By Nat Kennedy, PhD student at UQAM A constant battle for anyone living or working on the water is biofouling: the longer any structure, from boats to buoys, remains in the water, the more that life is able to accumulate on its submerged surfaces. First come bacteria...

Par Thomas Villeneuve, étudiant à la maîtrise à l’Université de Montréal Le bioblitz a débuté le samedi 23 août à 6h du matin. Cet exercice consiste à recenser le plus d'espèces possible dans le but d’explorer la diversité des milieux naturels du Québec. Nous sommes...

Par Ariane C. Peroni, étudiante de doctorat à l’Université Concordia Du 6 juin 2024 au 11 août 2024, j’ai effectué une recherche de terrain pour collecter des données sur une population de capucins blonds. Cette population vit au cœur d’un fragment de 270 hectares de...

By Nat Kennedy, PhD student at UQAM For less than $15 (or 3 payments of $3.99), you too can unlock a strange new world using the magic of ultraviolet light! It is shocking just how many things glow in the dark when you go exploring with a blacklight. Most folks know...

By Siena Margorian, master’s student at McGill University One of the biggest challenges to studying the American eel is the mystery surrounding its life cycle. I am currently an MSc student at McGill in the only social science laboratory in the Department of Natural...

By Alexandre Fuster, Postdoctoral researcher at Université de Sherbrooke and the Insectarium of Montreal What if a snail shell could tell us not only where a snail lived, but also who it had interacted with? This question sounds strange, but it pushed me into one of...