{"id":74496,"date":"2021-10-07T09:12:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T13:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=74496"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:49","slug":"blythe-wabnitz-pickering-baird-nash-and-bennett-virtual-reality-may-help-us-develop-empathy-for-oceans-and-marine-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/10\/blythe-wabnitz-pickering-baird-nash-and-bennett-virtual-reality-may-help-us-develop-empathy-for-oceans-and-marine-life\/","title":{"rendered":"BLYTHE, WABNITZ, PICKERING, BAIRD, NASH and BENNETT: Virtual reality may help us develop empathy for oceans and marine life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jessica Blythe, Assistant Professor in Brock University\u2019s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre; Gary Pickering, Professor of Biological Sciences and Psychology at Brock; Julia Baird, Assistant Professor in Brock\u2019s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre; Colette Wabnitz, Research Associate in the Institute for Oceans and Fisheries at University of British Columbia; Kirsty Nash, Research Fellow in Marine Ecology at University of Tasmania; and Nathan Bennett, Research Associate in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at University of British Columbia, had a piece recently published in The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about the possibility of fostering empathy for the world\u2019s oceans through virtual reality.<\/p>\n

They write:<\/p>\n

\u201cHundreds of kilometres from shore, and covering two-thirds of the Earth\u2019s surface, the high seas are a world that few of us will ever see. After more than a year in the field, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Urbina concluded: \u201cThere are few remaining frontiers on our planet. Perhaps the wildest, and the least understood, are the world\u2019s oceans.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Governed by no single country or authority, the high seas represent a\u00a0literal and figurative final frontier. And in this age of information \u2014\u00a0where we can access livestreams from Mars, for example\u00a0\u2014 we know shockingly little about the ocean.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The race for oceanic resources<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite being inaccessible to many, the world\u2019s oceans are under an extraordinary set of pressures.\u00a0Climate change and industrial overfishing\u00a0remain the most critical threats \u2014 they undermine the oceans\u2019 capacity to provide nutritious food and fulfilling livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people.<\/em><\/p>\n

At the same time, new players are turning towards the oceans as a source of economic growth. The ocean economy is projected to double from\u00a0US$1.5 trillion in 2010 to US$3 trillion by 2030.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jessica Blythe, Assistant Professor in Brock University\u2019s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre; Gary Pickering, Professor of Biological Sciences and Psychology at Brock; Julia Baird, Assistant Professor in Brock\u2019s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre; Colette Wabnitz, Research Associate in the Institute for Oceans and Fisheries at University of British Columbia; Kirsty Nash, Research Fellow in Marine Ecology at University of Tasmania; and Nathan Bennett, Research Associate in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at University of British Columbia, had a piece recently published in The Conversation about the possibility of fostering empathy for the world\u2019s oceans through virtual reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,41,38],"tags":[296,2262,348,522,3457,7417,4316,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74507,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74496\/revisions\/74507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}