Category Archives: Talks

Thursday, Apr. 6, 2017: ANTARCTIC VOYAGE

Posted on April 5, 2017 by davidp

At our regular meeting, long-time HFN member Peter Webster will share experiences and images from his December 2015/January 2016 trip to the Antarctic. All welcome, 7:30 pm at NSMNH on Summer Street. View Details under Walks & Talks Also, Sydney … Continue reading →

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Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017: CANADA COAST to COAST …

Posted on January 30, 2017 by davidp

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 … Continue reading →

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THURSDAY, JAN. 5, 2016: THE WOLF AT THE DOOR

Posted on January 3, 2017 by davidp

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 … Continue reading →

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Thursday Oct 6, 2016: Detecting fishing vessel behaviour from space

Posted on October 4, 2016 by davidp

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 … Continue reading →

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