Tim Fedak PhD

#FossilFriday drawing of Plateosaurus skull and neck - on display in Dinosaur Explorations exhibit at the Museum of Natural History in Halifax. @novascotiamuseum.bsky.social

Selfie of museum curator holding the small skull of Hypsognathus in his hand

On #museumselfieday saying hello to our OLD friend Hypsognathus in the Geology Collections of the Nova Scotia Museum. You can now say hello as well, with Collections Online at collections.novascotia.ca/object-nsm99...

In case you might find this interesting, the "Science and Practice of Road Making", from The Bee newspaper, Pictou, Nova Scotia, January 1836. #urbangeology #historyofgeology

This image is a highlight of 2025. It represents celebration of geoheritage, geodiversity, and community engagement.

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Graphic with the text Nova Scotia Museum Collections Online and a Plate Of Baleen

NEW - Explore Our Collections

This new site, Nova Scotia Museum Collections Online, allows users to explore of some of the highlights in the Nova Scotia Museum collection. We will be adding content regularly.

collections.novascotia.ca

#NSMCollections #NovaScotiaMuseum #novascotia

Geodiversity Day 2025 at the Cliffs of Fundy UNESCO Global Geopark In this guest article Tim Fedak outlines how the Cliffs of Fundy UNESCO Global Geopark, Nova Scotia, Canada celebrated International Geodiversity Day 2025 with a very special guided hike.Photo of sunr...

A summary of International Geodiversity Day @geodiversityday.bsky.social in the Cliffs of Fundy UNESCO Global Geopark #NovaScotia @visitnovascotia.bsky.social ⚒️ www.geodiversityday.org/post/geodive...

Only those who were there, know how great an event this was. @jasonloxton.bsky.social

Two fossil pine cones, about 6-7 cm long cones with scales. Specimen number NSM024GF32 and 1 cm scale bar.

A merry and very, very,... old #ChristmasTree. These #NovaScotia pine cones may be from the Cretaceous! Learn more at: museum.novascotia.ca/blog/very-ol...

Am pleased to see the biographic profile of Samuel Gaskin now published in PNSIS. Gaskin was a first generation Bajan Nova Scotian who made significant contributions to innovations in #mapping for #NovaScotia Dept of Mines. #BlackSTEM #BlackinGIS ⚒️ -

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Drawn to Geology in Hobart Tasmania Drawing the geology and geoheritage of the Hobart Rivulet, Tasmania, including Triassic and Carboniferous geology exposures.

Drawing Geology - Reflections on a recent trip to Hobart, Tasmania. ⚒️ edinos.ca/drawn-to-geo...

Zonia Baber is someone I would have like to meet.

A wonderful celebration of #GeodiversityDay in the Cliffs of Fundy UNESCO Global Geopark - ⚒️ see more and Like/Follow at: facebook.com/DrawingGeopa...

The boat shed at Fishermans life Museum.

The red Heritage buildings of the fisheries Museum of the Atlantic.

A boat built by the Maritime Museum of the atlantic boat school sits in front of the CSS Acadia.

The yellow and green Dory sits by the wharf at the historic Acadian village of Nova Scotia.

Today is World Maritime Day. With over 13,000 kilometers of coastline, Nova Scotia is shaped by the sea. Take time to explore the stories of our seafaring past, present, and future. #NovaScotia

And when you have an over abundance of terrestrial snails, you may have...

A small tan colour seed floating in water

Found this 80,000 year old seed in #MastodonMud at the museum today. Will it sprout? @novascotiamuseum.bsky.social

This wonderful artwork for the publication was done by Kathryn Killackey @kjkillackey.bsky.social

For #FossilFriday - ancient DNA shows the #NovaScotia mastodons are older than thought, and have migrated into the Atlantic region multiple times over the past 500,000 years. In Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ⚒️

Thin white bone a few centimeters long in a dried grey mud, with a scale bar.

A small spruce cone in a plastic box.

On my desk for #FossilFriday - these small bones (Northern Leopard Frog) and the spruce cone being removed from a small block of 80,000 year old mud collected during the 1991 Mastodon dig. These have been in a freezer for over 30 years! Will the 80,000 year old spruce cone have viable seeds?

Please come and visit us again. I would be so pleased to show you all the sites, modern and fossil.

In Travels to North America and Nova Scotia (1845) Lyell published this lithograph of bird tracks in mud that he collected in 1842. Today, as I sit on this same shore, I can appreciate Lyell watching these delicate birds and thinking about deep time. #geoheritage

Last bit should say “Cracks seem unrelated to tracks here.”

The mudcracks seem to be based on the mass and orientation of mud, flatter regions have larger “tiles”, wider spacing of cracks and more vertical areas have more tightly spaced cracks, smaller tiles. Tracks seem more related to spacing here.

The delicate bird tracks are from the small Semipalmated Sandpipers. While doing a drawing study, the birds ignore you and go about their business.

Some nice high tide mud exposures with Raccoon footprints at The Port Pub in #PortWilliams #NovaScotia #PortWilliams

Today - I'm taking a road trip to #Kentville #NovaScotia to search for tracks preserved in Bay of Fundy mud. In 1842, Dr. Webster sent samples of rain prints collected from the muddy banks of the Cornwallis River to Charles Lyell. The rest, is geological history! ⚒️ archive.org/details/quar...

The first of its kind in the limestone unit.

It's a new specimen and from the Windsor Group, so yes, it is younger.

Oval brown rocks with a fossil fish and its counter part on left, with skull impression facing each other and scales of body visible in both pieces. A reference paper with illustrations, a bottle of consolidant/glue and a yellow paint brush in background.

Kissing fish! For #FossilFriday - the latest view of the Platysomid fish from the Early Carboniferous of #NovaScotia found by Dr Mo Snyder and Jesse Demaires-Smith from Acadia University is 2023. ⚒️ Fossil and counterpart - look like two fish kissing.