Dinosaurs in the Frost

Dinosaur paleontology is full of apparent contradictions. One of the biggest of these is not only the very presence, but abundance, of these reptiles in and around Polar Regions. For animals long thought to have had metabolisms and bodies ill-suited for bearing the cold of prehistoric winters, the fact that a wide variety of dinosaur types are present in high latitudes has been making paleontologists question what they know about dinosaur biology and the Mesozoic…

Kids donate their birthday money to the Nature Conservancy of Canada

May 21, 2019 Nature Conservancy of Canada staff Biology and Life Sciences, Environmental and Earth Sciences

On April 27, my two sons, Finn and Bodhi, had a "toonie party" to celebrate their joint birthday. In lieu of gifts, my husband and I asked their friends and other family members to bring each of them a toonie to save or spend on something special and another toonie for the boys to donate to a charity of their choice: the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC).

Understanding Oil and Gas Methane Emissions and Mitigation Opportunities: Part 1

May 20, 2019May 21, 2019 Saskatchewan Research Council Environmental and Earth Sciences, General Science, Technology and Engineering

Government energy regulators are demanding substantial greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions from industry. While carbon dioxide is a concern, methane poses a bigger problem because it absorbs significantly more energy and has a great impact on global warming.

Natural legacy: Nature comes full circle at Quebec’s pointe Saint-Pierre

May 20, 2019 Nature Conservancy of Canada staff Biology and Life Sciences, Environmental and Earth Sciences

Standing on the shores of the Gaspé Peninsula, there is a certain serenity that washes over you like waves.Here at the Nature Conservancy of Canada’s (NCC’s) pointe Saint-Pierre (Point St. Peter) property, you can completely immerse yourself in a 360-degree nature experience.

TRANSFORM happened!

May 18, 2019 Matt Hall Environmental and Earth Sciences

How do you describe the indescribable?Last week, Agile hosted the TRANSFORM unconference in Normandy, France. We were there to talk about the open suburface stack — the collection of open-source Python tools for earth scientists. We also spent time on the state of the Software Underground, a global community of practice for digital subsurface scientists and engineers. In effect, this was the first annual Software Underground conference. This was SwungCon 1.The spaceI knew the Château…

Le rendez-vous annuel des nerds des chauves-souris

May 17, 2019 Le Beagle - CSBQ Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, Environmental and Earth Sciences

par Virginie Lemieux-LabontéLe prix excellence CSBQ m’a permis de participer à la 47ième édition du symposium de la North America Society for Bat Research (NASBR), rassemblant la communauté de spécialiste des chauves-souris d’Amérique du Nord à Knoxville au Tennessee (États-Unis). C’est devant ce public avisé que j’ai présenté par affiche une étude sur la communauté de microorganismes de la peau de la grande chauves-souris brune (Eptesicus fuscus) exposée au syndrome du museau blanc (SMB). Cette maladie…

Think globally, conserve locally

May 17, 2019 Nature Conservancy of Canada staff Biology and Life Sciences, Environmental and Earth Sciences

At the beginning of May 2019, representatives of 132 governments around the world released a United Nations report that issues a stark warning: the accelerating deterioration of nature is jeopardizing humanity’s collective future.

The Origins of a Naturalist

May 16, 2019 Amanda Tracey Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, Environmental and Earth Sciences

This week Dispatches from the Field is happy to welcome Megan Quinn, the Coordinator of Conservation Biology for Eastern Ontario with the Nature Conservancy of Canada to share how she ended up working for the environment. Most people working in conservation have a story about how they got into the field. In my case, environmental work wasn’t my first, second, or even fifth career choice, but it did turn out to be my favourite. Although…

Success under pressure: Helping landowners succeed with stewardship in southwestern Ontario

May 16, 2019 Nature Conservancy of Canada staff Biology and Life Sciences, Environmental and Earth Sciences

The Carolinian ecoregion of Canada makes up one per cent of the country’s total land mass and is limited to southwestern Ontario. The Ontario Forest Birds at Risk Program (OFBAR) at Bird Studies Canada works to ensure that the birds most at risk in this area recover before they are lost forever.

Exploring great apes’ social attention with Harvard PhD student Laura Lewis

May 15, 2019 Micheline Khan Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, Environmental and Earth Sciences

The Hominidae family, whose members are known as the great apes, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes the bonobo, chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan and humans. The great apes are our closest living relatives and are well-known for… Continue reading →

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