For #PhycologyFriday we've got a new paper out summarizing 13 years of intensive seaweed surveys on the Central Coast of BC: cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Matt Lemay
@littorina.bsky.social
I use eDNA and other genetic tools to study marine biodiversity. https://www.mattlemay.net
Join us at the @imarest.bsky.social webinar on: "Unlocking Ocean Secrets: Marine Mammal Monitoring Through eDNA" 22 Sept 2025 - 4pm UK time Matt Lemay, from the OBON project "HI-BON" (led by @hakai.org) will be one of the speakers. More info and sign up at: www.imarest.org/events/event...
Check it out: Our Communications Team made an amazing video about the Quadra Island Bioblitz that we ran last year. It’s a really nice overview of how and why we do bioblitzes... youtu.be/1Jq7LHuBDN4?...
Hakai Institute's Quadra Island Bioblitz
YouTube video by Hakai Institute
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Check it out: We have a new paper out that experimentally tests the impact of Ocean Acidification on eDNA shedding and decay. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
New Paper: We linked DNA in sediment cores with historical accounts from Indigenous community members to reconstruct ecosystem changes that occurred following a landslide event in the 1940s. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Amazing work by some very talented colleagues at the Hakai Institute. Such a cool paper! www.science.org/content/arti...
Mysterious killer of sea stars finally identified
Discovery of a bacterium could reveal more about massive die-off, perhaps aid recovery
science.org
Amazing work by some very talented colleagues at the Hakai Institute. Such a cool paper! www.science.org/content/arti...
Mysterious killer of sea stars finally identified
Discovery of a bacterium could reveal more about massive die-off, perhaps aid recovery
science.org
The Hakai Institute is hosting a group of international scholars from the Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence. Some of them got really excited about seaweed, and I wanted to share some of their amazing photos for #PhycologyFriday More about the program: www.ofi.ca/programs/cen...
The Hakai Institute is hosting a group of international scholars from the Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence. Today we ran a mini-bioblitz and I wanted so share some of the amazing specimen photos they took! #invertfest #invertefest More about the program: www.ofi.ca/programs/cen...
Nerds with telescopes are cooler than billionaires with rockets wapo.st/43Wg9hG
Webb telescope detects a possible signature of life on a distant world
A molecule detected on a planet 124 light-years away is produced on Earth by decaying phytoplankton and other microbes. There is no other known source.
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Reposting this cool Hakai Institute blog post about cryptic species of blood stars: hakai.org/for-blood-st...
For Blood Stars, Looks Can Be Deceiving | Hakai Institute
With genetics, scientists find sea star species hiding in plain sight.
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Here's a Rhodolith from the central coast of BC for #PhycologyFriday ! Photo credit goes to the Hakai Institute, but that is my thumb.
Hot off the press...Here's a really fun blog post about some of the coolest critters we observed during our Quadra Island Bioblitz in the spring of 2024. hakai.org/species-of-t...
“Species of the Day” Keeps Biologists at Play | Hakai Institute
The Hakai Institute is a scientific research institution that advances long-term research at remote locations on the coastal margin of British Columbia, Canada.
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A new study on hazelnut biogeography in the Pacific Northwest led by @SFU researcher Chelsey Geralda Armstrong and Hakai Institute researchers, reveals the profound role of Indigenous peoples in shaping hazelnut range and distribution over thousands of years🔗https://tinyurl.com/4wfcd6f5
I just learned about #Nudivember Here is a great collage that our media team put together....all photos are from a bioblitz that we did on the central coast of British Columbia in 2017
Happy #phycologyfriday ! Here's a filamentous red algae I photographed under a scope a few years ago.
Science News wrote a really nice summary of our recent paper on beaked hazelnut population genetics www.science.org/content/arti...
Indigenous tribes engineered British Columbia’s modern hazelnut forests more than 7000 years ago
Genetic analysis of hazelnut trees could help First Nations secure land rights in Canadian courts
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Check out this great article about our work combining community-science and eDNA to monitor the spread of European green crabs in BC hakai.org/primed-to-de...
I'm excited to share our new paper on hazelnut population genetics: Genetic differentiation and precolonial Indigenous cultivation of hazelnut (Corylus cornuta, Betulaceae) in Western North America www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... This was a collaborative research project with many great co-authors
Check it out...We've just uploaded new photos from our survey of zooplankton at Quadra Island inaturalist.ca/observations...
Here's a wonderful new blog post about the work we're doing at the Hakai Institute using DNA to study marine biodiversity! oceandecadenortheastpacific.org/news/the-hak...
Here's a wonderful new blog post about the work we're doing at the Hakai Institute using DNA to study marine biodiversity! oceandecadenortheastpacific.org/news/the-hak...
We're doing a three-week-long survey of biodiversity on Quadra Island. So many cool critters, you can follow along here: inaturalist.ca/projects/qua...
Quadra Island Bioblitz 2024
The Hakai Institute will be holding its first Quadra Island-wide bioblitz over three weeks this spring, with experts in all sorts of organisms joining us at our Quadra Island Ecological Observatory to...
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Check out this great new video-series about research that our staff and collaborators are doing with environmental DNA... The Nature Files (Ep. 1): The eDNA Briefing youtu.be/eenQAfrIdwQ?... There's a new video coming out each week...
Check out this great new blog post about our Pacific eDNA Coastal Observatory (PECO) network: oceandecadenortheastpacific.org/news/the-pac...
We're co-hosting a webinar: Mobilizing Environmental DNA (eDNA) for Management in the Northeast Pacific. Please join us if you are a marine scientist or manager and would like to learn more about eDNA us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Check it out...We've just uploaded new photos from our survey of zooplankton at Quadra Island inaturalist.ca/observations...