Balad’EAU is proud to present a special series of podcasts developed in collaboration with the How to Protect the Ocean podcast and Ocean Networks Canada (ONC):
🌊 Surfacing Secrets – Explore the Ocean. Understand the Planet.
🎙️ This new series takes you behind the scenes of ocean innovation, with powerful stories, exclusive testimonials, and immersive narration designed to reveal the secrets of the seabed and those who explore it.
Surfacing secrets: Explore the ocean. Know the planet
We start off strong with the thrilling story of ONC’s beginnings—a time when connecting the ocean floor to the Internet was just a dream. In this episode, our hosts Lyne Morissette and Andrew Lewin brings you the voices of three founding figures, pioneers whose vision transformed modern ocean science:
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Kate Moran, President and CEO of ONC
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John Delaney, visionary oceanographer
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Benoit Pirenne, ONC’s Chief Science Officer
In this exciting episode of Ocean Expeditions, Balad’EAU takes you on an unforgettable journey into the depths of the ocean, where we explore the challenges of ocean exploration with Ocean Networks Canada (ONC). Host Lyne Morissette guides us through the mysteries of ocean expeditions and the innovative technologies behind them. Join us as we discuss the difficulties of deploying sensors in the ocean—why, despite covering 70% of our planet, so little of the ocean has been explored. This episode delves into the science, technology, and teamwork that fuel these groundbreaking missions, with exclusive insights from:
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Meghan Paulson, Executive Director of Observatory Operations at ONC
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Dirk Brussow, Director of Observatory Physical Operations at ONC
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Josh Tetarenko, Director of ROV Operations at CanPac Marine, a Canadian marine services company
Released for Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, this episode invites us to listen and learn from the strength of Indigenous knowledge—and the partnerships that unite science and tradition.
At Ocean Networks Canada (ONC), collaboration with Indigenous communities isn’t just a project—it’s a way of working. From community-led monitoring to youth engagement, ONC helps weave traditional knowledge and ocean science together to better understand and protect our shared waters.
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Ken Paul – Wolastoqey leader and advocate for Indigenous rights in ocean governance
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Pieter Romer – Indigenous Community Liaison at ONC, storyteller, and documentary filmmaker
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Maia Hoeberechts – Associate Director of Learning & Engagement at ONC
In this inspiring episode of Surfacing Secrets, Balad’EAU dives into the powerful connection between art and science with Ocean Networks Canada (ONC).
Host Lyne Morissette explores how creativity and research intertwine through the stories of three remarkable guests:
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Parvin Hassani, an Iranian sculptor who transforms ocean science and memory into art;
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Dennis Guppa, a Filipino theatre director whose work Gossip with Whales gives voice to climate and community; and
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Dwight Owens, the connector behind ONC’s Art–Science Fellowship, building bridges between researchers and artists around the world.
Together, they reveal how curiosity flows like water—linking minds, cultures, and disciplines—and how, when art meets science, connection itself becomes a work of art.
In this captivating episode of Surfacing Secrets, Balad’EAU takes you deep beneath the Pacific Ocean to the Endeavour hydrothermal vent field, one of the most active and closely observed places on the planet, monitored by Ocean Networks Canada (ONC).
Host Lyne Morissette guides listeners into a world where geology, chemistry, and life collide in total darkness — and where continuous observation is changing how we understand the deep ocean.
This episode explores why Endeavour is a rare place scientists don’t just visit, but watch over time, revealing processes that short expeditions can’t capture. You’ll hear insights from:
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Laurence Coogan, geochemist and professor at the University of Victoria; and
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Steve Mihaly, senior staff scientist at Ocean Networks Canada
Together, they show how staying put in the deep ocean is key to understanding how our planet really works.
In this thought-provoking episode of Surfacing Secrets, Balad’EAU explores how scientific discoveries actually happen at Ocean Networks Canada (ONC). Host Lyne Morissette takes listeners inside the world of long-term observation, where curiosity, continuous data, and a willingness to follow the unexpected turn observations into discovery. This episode looks at how ONC creates the conditions for discovery — from marine heatwaves and ecosystem health to solar storms and seafloor dynamics — and why looking for the weird is often where science moves forward. You’ll hear insights from:
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Richard Dewey, oceanographer and former Science Director at ONC;
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Kohen Bauer, Science Director of ONC, working at the intersection of ocean data, tools, and models;
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Gwyn Lintern, an early ONC collaborator now with Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Together, they reveal how discovery is less about single breakthroughs — and more about staying curious, staying connected, and paying attention long enough for the ocean to surprise us.
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