COLC in the News

COLC in the News

Below are links to recent media, articles, blogs, or newsletters featuring COLC’s work, as well as important national and international ocean literacy-related news and announcements. 

 

Have an ocean literacy news story to share? We would love to hear it! You can share them with us at roxanne@colcoalition.ca

Ocean Week Canada 2023

June 1, 2024

Ocean Week Canada 2024 press release

May 30, 2024

Education and Experiences Transform our Relationship with the Ocean

May 1, 2024

Innovating Canada –
Our Water & Ocean

March 2024

World Ocean Day Partner Spotlight: Ocean Week Canada 2022 

March 2022

The COLC’s National Lead, Diz Glithero, serves on Canada’s Community of Champions for the Decade

April 2022

COLC wins Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation in Research for National Strategy work 

Dec 2, 2021

Sea Beyond: The Case for Ocean Literacy in Canada

March 2021

THINKING OUT LOUD WITH SHELDON MacLEOD: Ocean literacy and Dal’s Diz Glithero

Nov 23, 2021

Globe and Mail: Leaders share their views on what’s important for the future of the ocean

June 10, 2021

Dal researcher wins Mitacs award for leading the development of the world’s first national ocean literacy strategy

Nov 24, 2021

Ocean Literacy—A Critical Need for Canada

June 8, 2021

Oceans under stress need our protection

June 7, 2021

The Canadian Ocean Literacy Coalition launches Land, Water, Ocean, Us: A Canadian Ocean Literacy Strategy

Mar 16, 2021

Delphi Group highlights COLC’s National Strategy work in their recent report ‘Scaling Up the Blue Economy’

January 2021

COLC’s National Lead, Diz Glithero, is awarded the Alex Trebek Medal for Geographic Literacy from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society

November 2020

Ocean Literacy Seed Fund Success Story

September 2020

Contributing publications

Ocean literacy research community: co-identifying gaps and priorities to advance the UN Ocean Decade

Nov 5, 2024

Human-ocean relationships: Exploring alignment and collaboration between ocean literacy research and marine conservation

Nov 2024

A transdisciplinary co- conceptualisation of marine identity

Jul 10, 2023

Ocean Decade Vision 2030 White Papers

Jul, 2024

Venice declaration for ocean literacy in action

June 2024

Majority of Canadians strongly agree or agree that ocean health is important to them…

Jan, 2024