1/2🧵: Driftwood Figures. #NorthAtlantic #Atlanticcanada
#beachsurvey #washedashore
During the last beach surveys on Sable Island for 2025, there was a huge piece of #driftwood on north beach. It likely arrived during one of the storms and it seemed that most of it was #buriedinsand on the berm. …
1/4🧵: Hazardous Materials Washed Ashore. #SableIsland #NorthAtlantic #Atlanticcanada #beachsurvey
Beach surveys for #plasticdebris & oiled/entangled seabirds have been underway for 30 years on Sable Island. While doing the shoreline searches, other #hazardousmaterials are collected. These include…
1/2🧵: Strawberry Washing Ashore 🌎 #NorthAtlantic #beachsurvey #washedashore
A deflated but huge Mylar/foil balloon shaped & coloured like a strawberry washing ashore on the north beach. It was collected & disposed of, but if it had been on the beach for a while, the sand would have scraped away …
1/5🧵: Beached Balloon Debris 🌎 #SableIsland #NorthAtlantic #beacheddebris #beachedplastics
During the last #beachsurvey, a glimpse of white ribbon & edges of a plastic balloon in the sand indicated more beneath the surface - a dozen foil &/or Mylar balloons & about 30 latex balloons, all deflated..
1/4🧵: Sable Island Harbour Seal. 🌎🌿 #SableIslandnpr #NorthAtlantic
#beachsurvey #HarbourSeals
Yesterday, the survey was paused for a lone Harbour seal who had been snoozing about 30 m away from the sea's edge. (The water in the background is an area of shallow flooding from the last storm.) …
5/5: ….The Sable Island Institute is a registered charity. Its #beachsurvey program provides a wide range of insights regarding the marine environment surrounding & shaping the island. To support our work, please consider making a donation and/or becoming a member, by going to our website:
3/3: … and the island’s role as an #environmentalmonitoring platform for study of #oceanpollutants.
Photo Zoe Lucas.
#NorthAtlantic #beachsurvey #Beachmonitoring
#plasticpollution
#artistinresidence #sciart
#sableislandnpr #parkscanada
For more about #SableIsland: sableislandinstitute.org
4/4: … Photo Zoe Lucas.
For more about Sable Island: sableislandinstitute.org
#SableIsland #NorthAtlantic #beachsurvey
#marinedebris #beachedplastics #washedashore #buriedinsand #plasticpollution
#sableislandnpr #parkscanada
#sableislandnationalparkreserve
5/5: The Sable Island Institute is a not-for-profit & a registered charity. Its #beachsurvey program provides unique insights regarding the marine environment surrounding & shaping the island. To support our work, please consider a donation (go to “Donate” and/or “become a member” on our website).
Masks and Worms (1/5🧵) 🌎
Beginning in early 2020, it was expected that lost & discarded single-use #facemasks would be as abundant among the #beacheddebris on #SableIsland as they are in coastal areas worldwide. However, to date <25 have been recorded in the #beachsurvey program. Why so few?…
3/3:…. strands separating, splitting, & shedding fibres into the environment. This synthetic dune hummock is an example of the countless massive debris items mostly out-of-sight under sand & in the ocean.
Photos Zoe Lucas.
#beachsurvey
#sableislandnpr #parkscanada
For more about #SableIsland:
Gooseneck Barnacles on #SableIsland yesterday, shown earlier attached to a beached lobster crate. (1/3🧵) 🌎🌿🦑 #NorthAtlantic #washedashore #invertebrates #beachsurvey #biodiversity
Out of the water & in the glare of the sunshine, the #barnacles are dying. There’s nothing that can be done for them…..
Barnacles on Sable Island. (1/3🧵) 🌎🌿🦑 #SableIsland #NorthAtlantic #barnacles #washedashore #marinedebris #adrift #beachedplastics #sableislandnpr #parkscanada
This week, a few plastic lobster crates were found during the #beachsurvey. This one was cast ashore with the last high tide…..
2/2: … at some horses ahead of them, & the younger one in the middle looked at the photographer who had stopped while doing the monthly beached seabird survey.
Photo Zoe Lucas.
#beachsurvey #parkscanada #sableislandnpr
#sableislandnationalparkreserve
For more about #SableIsland:
Yesterday we met Gillian Martin MSP and Niamh Burns to conduct a tide line survey along the Ythan Estuary in Newburgh.
#beachclean #beachsurvey #plastics #environment
2/2: … June Beetles were flying about, buzzing, in the dark, over the dune vegetation.
For more about #SableIsland: sableislandinstitute.org
#photography #NorthAtlantic #June #Junebugs #beachsurvey #beachedplastics
#sableislandnpr #parkscanada
#sableislandnationalparkreserve
3/3: Photos Zoe Lucas. For more about #SableIsland: bit.ly/3iUqhvY
#NorthAtlantic #spring #coloursofspring
#beachlitter #washedashore #beachsurvey
#beachedplastics #oceanplastic #plasticpollution #microplastics
#sableislandnpr #parkscanada
#sableislandnationalparkreserve
