Matt Lemay
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I use eDNA and other genetic tools to study marine biodiversity.
https://www.mattlemay.net
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...
6 months ago
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Ocean Biomolecular Observing Network (OBON)
7 months ago
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
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www.imarest.org/events/event...
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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?...
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Hakai Institute's Quadra Island Bioblitz
YouTube video by Hakai Institute
https://youtu.be/1Jq7LHuBDN4?feature=shared
8 months ago
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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....
8 months ago
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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.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
8 months ago
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Amazing work by some very talented colleagues at the Hakai Institute. Such a cool paper!
www.science.org/content/arti...
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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
https://www.science.org/content/article/mysterious-killer-sea-stars-finally-identified
9 months ago
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Amazing work by some very talented colleagues at the Hakai Institute. Such a cool paper!
www.science.org/content/arti...
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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
https://www.science.org/content/article/mysterious-killer-sea-stars-finally-identified
9 months ago
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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...
12 months ago
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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...
12 months ago
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Nerds with telescopes are cooler than billionaires with rockets
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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.
https://wapo.st/43Wg9hG
about 1 year ago
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Reposting this cool Hakai Institute blog post about cryptic species of blood stars:
hakai.org/for-blood-st...
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For Blood Stars, Looks Can Be Deceiving | Hakai Institute
With genetics, scientists find sea star species hiding in plain sight.
https://hakai.org/for-blood-stars-looks-can-be-deceiving/
about 1 year ago
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#PhycologyFriday
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over 1 year ago
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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.
over 1 year ago
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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...
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“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.
https://hakai.org/species-of-the-day-keeps-biologists-at-play/
over 1 year ago
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Hakai Institute
over 1 year ago
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 yearsđź”—https://tinyurl.com/4wfcd6f5
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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
over 1 year ago
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Happy
#phycologyfriday
! Here's a filamentous red algae I photographed under a scope a few years ago.
over 1 year ago
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Science News wrote a really nice summary of our recent paper on beaked hazelnut population genetics
www.science.org/content/arti...
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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
https://www.science.org/content/article/indigenous-tribes-engineered-british-columbia-s-modern-hazelnut-forests-more-7000-years
over 1 year ago
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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...
over 1 year ago
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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
over 1 year ago
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Check it out...We've just uploaded new photos from our survey of zooplankton at Quadra Island
inaturalist.ca/observations...
over 2 years ago
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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...
almost 2 years ago
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Font suggestion for
#Invertefest
almost 2 years ago
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Chiton diversity from our Calvert Island bioblitz (in 2017) for
#Invertefest
almost 2 years ago
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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...
almost 2 years ago
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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...
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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...
https://inaturalist.ca/projects/quadra-island-bioblitz-2024
almost 2 years ago
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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...
almost 2 years ago
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Check out this great new blog post about our Pacific eDNA Coastal Observatory (PECO) network:
oceandecadenortheastpacific.org/news/the-pac...
about 2 years ago
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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...
about 2 years ago
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Check it out...We've just uploaded new photos from our survey of zooplankton at Quadra Island
inaturalist.ca/observations...
over 2 years ago
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