We have now returned to Quito, Ecuador’s capital city. We are here for four days in transition from the tropical Amazon rainforest to the Galapagos Is...
It’s been five days and our group of Vancouver Aquarium explorers is leaving Sacha Lodge and heading back to Quito. I am writing this as we are in the...
This is a discussion of the recently published study, Oil exposure in a warmer Arctic: Potential impacts on key zooplankton species. An abridged versi...
We hear a lot about the upper end of the food chain. In the case of the Arctic, that’s people and polar bears. Declining ice has led to great concern ...
It rained overnight, hard, and lots of it. It sounded like the sky opened up on the thatched roofs of our cabins. The rain was hard enough to drown ...
As some reading this note will know, the Vancouver Aquarium organizes at least one exploration trip to an interesting part of the world each year. We’...