2025 MSc/PhD Opportunity
Join us in the ACS Lab! Our highly collegial and productive Raincoast Applied Conservation Science lab is seeking applications for…
After the field
When people think about conservation science, especially associated with organizations such as Raincoast, they might imagine the Central Coast of…
2024 MSc opportunity
Our highly collegial and productive Raincoast Applied Conservation Science lab is seeking expressions of interest for a MSc position to…
A new term
Sylvie here, I’m the ACS lab’s new manager and research associate. This fall, things look a little bit different for…
Event – Poetry with ‘Cúagilákv
On Monday, October 16th, as a special seminar from the departments of Geography and English here at the University of…
Join our lab!
Our highly collegial and productive Raincoast Applied Conservation Science Lab is seeking expressions of interest for a MSc or PhD…
Welcome to the ACS Lab!
We are back to in-person classes, a busy campus, and a full lab. We’re thrilled to have Ali Gladwell (MSc),…
The Bear Project
In collaboration with the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, we have created a Bear Project Infographic (PDF). We made this for a…
Braving the Seas
A crash course in small vessels As we prepare to make our journey up the coast, lab members Ilona Mihalik,…
On this International Women’s Day
Dear future woman* in science, Today (and everyday) we’re committed to celebrating you! It isn’t always easy, but you’re equipped…
Equitably Bridging Knowledges through Etuaptmumk (“Two-Eyed Seeing”)
Increasingly, wildlife and fisheries researchers and managers are called to “bridge” or “integrate” Indigenous knowledge systems with Western scientific approaches…
ACS Lab project featured on CBC’s The Nature of Things
In June 2021, I joined Dallas Smith, president of Nanwakolas Council, in Da’naxda’xw Awaetlala territory to discuss developments of the…
A collapsing jenga tower and the keystone species solution
Search any living room or board game cafe and you are likely to find a Jenga tower lying somewhere on…
Science is still better together
Reflections from the 2021 ACS Lab Retreat The world is in a very different place since the last lab retreat…
A gentle man & scholar – Dr. Michael Soulé
Our senior mentor, Paul Paquet, texted this morning to let me know that Michael Soulé had died. Earlier this week,…
Black Lives Matter
Image credit to: BlackLivesMatter As Conservation Scientists in the Applied Conservation Science Lab, we acknowledge the pervasive racial and socioeconomic…
Working from home… during a pandemic
Melanie displays, ‘Bears on computer screens, for when we can’t see them in the field’ while working from home during…
Operationalizing definitions of animal behaviour: building an ethogram
Defining animal behaviour requires careful observation and the use of measurable markers to quantify those behaviours. Recent calls for consistency…
Conservation Science Isn’t Always Fieldwork: And that’s a blessing too
PhD student, Lauren Eckert, pondering in the Raincoast ACS Lab. A quick Google search of the term “wildlife biologist” or…
Four months of learning
Bryant DeRoy presents key COMPASS workshop take-aways at our annual lab retreat. As the days become shorter, the campus hustle…
Groundwork
A black bear forages in the estuary. Photo: Lauren Henson. As modern scientists, we frequently deal in abstraction. We are…
Fun with the Salish Sea’s newest Emerging Stewards
Members of the Raincoast ACS lab and W̱SÁNEĆ Leadership Secondary School gathered around the freshly installed “bear hair snare.” Photo by:…
Today in International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day. February 11th likewise celebrated women – in particular, Women and Girls in the Sciences. As…
Discussion with a dataset
Like many of you, I am always pleased to go out and observe nature and wildlife. As a child, I…
