Not-for-profit initiative launching state-of-the-art ocean technology [Video]

SuperNOVA, a not-for-profit initiative of Dalhousie University, will deploy state-of-the-art ocean monitoring technology in Bras d’Or Lake on Oct. 4 to integrate STEM education year-round at Mi’kmawey Elementary School in Potlotek First Nation.

Ebony Demers, a program coordinator at SuperNOVA, says the buoy launch is part of a program that aims to empower youth to understand their connection to the ocean and climate change and how to see themselves and their communities fit into the global ecosystem.

“We worked really closely with Mi’kmaw Kina’matnewey which is an organization that represents and advocates for the educational interests of the communities. With them we built a program that uses this buoy to collect ocean data near the community and then we combine that western science with local indigenous knowledge,” said Demers in an interview with CTV’s Crystal Garrett on Friday.

There are solar panels around the side of the buoy, so it …