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It's widely assumed that False Creek is so polluted that it is devoid of life. We’re here to say, in fact, no — False Creek is ALIVE!
In this episode, anchor Matt Brown sits down with Chris Harley and Colleen Kellogg, to discuss the ways we can conceive of different levels of biodiversity, the features of False Creek (both physical and social) that affect it, the impacts of climate change, how False Creek could become a Living lab, and the 2022 BioBlitz: a community science survey that revealed over 500 different forms of life in False Creek — including some new to science!
Chris Harley is a professor in the Zoology Department in the Institute for Oceans and Fisheries at UBC, and studies the impact of climate change on rocky coasts. He leads the Harley Lab, where he and his students investigate how climatic factors and biological relationships interact to create ecological patterns in time and space.
Colleen Kellogg is a Research Scientist and Microbial Oceanographer with the Hakai Institute. Her research focuses on studying plankton communities and microbial ecology in coastal margins.
Explore the 2022 False Creek BioBlitz on iNaturalist, and find the eDNA and other data on the Hakai Institute's GitHub
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