Churchill

A preview

A preview of things to come in the subarctic.

Amanda's hatching experiment

Ecology in action, life, in Churchill, with pictures, and explanations, using the magic of tupperware. Who said science is boring and expensive.

Sub-arctic outreach

Is it possible that grade 3 kids are more interested in zooplankton than 3year university students? Click here to find out.

Amanda's first blog post of the season

about trains, plains, and canoes.

Summer 2010 fieldwork has begun!

The Cottenie lab will be active in Churchill, Manitoba again this year. I arrived in Churchill about a week ago and Brittany will be joining me in a few short weeks. Check out our progress as Planktoneers!

The world of conferences

I also had the opportunity to attend a conference this week, the 5th annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, held at the Universite Laval. It was a well organized conference with a lot of energy and some very interesting talks and posters. Quebec City served as a wonderful setting for the conference and I was impressed by how the conference was truly bilingual. I was also impressed by vieux Quebec and the beauty of the St.