The Consortium for Ocean Leadership held a workshop in October on Sound In The Sea: Building A Cross-Sector Consensus On Gaps In Science. Cynthia Pyć, Senior Manager of Environmental Science & Sustainability at JASCO Applied Sciences, was invited as an independent panelist. JASCO also provided major sponsorship of the event, which brought together a diverse group of delegates from the USA and Canada.

On 16 May the Halifax, NS headquarters of JASCO Applied Sciences hosted a workshop attended by researchers from Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Dalhousie University to plan a coordinated effort to analyze whale calls in data that will be collected this summer as part of an unprecedented survey of marine mammals off Atlantic Canada. CBC News covered the workshop in broadcast and on-line articles about the search for the elusive northern right whale, which is one of the key mission objectives of the survey.