Sentinels of Change

Sentinels of Change

Sentinels of Change IMERSS is one of several Salish Sea partners for the Hakai Institute led Sentinels of Change Dungeness crab larvae light trap. It is a decade-long study focusing on understanding the population fluctuations of the Dungeness crab larvae to their...
Diatoms of the Salish Sea

Diatoms of the Salish Sea

Diatoms of the Salish Sea Diatoms are a major group of photosynthetic micro-algae living in marine and freshwater environments, which provide vast quantities of oxygen, food and nutrients for a wide range of organisms. The last regional diatom inventories were...
Operation GaliWatch

Operation GaliWatch

Operation GaliWatch Wild pollinators are an integral part of native plant communities and are highly effective at pollinating flowers in natural ecosystems. The GaliWatch project is dedicated to developing low-cost data collection and analysis systems for long-term...
Janszen Legacy Project

Janszen Legacy Project

Janszen Legacy Project Harvey Janszen (July 11, 1946–May 10, 2021) was an accomplished amateur botanist and naturalist endeared to many in British Columbia’s natural history community. During his career, Harvey collected over 3,000 vascular plant specimens,...
Maritime Lichens of the Salish Sea

Maritime Lichens of the Salish Sea

Maritime Lichens of the Salish Sea   Lichens are able to colonize bare rock communities and live in harsh, nutrient-poor environments on account of their ability to photosynthesize and absorb ambient nutrients from the atmosphere, incident waters and their...
20/20 Vision on Plant Extirpation

20/20 Vision on Plant Extirpation

20/20 Vision on Plant Extirpation This project aims to establish a novel protocol for the detection of species extirpation, drawing on historical baseline data and contemporary citizen science observations recorded on the Biodiversity Galiano project using...