2016 Great Backyard Bird Count – An opportunity for all to do a little citizen science and celebrate Family Day

With the El Niño weather phenomenon warming Pacific waters and contributing to record-warm temperatures this winter, participants in the 2016 Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) may be in for a few surprises. The 19th annual GBBC starts tomorrow, February 12, and continues through Monday, February 15. Information gathered and reported Read more…

Citizen Science: Cultivating our curiousity, competence, and connectedness in nature (by Dr. Lisa Nisbet, Trent University)

Watching wildlife can be entertaining, relaxing, exciting, confusing, stressful, or all of the above.  Many people are fascinated by the stories going on in their gardens, urban greenspaces, conservation areas, and parks.  The backyard squirrels leaping from one precarious branch to another, as they race through the treetops at top Read more…

To Be a Better Ancestor….and how thinking of the future relates to a carbon tax – James Schaefer

Running is an odd activity.  To non-enthusiasts, it is a mix of monotony and self-inflicted pain.  Yet, in Canada, many adults list running as their favourite participation sport – more than soccer, softball, hunting, fishing, aerobics, or tennis.  Strange pleasures, it seems, are found on the trails and treadmills of Read more…