Preserving Shark Jaws for Posterity
Dr. David Shiffman is in the basement of the Vancouver Aquarium, taking a three-dimensional picture of a spiny dogfish jaw. It’s trickier than you might think. Using a free app called QLONE, he fills in a cone ...
Weekly Ocean News
Ecosystems and Biodiversity
The local food renaissance has made people more aware of where their food comes from, but new research from the University of Pittsburgh suggests it may be just as important to foll...
Running for Ocean Health
This past month, Matthew Bicknell, an outdoor enthusiast and local Mountain Equipment Co-op run club leader, began a challenge that would open his eyes to a far-reaching and often overwhelming problem: single-u...
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Biodiversity
Cleaner shrimp are the dental hygienists of the reef. They pick parasites, food scraps and dead skin off passing predators, even climbing into their mouths without, somehow, getting eaten. It turn...
Book Review: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Ecosystems are the perfect example of balance. Each organism plays an important part in the system and ensuring that everything works efficiently. But what happens when there is wise-scale disruption? The Life ...
Wild Canadian Coastlines
Over the last year, I visited two magical places in Canada. Last August, I traveled through the Canadian High Arctic with the Students on Ice expedition. In May, I visited the beautiful islands of Haida Gwaii w...
A New Discovery in a Deadly Fight
In 2013, sea stars along the West Coast began to die en masse from a mysterious virus. Scientists called sea star wasting syndrome, as the disease came to be known, one of the greatest die-offs ever recorded. I...
Weekly Ocean News
Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Scientists are calling for fishing regulations to help save the Amazon forest. Why? Brazil's Pantanal is a floodplain the size of Washington State, which spends half the year underw...