Hakai Institute

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Thanks @CanadaDev for highlighting the important work of @TulaSalud, which has been helping to improve healthcare services for women and girls in remote communities in Guatemala for over 20 years. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yyfvxtr7

Congrats to Katrina Pyne and former @hakaimagazine editor Jude Isabella for earning two nominations in the 2025 @DPAwards. Their powerful visual feature “Where the River Runs Pink” explores the fight to beat back invasive pink salmon in Norway's rivers🔗 tinyurl.com/mtt38s8e

A new study reveals the Broken Group Islands off the west coast of Vancouver Island are a bright spot for shellfish populations in the northeast Pacific Ocean—showing a sustainable relationship between local First Nations and shellfish over millennia. 🔗tinyurl.com/5psvxjsa

Hakai Institute researchers monitor sea star populations for signs of wasting disease around Quadra Island. A recent low tide at Hyacinth Bay gave them the opportunity to explore the biodiversity tucked into the crevices—including juvenile sunflower sea stars.

Thanks to @TheTyee for covering a new study led by @UNBC professor and Hakai Institute scientist Brian Menounos. It finds that glaciers in the western US and Canada have lost 23% of their volume since 2000—and 12% in just the past four years. 🔗tinyurl.com/3spmfjpy

The Hakai geospatial team recently took photographer Grant Callegari over the Klinaklini Glacier—the largest glacier in western North America and a crucial watershed that's being threatened by rapid glacial melt.

Gone with the glaciers: Researchers track unprecedented ice loss - @HakaiInstitute via Sadie HARLEY, Robert EGAN @physorg_com phys.org/news/2025-06-g…

A study published in Geophysical Research Letters, led by Hakai Institute scientist and @UNBC professor Brian Menounos, reveals that glaciers in western Canada, the US, and Switzerland lost around 12% of their ice between 2021 and 2024. Full release: 🔗tinyurl.com/439yk6vf

A recent article, originally published in Canada’s @NatObserver, highlights how designating endangered sunflower sea stars under Canada's Species at Risk Act could offer a ray of hope for their survival against sea star wasting disease. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3x4kbts5

Read about how Christina Munck uses kelp and other seaweeds left on the shores of Calvert Island to nourish the gardens at the Hakai Institute facilities, which boast potatoes, garlic, herbs, berries, and more 🔗 tinyurl.com/6h9e2kx4

Our friends at @DataStreamH2O sat down with Hakai Institute’ ecosystem scientist Ian Giesbrecht to discuss ongoing research across British Columbia’s watersheds. The data from this work is accessible on Pacific DataStream’s open-access water data portal 🔗tinyurl.com/yc73499d

New research led by Jennifer McHenry and co-authored by Hakai Institute scientists offers the first national assessment of kelp’s carbon-storage potential in Canada, providing a framework for carbon accounting in habitats like kelp forests. Full paper🔗 tinyurl.com/mv695vfv

The Hakai Institute is a leader in DNA barcoding for marine life. Through bioblitzes and collaborations, Hakai Institute scientists have contributed thousands of new DNA sequences to the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD). Learn more 🔗 tinyurl.com/4ffnaece

We’re taking a brief nature break to admire this aerial photo our team recently took of the Hakai Institute’s Calvert Island Ecological Observatory. Have you been to Calvert? You can tell us in the comments!

Bushwhacking, river wading, and “secondhand fun:” Na̲nwak̲olas Council, 5 First Nations, and the Hakai Institute take us behind the scenes of the 50 Watersheds Project studying the impacts of forest management and climate change on salmon habitats 🔗 tinyurl.com/msrksfab

Invited by Na̲nwak̲olas Council to film the carving of a traditional red cedar canoe, Hakai Institute videographer Grant Callegari reflects on how working with ancient canoes in his native Scotland kicked off a full-circle journey of connection. Read more🔗tinyurl.com/2s4e3ap9

Congrats to former @hakaimagazine editor @toughcitywriter for being nominated in the long-form feature writing category of the @MagAwards. “The First First Responders” explores the history of First Nations communities as first responders on BC’s coast🔗tinyurl.com/2dp5tbar

The Hakai Institute biogenomics team just ran a mini bioblitz with 10 international ocean scholars doing fieldwork on Quadra Island as part of the @POGO_Ocean program. During the Species of the Day competition, they shared amazing photos of everything from ulvas to urchins:

Hakai Institute scientists have been working with Mamalilikulla First Nation Guardians to monitor the Gwa̲xdlala/Nala̲xdlala (Lull/Hoeya) Marine Refuge for ecosystem changes. But diving to the Hoeya Sill requires navigating challenging currents and tides🔗tinyurl.com/nhdx5z9f

Congratulations to Tula Communications’ @serena_renner for her Best News Coverage nomination in the @DPAwards. Her finalist @hakaimagazine feature is about the historic land-back agreement between the Haida Nation and British Columbia. Full story 🔗 tinyurl.com/mpm7ndzn