Conservation Science Isn’t Always Fieldwork: And that’s a blessing too
PhD student, Lauren Eckert, pondering in the Raincoast ACS Lab. A quick Google search of the term “wildlife biologist” or…
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Four months of learning
Bryant DeRoy presents key COMPASS workshop take-aways at our annual lab retreat. As the days become shorter, the campus hustle…
Groundwork
A black bear forages in the estuary. Photo: Lauren Henson. As modern scientists, we frequently deal in abstraction. We are…
Fun with the Salish Sea’s newest Emerging Stewards
Members of the Raincoast ACS lab and W̱SÁNEĆ Leadership Secondary School gathered around the freshly installed “bear hair snare.” Photo by:…
Searching for sentinels at the top of the world
A mountain goat tucked away in the rocks in Kitasoo/Xai’xais territory. Photo: Kim Poole. White on white is hard to…
Today in International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day. February 11th likewise celebrated women – in particular, Women and Girls in the Sciences. As…
Discussion with a dataset
Like many of you, I am always pleased to go out and observe nature and wildlife. As a child, I…
Field dreams
Above image: 2018 Kitasoo/Xai’xais biocultural survey crew including Vern Brown, Santana Edgar, Stephen Neasloss, Sarein Basi-Primeau, Chantal Pronteau, Rosie Child, Sam…
From field to lab – preparing 2018 bear hair for stable isotope analysis
Above image: The prepared samples (tin capsules filled with ~3mm of hair) ready to be sent for analysis. Each sample…
An Atnarko autumn: piloting grizzly bear behavioural research with BC Parks and the Nuxalk Nation
Above image: An Atnarko Autumn. At this time of year, when the sun makes brief appearances between coastal mountain peaks,…
Converging Knowledges to Inform and Empower Conservation
This past summer, I had the opportunity to travel aboard the Raincoast vessel Achiever with several other members of the…
Advancing non-invasive approaches for monitoring wildlife: considering the ethics of developing new techniques
Image: Analysis of hormones in hair has been used to investigate many different ecological questions, including those that have implications…