ECOP Canada is collaborating with Exploring by the seat of your pants and the Canadian Ocean Literacy Coalition to bring the adventures and stories of Early Career Ocean Professionals (ECOP) from different disciplines to youth around the world.
Ocean Wanderers with Alana Closs
May 29th @ 12:00pm eastern
Alana Closs is a marine researcher with the Hakai Institute. She lives on Quadra Island, off the coast of Vancouver Island where she works with a team of scientists to understand the biodiversity of the Salish Sea through a series of field methodologies including scuba diving, sediment collection, net tows, and water samples. The lab Alana works with primarily specialises in the collection, microscopy, photography, and taxonomy of marine plankton.
Plankton is Greek for “wanderers” and essentially refers to any marine organism that cannot swim against the ocean current. During this talk, Alana will be presenting from a bio blitz on Galiano Island where she and her team will be working for three days to collect as many species of planktonic animals as possible to better understand the marine diversity of the area.
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