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Shaping the Future of Marine Research Together.

The Pacific Rim Initiative for Sustainable Marine Systems (PRISMS) aims to develop an interdisciplinary ocean research network based in Western Canada.

This initiative brings together researchers from engineering, science, and social science to advance marine research that addresses the urgent challenges facing Canada’s and the world’s oceans.

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First Nations land acknowledegement

The PRISMS research excellence cluster acknowledges that our work takes place on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

Pacific Rim Initiative for Sustainable Marine Systems

163 - 2366 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
E-mail ubc.prisms@ubc.ca

Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver are funded through the Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters program.

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