Collaboration is at the heart of CoastConnect. By drawing on the shared wisdom and expertise of Indigenous communities, researchers, practitioners, and agencies, the platform ensures a collaborative approach to managing and monitoring our marine environment—where knowledge flows both ways, and solutions are grounded in real-world needs.
Collaboration in Action
Through the development of CoastConnect, the Hakai Institute supported a student-centred internship program in partnership with the Council of the Haida Nation (CHN) to support the coastal marine planning and management activities of CHN. As part of this work, interns assisted CHN staff with data entry and management for CHN’s marine invasive species monitoring program, which monitors for invasive tunicates and other invasive species at various locations around Haida Gwaii.
