Climate resilience is important. Thinking of everyone in North Carolina today....

Nnpr.orgSep 30, 2024 7:51pm

Spruce Pine is a major global supplier of high-purity quartz. It’s an essential ingredient for microchips and solar panels.

A tiny town just got slammed by Helene. It could massively disrupt the tech industry

Spruce Pine is a major global supplier of high-purity quartz. It’s an essential ingredient for microchips and solar panels.

Using today to reflect on our shared histories. nctr.ca. 🧡 The photo below is of an eagle feather found by one of our research team members this summer while doing field work. The kiptu feather is now in BK's care on the behalf of the DEEHR team, following Mi'kmaq teachings.

OK...the NWS Bot collection is now fully populated and ready to go. I'm sure bugs will come up along the way, but I think it is 95%+ stable. There's an index page at nws-bot.us including a map (borrowed from NWS) to find the right bot for the area you want to follow.

Thank you for calling this out.

Downy woodpeckers are also very busy this Fall term on the SMU campus in Halifax!

We all are more interconnected in many ways than we realize.... 🧪🐜🌎

AWalexwild.bsky.socialSep 24, 2024 3:32pm

Y'all need to learn about ant yogurt. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Making yogurt with the ant holobiont uncovers bacteria, acids, and enzymes for food fermentation

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Thank you! 😊 add me if you like, I post lots of environment and nature content in HRM, mixed in with a bit of gardening. 🌻

Since we're posting butterflies to celebrate @bsky.app passing 10M users, here's a monarch against a bright blue sky! (Taken last July. It's resting on one of my tomato stakes in between forays to the milkweed stands).

And of course, taking a quick look at the diatoms and green algae in our phytoplankton tows.... We're preparing a training set for our upcoming labs so the students can learn ID skills.

Working through the first set of zooplankton identification for Sandy Lake (Bedford NS in Halifax Regional Municipality) in preparation for our class field work and an upcoming Aquatic Environments lab. It's always fun to take a first look at the data and see what's happening in the lake!