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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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