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10/26/2017

What else is out there?

09/29/2017

What does the future for look like for people and oceans? The Dalhousie Marine Affairs class intends to find out. Check out this introductory video for the 2017 Sustainable Oceans Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, produced by The Lowlander's Simon Ryder-Burbidge. If you missed the conference last weekend, there will be others, and more to come on ocean research efforts from the Marine Affairs Program. But don't wait until next year to get involved in ocean conservation! Go your find your Blue Planet today.

Presenting the 2017 Sustainable Oceans Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia An introductory video by the Dalhousie Marine Affairs Program.

09/15/2017

How many times have you opened up your Facebook app in the last half hour? Lost track? You're not alone. A poetry short by The Lowlander's Blake Freier.

More than just friends? Attached at the hip – Literally.

08/13/2017

Elizabeth Worden on her experience at the Science Outside the Lab North workshop, and on charting a new path forward for Canadian science.

Charting a pathway to better science. Elizabeth Worden at Science Outside the Lab North.

08/11/2017

A joint project between Dalhousie University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), led by WHOI guest student Simon Ryder-Burbidge, wants to know how you connect with the ocean. More information and a link to Simon's survey for Falmouth residents at our website:

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Help us build a model for more engaged, citizen-led ocean policy.

A joint project between Dalhousie University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, led by graduate researcher Simon Ryder-Burbidge, wants to know how...

07/01/2017

Many things to celebrate as Canada turns 150 today. As the flags fly and the beers flow, we take a moment to consider how this country could be even better. With The Lowlander's Isabel Maddison.

As Canada turns 150, we should reanimate negotiations by forgiving First Nations’ treaty debts.

06/30/2017

New from Lowlander Radio. Planet Plankton. Named from the Greek planktos, translating to "errant," or "wanderer," microscopic plankton make up a significant portion of the Earth's total biomass. But in many ways these little guys remain an enigma. We don't know much about them, and we don't know just how many species might be out there, but it's a lot. Scientists have only explored about five-percent of the ocean so far, but everywhere they've gone, they've found plankton. It's estimated that plankton provide approximately half of the oxygen on the planet. For every second life-giving breath we take, we have plankton to thank. Pretty spectacular, right? This is the Plankton Planet. Photo via The Plankton Chronicles at Deep Sea News.

06/23/2017

Travelling through Limpopo and Western Cape; South Africa's northeastern bushveld and southern Garden Route. By the brother-sister photography team of Simon and Charlotte Ryder-Burbidge.

06/06/2017

The Rhododendrons of New England

The genus rhododendron represents more than 1,000 plant species globally, widely distributed across continents between latitudes of 80°N and 20°S in the wild. Each native species is adapted to its respective climate. Many of the rhododendrons we see in the gardens of the northern United States and Canada, however, are hybrids: products of decades of cross-breeding by botanists to combine the attractive colours of species like the Himalayan R. arboreum, and the hardiness of species like the Appalachian-native R. catawbiense.

These hybrids were the pride of their creators, whose skills were popularized when rhododendron fervor swept America at the country's first official "World's Fair," or international trading exhibition in 1876. There, in Philadelphia, merchant Anthony Waterer introduced the nation to over 80 species of rhododendron from across the globe, and work began immediately to breed crowd-pleasing garden plants that could survive the harsh winters of the northern U.S.

The hardy hybrids became known as the "ironclads," and were given colloquial nicknames like 'Mrs. Harry Ingersoll', 'Parsons Grandiflorum' or 'Purpureum Elegans', among others. Many of these breeds remain today throughout the New England region and across the North.

For more, check out Karen Madsen's "In Pursuit of Ironclads."

A brief collection of blooming rhododendrons, after rain in southeastern Massachusetts.

06/06/2017

A brief collection of blooming rhododendrons, after rain in southeastern Massachusetts.

06/03/2017

Blake Freier searches for the things up high at California's Yosemite National Park and Panama City, among other places in this Lowlander micro-album.

Up Top: Searching for the Taller Things, with Blake Freier on May 26, 2017. 12 photos by THE LOWLANDER

06/01/2017

Officially opening up The Lowlander's new YouTube channel!

Proudly presenting Seeing Blue, produced by the Dalhousie Marine Affairs Program in association with The Lowlander. Scheduled for release at the 2017 Sustain...