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Bobsledding
Go with the Floe Floe: a floating sheet of ice Gold medal hopefuls such as Kaillie Humphries and Lascelles Brown will be competing in the bobsledding competitions which will test…
Fall Field Season Finished and Bat Numbers are Down
[CWF PHOTO CREDIT: KAREN VANDERWOLF/NB MUSEUM] We’ve finished our fall field season and bat numbers are more depressing than ever. We saw just 39 bats in the 10 sites that…
We Were On Land and Sea!
[PHOTO CREDIT: DF MCALPINE -NEW BRUNSWICK MUSEUM] I previously wrote about spending a couple days with a CBC camera crew for an upcoming episode of Land and Sea on…
A Video on Bats and White Nose Snydrome
[PHOTO CREDIT: KAREN VANDERWOLF/NB MUESUM] The US Forest Service recently made a video on bats and white nose syndrome featuring several well known US scientists. Take a look!
Listing Bats In Canada
[PHOTO CREDIT: KAREN VANDERWOLF/NB MUSEUM] North America has 48 different species of bats and 6 of them have experienced significant mortality due to white-nose syndrome. The species hardest hit are…
A New Name For The WNS Causing Fungus
[PHOTO CREDIT: KAREN VANDERWOLF/NB MUSEUM – a culture of Pseudogymnoascus destructans growing on agar in the lab] The fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, Geomyces destructans, has been renamed…
WNS on CBC’s Land and Sea!
[PHOTO CREDIT: DF MCALPINE] – Myself on the left with the camera crew – I recently spent two days with a CBC camera crew. They are making an episode of…
We’re Talking Shorelines
This week we’re near Westport, ON along with the Centre for Sustainable Watersheds training the technicians who will be out on some of Ontario’s lakes this summer surveying shorelines as…
The Alsek River – River of the Month
[PHOTO – ALSEK RIVER] The Yukon’s Alsek River is found in Kluane National Park Reserve. With features including mountains, glaciers, valleys, bare rock and undisturbed wilderness this river and its…
Canada Blooms Day 3: The Common Bluet
It’s Day Three! We are so happy to be here at Canada Blooms! Stop by! So let’s talk about something blue, shall we? The Bluet flower! Bluets are native to…
