Maureen Vo, BSc
NoiseTracker Coordinator (Outreach and education)
Maureen has worn many hats since joining Raincoast in 2016. She initially joined as the Education Coordinator to pilot the Salish Sea Emerging Stewards Program and simultaneously continued to build capacity and develop programs for Raincoast through her role as Development Coordinator. Currently, she is now the NoiseTracker Coordinator and working to pilot a BC coast-wide collaborative initiative amongst underwater acoustic data gatherers to create an integrated and comprehensive map-based noise visualization system on a centralized platform that will help inform policy and management decisions to reduce underwater noise impacts on marine life.
Her multidisciplinary work and experiences have allowed her to truly understand and value the power of collaboration and weaving different knowledge systems together, which she applies to all her work.
Maureen completed an interdisciplinary master’s degree in marine biology and computer engineering from the University of Montreal. She is mostly found outdoors wandering through coastal forests and exploring the ocean and its inhabitants through boating, sailing, and now freediving.
Recent articles
Wolf home range and travel distances
Range size varies widely depending on factors like prey density,…
The social and cultural lives of belugas
Exploring beluga sociality and culture through the lens of behaviourial…
Effects of boat- and land-based ecotourism on bears
This body of evidence will help guide ecotourism and conservation.
New scientific review highlights the complex and culturally rich social lives of belugas
Belugas live in multilevel, dynamic societies shaped by kinship, sex,…
The grizzly hunt is no way to solve conflict between humans and bears
Grizzlies involved in conflict and those killed by hunters are…
The utility of science
Grizzlies don’t go looking for conflict. And conflict cannot be…