Fish tagging has been gaining popularity for decades, with biotelemetry now being the primary method used to study animal movements. But what is this technology, and why do we use it? Most of what we know about animal migrations today …
Power of Optimism: don’t lose hope in the face of climate change
There’s plenty of negative information out there about the impacts of climate change – so much so, that many people are starting to question the value of conservation efforts. Although there is a lot of publicity and research surrounding the …
Quick Facts about the Horseshoe Crab
Despite their name, horseshoe crabs—bizarre, ancient critters—don’t look like horseshoes, and they’re definitely not crabs. Horseshoes are actually arachnids, more closely related to spiders, ticks, mites and scorpions than they are to other decapods! Horseshoe crabs first appeared over 450 …
Lessons Learned in the Field
During the summer of 2017, I worked as a field technician for the Cape Breton Pilot Whale Project (CBPWP), founded by members of the Whitehead Lab at Dalhousie University to study the social structure and vocalizations of long-finned pilot whales …
2018 in 18 Pictures
2018 was an important year for me in many ways, full of change, new experiences, and hard-learned lessons. Here are 18 photographs to summarize that year. 1. I kicked off 2018 with a visit to Pleasant Bay, Cape Breton, where …