years.
What is 2025–2030?
The largest living structure on Earth built by animals.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
Neil Young's 1972 album featuring "Heart of Gold" shares its name with this natural phenomenon.
What is Harvest?
This famous hiking trail stretches 75 km along Vancouver Island's rugged west coast.
What is the West Coast Trail?
This ecosystem stores large amounts of carbon in coastal environments and includes mangroves, salt marshes and seagrass meadows.
What is blue carbon?
MEOPAR’s work supports research across Canada's three ocean regions, which one has the longest coastline?
What is the Arctic Ocean?
This cephalopod has three hearts and blue blood.
What is an octopus?
This type of ecosystem, once widespread in coastal British Columbia, was intentionally maintained by Indigenous peoples for a food produced by a flower.
What are camas meadows (or garry oak ecosystems)?
This stretchy clothing company started in Vancouver, BC.
What is Lululemon?
These drifting instruments measure ocean conditions such as temperature and salinity and are part of a global observing network.
What are Argo floats?
You get this number when you add up the CLR Seed Fund and Early-Career Researcher Award recipients who received funding in 2026.
What is 35?
The immortal jellyfish can repeatedly return to this earlier life stage instead of dying from old age.
What is the polyp stage?
This province boasts towns called Blow Me Down, Come by Chance and Goobies.
What is Newfoundland and Labrador?
This rainforest on Vancouver Island is one of the largest remaining temperate rainforests in the world.
What is Pacific Rim National Park Reserve (or the Clayoquot Sound temperate rainforest)?
This event caused a massive decline in Pacific salmon populations and was linked to unusually warm ocean conditions in the North Pacific.
What is the Blob?