Connect with the monitoring networks along our coastline through this page. Each of these networks is comprised of organizations which aim to support one another in accomplishing shared monitoring goals. Learn more about each below.
Monitoring Networks
The Kelp Node is a growing cross-boundary network of kelp practitioners composed of First Nations stewards, researchers, managers, policy makers, educators, and citizen scientists. The Kelp Node aims to build a roadmap for expanding kelp ecosystem planning and conservation in the Pacific Northwest, through work groups that are organized to address specific actions linking data standards, methodologies and participative science of policy and management for kelp ecosystems.
MaPP
The Marine Plan Partnership for the North Pacific Coast (MaPP) is a collaborative ocean planning initiative between the Province of British Columbia and 17 coastal First Nations that has developed and is implementing marine use plans for the North Pacific Coast of British Columbia. MaPP uses an ecosystem-based management approach combining Indigenous knowledge, scientific data, and stakeholder input to guide sustainable economic development, stewardship of marine ecosystems, and coordinated decision-making.
Great Bear Sea Marine Protected Area Network
The Great Bear Sea MPA Network is a collaborative ocean conservation initiative along the northern coast of British Columbia that connects multiple marine protected areas into a coordinated network. Led by a partnership of 17 First Nations, the Province of British Columbia and the Government of Canada, the Network integrates Indigenous knowledge and western science to guide marine stewardship and long-term ecosystem health.
MONITR: Marine Observation Network Inventory TRacker
MONITR will provide a platform to gather metadata on coastal observations in a centralized, accessible, and visual way to serve the evolving needs of management and stewardship on the BC coast. Marine observers can upload their metadata – the “who, what, where” of their monitoring projects – contributing to an observing network, presented as a map that can be filtered by project, region, ecosystem, or species.