Winter Sea Birds of Gabriola

"My work with the Friends of Silva Bay monitoring seabirds in the Georgia Strait and in Silva Bay helps with seabird research and ties in with my work in the Arctic, a project in which long term monitoring for the last 30 years is helping us track change in Arctic ecosystems."

Jenn's talk will be accompanied by her slides of local seabirds as well as ones from Coats Island, Nunavut and other TBMU colonies that Jenn helps monitor in the Eastern Canadian Arctic.

Many thanks to Jenn for an engrossing talk that covered the basic science and importance of monitoring seabirds as well as tales of dodging polar bears, days spent at incredible heights on sheer Arctic cliffs, and the troubling plastic debris accumulating in even our most remote ecosystems.

Marine biologist, educator, and MS candidate at UVIC working in Dr. John Dower's Zooplankton Ecology in partnership with Environment Canada and funded by International Polar Year and NSERC, Gabriolan Jenn Provencher talks about her work monitoring our sea birds, here and in the Arctic.