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) will be one of the speakers. More info and sign up at: www.imarest.org/events/event...

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?...

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....

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....

Amazing work by some very talented colleagues at the Hakai Institute. Such a cool paper! www.science.org/content/arti...

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...

Nerds with telescopes are cooler than billionaires with rockets wapo.st/43Wg9hG

Reposting this cool Hakai Institute blog post about cryptic species of blood stars: hakai.org/for-blood-st...

#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.

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Check out this great new blog post about our Pacific eDNA Coastal Observatory (PECO) network: oceandecadenortheastpacific.org/news/the-pac...

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...

Check it out...We've just uploaded new photos from our survey of zooplankton at Quadra Island inaturalist.ca/observations...