recent oceantech news
Dal Lands $15M for Ocean Acidity Study
Dalhousie University’s Ocean Alk-align research program, which is studying how to make the world’s oceans more alkaline, has received almost $15 million from the Carbon to Sea Initiative.
Katja Fennel, an oceanographer with Dalhousie, will lead a
NATO Accelerator Readies Innovation Challenges
NATO's new Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic, for which Halifax is bidding to be the North American host city, is seeking applicants for a trio of innovation challenges for sensor and surveillance tech, secure communications and
COVE, Thales Name Digital Dockyard Winners
The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship and Thales Canada have announced the winners of their Digital Dockyard naval innovation challenge: St. John’s-based CORSphere and Toronto’s Datifex.
CORSphere sells marine fleet
COVE to Host Demo Day Wednesday
The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, or COVE, will host its annual Demo Day on Wednesday, with bluetech companies demonstrating their innovations off the facility’s dock.
The event will include 17 exhibiting companies
Lab2Market Oceans Seeks Applicants
Memorial University and the Ocean Startup Project are calling for applications to their Lab2Market Oceans accelerator.
The program, part of a national group of accelerators, is aimed at helping academic researchers in the oceans space commercialize
Cascadia Launches Fertilizer Product
Just in time for World Oceans Day, Sidney, B.C.-based Cascadia Seaweed is launching its first agricultural product — a kelp-based fertilizer dubbed ReFeed Seaweed Extract and released under a partnership with innovation hub ReFeed Canada.
The
OECD Says MUN Benefits Ocean Economy
Memorial University is benefiting Newfoundland and Labrador's ocean economy through research, teaching and public engagement, says a recent report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The organization, which comprises 38
CDL Atlantic Announces 20 Graduate Companies
Dalhousie University’s CDL Atlantic, part of the internationally noted Creative Destruction Lab network of startup accelerators, has announced the companies graduating from this year’s Oceans cohort for bluetech companies and its Prime cohort for
NZE Joins Bluetech Boost Accelerator
Halifax’s Net-Zero Edge, or NZE, is joining the 10-week Bluetech Boost accelerator from Gulf of Maine Ventures, the investment arm of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute oceantech hub in Portland, Maine.
Founded last year by blue economy veteran
Launching our 2022 Canadian Oceantech Report
If there was a singular achievement of Canada’s oceantech startup community in 2022, it was that it truly became a national community.
Today, we are releasing our 2022 Canadian Oceantech Data Report, our second analysis of the country’s bluetech
MUN Opens The Launch
Memorial University’s Fisheries and Marine Institute this week officially opened the long-awaited marine research lab The Launch in an oceanside location in Holyrood, about 50 kilometers from St. John’s.
The Launch -- formerly known as the Holyrood
ACOA Funds 4 Cleantech Startups
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency has announced about $2.8 million worth of loans for a quartet of cleantech startups, including Halifax’s Graphite Innovations & Technology, or GIT, which last month closed a $10.2 million series A funding