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Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017: CANADA COAST to COAST …
Join us, 7:30 pm on Thursday Feb 2, 2017 at the NS Museum of Natural History on Summer Street for a very Canadian presentation. Gavin Mason, coastal geoscientist at BIO, will talk about our 300,000 km of coastline, elaborating on the geomorphology (the study of the origin and evolution of the earth’s landforms, both on […]
Posted: January 30th, 2017 under Talks.
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THURSDAY, JAN. 5, 2016: THE WOLF AT THE DOOR
At our first regular meeting of 2017, award-winning author Bob Chaulk talks about the historic seal hunt during the period of the ‘wooden walls’, after the steamships SS Bloodhound and SS Wolf brought wholesale change to an old industry, beginning in 1863. Bob tells about the dangerous and desperate lives of the men – young, […]
Posted: January 3rd, 2017 under Talks.
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Thursday Oct 6, 2016: Detecting fishing vessel behaviour from space
Kristina Boerder, a PhD student from Dalhousie University, will tell us about how she is making movements of fishing vessels visible (even when they are out of sight!) using satellite technology in ecologically important areas of our world’s oceans. 7:30 p.m. at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History. Read more
Posted: October 4th, 2016 under Talks.
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