Join GSA and RAVEN for a creative workshop exploring our relationships with place, climate change, grief, belonging, and collective care.
What sustains us through times of change, when the ground beneath our feet seems strange and unreal?
Solastalgia describes the distress we feel when “home” doesn’t feel like home anymore, a sense of homesickness one feels when the places we live start changing around us.
We are pleased to offer a Green Shores Level 1 in North Saanich that is open to the public with priority given to local residents. Green Shores Level 1 introduces participants to shoreline principles and management practices, with an emphasis on the purpose and application of the Green Shores credit and rating systems.
Stream restoration has become a catch-all phrase nationwide to describe all sorts of river management activities including flood and erosion control, habitat enhancement and endangered species recovery, and sediment and nutrient reduction efforts. An understanding of fluvial geomorphology can be helpful in establishing the underlying causes for stream degradation and bank erosion, anticipating how the stream will change over time if no restoration occurs, developing appropriate restoration strategies for the given setting, and foreseeing how streams will respond to a proposed restoration project. In this way, the actual needs for restoration can be documented, restoration projects tailored for a given site, and better restoration outcomes achieved. This course will utilize examples from around the country (and in fact the world) with particular focus on New England, the Pacific Northwest, and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, but will be of value to all, regardless of location, as the basic principles of fluvial geomorphology and stream restoration to be covered in the course are applicable everywhere.
Friends of the San Juans, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University and the University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories will share results of a collaborative eelgrass research project in San Juan County including:
new countywide eelgrass mapping and 20-year change analysis;
wasting disease resiliency research; and a
land use impact analysis.
Join the Seagrass Collective for our Fall Roundtable. Our goal is to create a space for people involved in seagrass stewardship across BC and Washington to reconnect. We invite you to share updates on your work and compare observations and takeaways from the summer season.
A guided November nature walk exploring seasonal changes, the sensations of the intertidal, and our relationships with a changing coastline.
Join us for a special screening of the Salish Sea Trilogy, featuring award-winning short films by filmmaker Jessica Plumb that explore the plight of the Southern Resident Killer Whales and the urgent need to protect their ocean home.
The Coastal Habitats Learning & Knowledge Hub is pleased to invite you to Equipment Libraries in Practice, a webinar highlighting how equipment libraries and lending programs can support monitoring, restoration, and stewardship.
Join the Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF) for a dive into our 2026 State of Salmon Report: a data-driven overview of the state and trends of all six species of Pacific salmon across British Columbia and the Yukon.
We are hosting a biodiversity conference in late February, 2027 to convene the biodiversity community to connect, learn, and share towards the goal of building a collaborative biodiversity observation network in BC.