The hope I felt hearing Carney speak at Davos lasted all of 3 weeks. The sign is still up and doesn’t seem to be coming down anytime soon.

New federal infrastructure support accelerates Dal’s climate and digital research capacity Dal research teams are receiving more than $7.3M in Canada Foundation for Innovation support to expand labs and tools driving breakthroughs in water resilience, ocean science, marine tracking, and dig...

Big news! A major investment through the Canada Foundation for Innovation will support the renewal and upgrade of key OTN infrastructure—enhancing tracking of marine animals & monitoring of ocean conditions, while advancing Canada’s leadership in ocean science.

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Weekend dip in the Halifax Harbour to drown our sorrows after the hockey game 🥲 saltwater in the wound ain’t so bad.

IN ADDITION to closing visitor centres and museums across the province. A clear end goal of keeping the irreplaceable wild places in Nova Scotia from anybody who isn’t trying to mine or log.

'Shock and awe' at DNR: Wildlife division gone, managers sacked, and restructured department geared for natural resources exploitation and extraction - Halifax Examiner Retired wildlife biologist Bob Bancroft describes the elimination of the division and today’s changes to the department as “absolutely disgusting.”

‘Shock and awe’ at DNR: Wildlife division gone, managers sacked, and restructured department geared for natural resources exploitation and extraction
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Grab yourself a copy of the Chronicle Herald today and you might see a familiar face :)

A rare photosynthesizing sea slug has been found off N.S. Here's why scientists are excited | CBC News Researchers believe Elysia chlorotica holds promise for medical advances, but it's been too elusive to study.

I was interviewed by CBC about a remarkable discovery made by a local snorkeller in Halifax — a population of the incredible photosynthesizing sea slug, Elysia chlorotica or the Eastern emerald elysia. Canada’s biodiversity never ceases to leave me in awe. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Map of eastern Canada marking where acoustic monitoring picked up various pinniped species

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Acoustic occurrence of pinnipeds offshore eastern Canada | Kowarski et al.

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Photos from our Bioblitz in Dartmouth Cove this past weekend. Certainly not a wasteland. Plenty of life to be seen, including rock gunnel, a large and likely gravid sea raven, and a slender eelblenny. The latter prefers polar waters and is rare in NS. I have only seen it once before- in the harbour!

'A reminder of what we stand to lose': Divers find vibrant sea life in Dartmouth Cove - Halifax Examiner On Saturday, divers captured photos of starfish, mussel beds, anemones, hermit crabs, sculpins, and more.

‘A reminder of what we stand to lose’: Divers find vibrant sea life in Dartmouth Cove

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Hi Suzanne — I’m the photographer that took the photos in this article. I was wondering if there was a paywall-free link you might be able to send me so I could please read it! Thank you.

'A reminder of what we stand to lose': Divers find vibrant sea life in Dartmouth Cove - Halifax Examiner On Saturday, divers captured photos of starfish, mussel beds, anemones, hermit crabs, sculpins, and more.

‘A reminder of what we stand to lose’: Divers find vibrant sea life in Dartmouth Cove
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A week up in the Canadian Arctic supporting the Inuit community of Tasiujaq with some science :)

Some of the ctenophore species reported for Atlantic Canada. (A–C) = Beroe cucumis (B = B. cucumis has ingested a Pleurobrachia pileus specimen), (D and E) = Bolinopsis infundibulum, (F and G) = Mertensia ovum, (H) = Dryodora glandiformis, (I) = Euplokamis dunlapae, (J and K) = P. pileus. No size measurements were taken during the dives. All photos were taken by HS.

#Ctenophores—aka comb jellies—are more than ocean oddities. They shape food webs and might shift with the climate. This new paper takes stock of what we know (and don’t) in Atlantic Canada.

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I’ve just returned from a month in Australia… highlights included “door-knocking” for funnel web spiders, gliding with greynurse sharks, staring down an army of soldier crabs, and a sweet encounter with a death adder. I’m sorry to my friends that follow me here, I don’t post often enough!!

So sorry for the late reply, but these are whelk eggs!! Probably Buccinum undatum. BIG clutch of them!

We do it differently on the east coast of CANADA. Polar water temps of 3° Celsius means polar species like sea angels (Clione limacina) come out and play! Yes, that’s the famous Peggy’s Cove lighthouse in the back!

Another awesome Saturday spent outside in Canada’s Ocean Playground — a quick rip up to the Bay of Fundy in the AM, followed after lunch by the first freediving session of 2025 in St. Margaret’s Bay!

Send a THANK YOU letter to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans The federal government has just declared the St. Mary’s River to be a candidate “Ecologically Significant Area” under the Fisheries Act. This is good news for the river and local communities working t...

Good news for the St. Mary’s river, which has been selected as a candidate for a brand new kind of protected area called an Ecologically Significant Area, or ESA. Please spare a few clicks and help us tell the government “thank you” for protecting this special place: action.cpaws.org/page/162590/...

Giant clam getting excavated out of the chalk. Curator for scale

The Burke Museum's Kelsie Abrams showing off all the hard work involved in stabilizing and cleaning the fossil clam in order to display it

The Burke Big Bivalve project is complete!
I excavated this clam with our crew back in 2014 and our founder, Mike Triebold, donated it the the Burke museum this spring.

Kelsie did an awesome job on this Platyceramus platinus from the Niobrara, measuring in around 4 feet in diameter. Go see it! 🧪 🦪

If you can brave the cold temperatures this time of year, you’ll be rewarded with some of the most beautiful vistas anywhere in Canada. The Sambro Ledges just outside Halifax, NS, host remarkable ecological communities and rare species!

I’m Hunter. I’m a biologist who snorkels to help establish protected areas. I think its fitting that my first post here be of the animal that got me here — Atlantic salmon. I don’t think people realize how captivating their colours can be.
Also looking for old friends and followers from twitter :)