Matt Lemay

Come for the charismatic megafauna, stay for the algae, lichen, and hydroids

YouTube video by Hakai Institute Hakai Institute's Quadra Island Bioblitz

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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...

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Higher CO2 levels increased shedding rates, indicating greater organism stress and biological effects on oysters.

Additionally, increased CO2 accelerates DNA and RNA decay, suggesting that ocean acidification may impact the reliability of eDNA-based biodiversity monitoring.

Check it out: We have a new paper out that experimentally tests the impact of Ocean Acidification on eDNA shedding and decay.

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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.

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Mysterious killer of sea stars finally identified Discovery of a bacterium could reveal more about massive die-off, perhaps aid recovery

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

Amazing work by some very talented colleagues at the Hakai Institute. Such a cool paper!

www.science.org/content/arti...

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...

It’s a giant water planet with a 33-day-year!

Lots of probably valid critiques of this study, but the fact we can measure anything on a planet 100 light years away (or even know it’s there) is amazing.

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.

Nerds with telescopes are cooler than billionaires with rockets

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For Blood Stars, Looks Can Be Deceiving | Hakai Institute With genetics, scientists find sea star species hiding in plain sight.

Reposting this cool Hakai Institute blog post about cryptic species of blood stars:

hakai.org/for-blood-st...

This is from Northbeach on Calvert island.

#PhycologyFriday !!

Here's a Rhodolith from the central coast of BC for #PhycologyFriday !

Photo credit goes to the Hakai Institute, but that is my thumb.

Close up photo of a pea crab

yes, there is a pea crab

#Crustmas

“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.

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...

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.

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

Science News wrote a really nice summary of our recent paper on beaked hazelnut population genetics

www.science.org/content/arti...

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...

That smug bastard

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Chiton diversity from our Calvert Island bioblitz (in 2017) for #Invertefest

Thanks!