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Welcome to the ACS Lab!
The Bear Project
The Bear Project is a long-term, Indigenous led research projected conducted by the Applied Conservation Science Lab.
Braving the Seas
After a week of studying and examinations, we three scientists hit the water to put our new skills to the…
On this International Women’s Day
Dear future woman* in science, Today (and everyday) we’re committed to celebrating you! It isn’t always easy, but you’re equipped…
Equitably Bridging Knowledges through Etuaptmumk (“Two-Eyed Seeing”)
Increasingly, wildlife and fisheries researchers and managers are called to “bridge” or “integrate” Indigenous knowledge systems with Western scientific approaches…
ACS Lab project featured on CBC’s The Nature of Things
In June 2021, I joined Dallas Smith, president of Nanwakolas Council, in Da’naxda’xw Awaetlala territory to discuss developments of the…
A collapsing jenga tower and the keystone species solution
Search any living room or board game cafe and you are likely to find a Jenga tower lying somewhere on…
Science is still better together
The ACS 2021 Lab Retreat in Port Renfrew, British Columbia.
Indigenous Knowledge, Western Science, and their interaction: Rich opportunity but caution to avoid harm is required
Despite these historical and ongoing problems, there is a growing awareness within scientific communities of the validity and power of…
A gentle man & scholar – Dr. Michael Soulé
Our senior mentor, Paul Paquet, texted this morning to let me know that Michael Soulé had died. Earlier this week,…
Black Lives Matter
As Conservation Scientists in the Applied Conservation Science Lab, we acknowledge the pervasive racial and socioeconomic disparities and systems of…
Working from home… during a pandemic
Melanie displays, ‘Bears on computer screens, for when we can’t see them in the field’ while working from home during…