Dalhousie Science News

During August and September, the Northwest Atlantic Ocean’s sea surface temperatures creep up to just below 20 degrees Celsius. The warm waters bring with them some cold blooded creatures: sharks.

Over a year after a 63-foot female blue whale — the largest animal species on Earth — was sighted floating off the coast of Nova Scotia, Dal’s Gordon Price, Chris Harvey-Clark, Christopher Nelson and a team of volunteers are working to turn the loss into a learning opportunity.

Dalhousie professor uses statistical techniques to determines authorship of long disputed Beatles favourites.

Dalhousie Professor finds that rat control should be an urgent conservation priority on many remote tropical islands in an effort to protect coral.

Kate Pepler (BA’16) is set to open Halifax’s first zero-waste café and store this fall — the latest chapter in her deep dedication to sustainability. Environment, Sustainability and Society Science Environmental Programs Alumni

New funding from the Government of Canada will support Dal researchers in protecting and restoring coastline habitats in Nunavut.

Dalhousie University scientists forecast the northern part of the Gulf of Mexico will experience a hypoxic zone, or an area of low oxygen also known as a dead-zone, about three times the size of Prince Edward Island this summer.

Three minutes of “trash talk” about the Bahamas helped Marine Management student Kristal Ambrose win over the audience and the judges at the Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) finals at Dalhousie on Thursday evening.

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sail across the Pacific Ocean and study the Western Garbage Patch inspired Marine Management Kristal Ambrose to start a plastic pollution revolution.