Ding Ding! Round 2! Best wishes for students and teaching teams in Medical Entomology ๐ท๏ธ๐ฆ Field Methods in Animal Behaviour ๐ฆโโฌ๐ฆand Species at Risk! ๐ข๐ฟ#HandsOnLearning#FieldWork#SEASIDE2024
With the recent scrapping of N.S.โs Coastal Protection Act, the future of Canadaโs iconic Bay of Fundy now rests in the hands of private interests, with potentially significant consequences, writes Dal's Lara Cornejo and Elson Ian Nyl Ebreo Galang: bit.ly/4daCfiu
Here we go, SEASIDE 2024!! Agroforestry, Aquaculture, and Herpetology all start April 25! Let's gooooo, team! #HandsOnLearning#Field#Lab ๐ฒ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฅผ@dalscience
ALT Poster of many images of students working in the field - SEASIDE 2024 Applications open Tues Jan 30 at 9 AM. Applications are not the same as registration. Contact Jen (jfrail@dal.ca) with questions. Please visit dal.ca/seaside
Blink and you'll miss it! Today marks the end of #SEASIDE2023 --- after 17 courses and 274 enrolled, HUGE thank you to the tireless teaching teams and students, support staff, and those supporting field trip/transportation logistics! @DalScience#HandsOnLearning#SoManyMemories
ALT 8 SCUBA divers in a green-hued tank, fully geared up with bubbles coming out.
ALT Multiple people laying in a circle, on a blue tarp in a campground.
ALT A group of people sitting together, covered in mud, with mud in the foreground and salt marsh grass in the background
ALT Multiple people looking up through binoculars, on a dirt road with trees and shrubs bordering the road.
Attention first-year Dal Science students: Join us on Wednesday, Sept. 6 from 2 to 4 pm for our welcome picnic. ๐ There will be pizza, lawn games, prizes and Dal Science swag to give away!
Register to attend: rb.gy/xdc2h
ALT Students are served pizza at an outdoor welcome event
In this episode of Meet a Scientist, Elizabeth tells us how she uses drone technology to study how long-finned pilot whales make decisions, and how this can help us mitigate mass strandings. ๐ณ๐
Students in a @CoastalSEASIDE summer course had the rare opportunity to participate in the necropsy of a great white shark, allowing them to see the endangered creature up close and search for clues concerning its death ๐ฆ dal.ca/news/2023/08/10/sharkโฆ
@DalSEASIDE doesn't get any better than this! @SharksWithScar got some FINtastic footage of one of the blue sharks hanging out around the boat during our annual shark tagging trip with @DalScience students. #SHARKWEEK
SO happy we were able to have our @DalSEASIDE Shark Class students take part in a WHITE SHARK necropsy Friday! Thanks to all who helped organize this, in particular the Marine Animal Response Society ๐ฆ @DalScience@DalhousieU
DAY 17 of @DalSEASIDE#Ornithology - the course may be officially ending today but the memories, friends & skills we've gained will endure! feeling incredibly grateful for an exceptionally wonderful bunch of @DalScience#undergrads to share this experience with โค๏ธ
DAYs 6-9 of @DalSEASIDE#Ornithology has seen an incredible diversity of habitats and #bird species in the valley region of #novascotia (86 sp so far, including 7 SAR!) - it helps when you have such a fabulous group of @DalScience students down to bird nonstop!
DAY 5 of @DalSEASIDE#Ornithology with my students finally getting out in the field proper and IDing local #novascotia#birds in real life (30 species including great looks @ CONI & singing EAWP) a surprise guest visit to appreciate a few #birdsofprey firsthand! @DalScience
This Thursday, join a panel of experts for an in-depth discussion exploring shark conservation and research in Nova Scotia ๐ฆ
Everyone in the Dal community is welcome to attend. Learn more about the panelists and register today: alumni.dal.ca/get-connected/โฆ
ALT A poster advertising a panel discussion on shark research and conservation
๐ถ It's the most wonderful time of the year! ๐ต
โ DAY 1 of @DalSEASIDE#Ornithology with my students starting to build their knowledge and ID skills for our local #novascotia#birds using the museum in the @DalScience Biology Department as a great learning tool!
Well, here we go again! #SEASIDE2023 starts today with #DiversityOfAlgae๐, and tomorrow with #FieldAquaculture ๐! Thank you to the instructors, teaching teams, and admin for all your hard work to give students the best #HandsOn courses! It's what makes SEASIDE ๐so great.
field course TA opportunity: its early still, but I'm looking for #gradstudents to help out with my @DalSEASIDE#Ornithology course in #Halifax from June 17 - July 3. If you've got #bird ID skills & marking experience, send me a DM for details!