Category: Updates from the Crew
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Journey Across The Pacific Crest Trail
One of our staff members, Carlene Gallant, took a six month leave from BIO to trek across the Pacific Crest Trail. She will be giving us periodic updates throughout the journey and we will share her adventures with you. This is what she has experienced so far:
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Barcoding Canada’s Plants at the UBC Herbarium – Beaty Museum
For the past two weeks, we have had a small team scanning and tissue sampling plants at the University of British Columbia Herbarium in the beautiful Beaty Museum in Vancouver, BC. As we discussed in an earlier post, BIO is coordinating a project involving researchers across Canada to DNA barcode all of Canada’s 5582…
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Painting the Picture of Kootenay
It is I, your humble BIObuser, Martin, come to enthral and enlighten you of our glorious trip to British Columbia. So to continue our conversation about stars last week, this week I took the most amaz-… wait, you don’t want to hear about stars again do you? No I didn’t think so. Really, two blogs…
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Make it or Lake it
Hello again! We are back in British Columbia at Kinaskan Lake Provincial Park. It’s been quite a change from Kluane to Kinaskan, from a huge mountainous park to a small, quiet park on the lake.
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And now a word from Renee
Oh hayyyyyy everyone. After two grand weeks on the open road I believe that I have now fully immersed myself into the wild. Bug spray has become a three-in-one combo of repellant, hairspray and perfume.
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Birthday on the Bus
Yesterday was my birthday and to celebrate, on Monday, the girls and I went for a morning horse ride through grassland areas with Mountain Meadow Trail Rides just outside of Waterton Lakes National Park.
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Rainy Day
The Rocky Mountains are a beautiful sight to behold with many interesting flora and fauna associated, however along with the interesting terrain comes unpredictable and often unpleasant weather. Evidently, this makes insect collecting difficult for the crew; so today during one of these rainy spells we sorted insects in the safety of the BIObus.