Published scientific literature
Raincoast is a team of scientists and conservationists that undertake primary research and publishes peer-reviewed science to inform our conservation objectives. As an evidence-based, conservation science organisation (science ENGO), that operates a research lab, research field station and a research/sailing vessel, we are unique in Canada.
Investigate. Inform. Inspire.
Raincoast’s in-house scientists, collaborating graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professors make us unique among conservation groups. We work with First Nations, academic institutions, government and other NGOs to gather information and build support for decisions that protect marine and terrestrial ecosystems, their components and processes. We conduct applied, process-oriented, and hypothesis-driven research that has immediate and relevant utility for the conservation debate and the collective body of scientific knowledge.
Peer-reviewed science publications
Mapping thermal refuges: Identifying critical cooling centres for salmon in the Coldwater River
The high price of motherhood in Northern Resident killer whales
New scientific review highlights the complex and culturally rich social lives of belugas
The need for renewed federal commitment to The Wild Salmon Policy
New research: Determining the sex of whales via environmental DNA samples
New study reveals pathways to transform conflict over contentious salmon and killer whale management in B.C.
A watershed based approach to assessing water quality in Cheakamus/Green River watersheds
New research highlights important routes to spawning salmon for coastal bears
Too loud to talk? Belugas tune in to ultrasonic channels
DNA from dives: Species detection of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) from flukeprint eDNA
Ecotourism did not predispose grizzly bears to subsequent conflict
Salmon DNA enables new understanding of how young Chinook salmon use the Fraser River Estuary
