Rylan Command, lead author from Memorial University and UVic Faculty of Science alumni, joins the program to discuss a recently observed change in behaviour of deep-sea fragile pink sea urchins off the south coast of Vancouver Island that is linked to climate change impacts including a marine heatwave that persisted in the Pacific Ocean off North America between 2013 to 2016. 

IMAGE: Deep-sea fragile pink sea urchins, Strongylocentrotus fragilis, captured by the Barkley Canyon Upper Slope observatory camera.

Credit: Ocean Networks Canada