Pub Date : 2021-10-29DOI: 10.15273/pnsis.v51i2.11163
Keith Williams, Z. Lucas
This study documents 27 taxa of Higher Fungi found on Sable Island, a remote emergent sand bar 160 km east of the Nova Scotia mainland. Of these, two are new basidiomycete records for the province, Deconica subcoprophila and Volvopluteus aff. gloiocephalus. Thirteen other taxa represent range extensions within Nova Scotia. Suillus luteus is suggested as the probable identity of the only ectomycorrhizal fungusdescribed colonizing the roots of the solitary pine tree growing on Sable Island. Keywords: coprophilous fungi, coastal dunes, Deconica, Suillus luteus, Volvopluteus
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Pub Date : 2021-10-28DOI: 10.15273/PNSIS.V51I2.11165
A. Diamond
N/A
N/A
{"title":"Seabirds in a changing ocean: an overview of 20 years of research and monitoring on Machias Seal Island, Bay of Fundy, Canada","authors":"A. Diamond","doi":"10.15273/PNSIS.V51I2.11165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15273/PNSIS.V51I2.11165","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>N/A</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":153215,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science (NSIS)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123529053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-04DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-58278-4
K. Vohland, A. Land-Zandstra, Luigi Ceccaroni, R. Lemmens, J. Perelló, Marisa Ponti, R. Samson, Katherin Wagenknecht
{"title":"The Science of Citizen Science","authors":"K. Vohland, A. Land-Zandstra, Luigi Ceccaroni, R. Lemmens, J. Perelló, Marisa Ponti, R. Samson, Katherin Wagenknecht","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-58278-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58278-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":153215,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science (NSIS)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131868219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-04DOI: 10.15273/PNSIS.V51I2.11164
M. Dadswell
Mysids (Mysida) or opossum shrimp are nektonic Crustacea found worldwide in freshwater, hypogean, coastal marine or deep-sea habitats. A poorly known, highly localized species Mysis gaspensis O.S. Tattersall, 1954 is found only in Atlantic Canada and Maine, USA. During spring to autumn, localized populations form aggregations at low tide in littoral estuarine environments but individuals also occur at littoral coastal sites. In boreal habitats, this mysid has a univoltine, semelparous life cycle. Beginning in March-April, juveniles are released from the female marsupium at 2.0-2.5 mm total length (TL). Growth in TL is linear (r2 = 0.90), and growth in wet weight is exponential (b = 2.96). Females attain 14.1-16.5 mm TL and males 13.9-25.5 mm TL, by November when they begin maturation.During November-January, penultimate and ultimate males and females migrate seaward where copulation is presumed to occur. Males die after copulation. Development of young during winter results in a mixture of embryo development stages in individual female marsupia by spring. Mean brood size is 59 embryos (range 32-83). Females reoccupy estuarine habitats during March-April and release their young. Females survive after release of young and attain a maximum length of ~20.0 mm TL, but most die or are predated upon by late July. Juveniles and adults of some populations form highly visible aggregations during low tide in the shallow water of estuaries occupying sites with low velocity currents (12-41 cm/s) and near the limit of salinity (0.5-19.0). Aggregations range in size up to 38,000 individuals but the population in some estuaries is often scattered at low tide in small groups or individuals on the down-stream side of rocks or underwater structures.Keywords: aggregations; brood size; growth; maturation; opossum shrimp; reproduction
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Pub Date : 2021-10-04DOI: 10.15273/PNSIS.V51I2.11161
T. Fedak
N/A
N/A
{"title":"Elizabeth Raymond King – A geologist inspired by Bay of Fundy minerals and the Nova Scotian Institute of Science","authors":"T. Fedak","doi":"10.15273/PNSIS.V51I2.11161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15273/PNSIS.V51I2.11161","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>N/A</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":153215,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science (NSIS)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131557278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-04DOI: 10.15273/PNSIS.V51I2.11162
D. C. Gordon
The Marine Ecology Laboratory (MEL) was one of the principal federal scientific laboratories at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO) in Dartmouth, NS. Created in 1965 as an independent laboratory under the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, it grew out of the previous Atlantic Oceanographic Group with the broad mandate to study the structure and dynamics of marine ecosystems supporting marine fisheries. With time, it developed a well-rounded program of basic and applied ecological research and earned an international reputation for excellence. In 1987, it fell victim to a major reorganization of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, driven by Ottawa managers, and was closed despite widespread protest from the scientific community. However, once the dust had settled from this unfortunate incident and, despite declining resources, ecological research at BIO continued to flourish under a new organizational structure.
{"title":"REMEMBERING THE MARINE ECOLOGY LABORATORY, BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY, 1965-1987: AN HISTORICAL AND PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE","authors":"D. C. Gordon","doi":"10.15273/PNSIS.V51I2.11162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15273/PNSIS.V51I2.11162","url":null,"abstract":"The Marine Ecology Laboratory (MEL) was one of the principal federal scientific laboratories at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO) in Dartmouth, NS. Created in 1965 as an independent laboratory under the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, it grew out of the previous Atlantic Oceanographic Group with the broad mandate to study the structure and dynamics of marine ecosystems supporting marine fisheries. With time, it developed a well-rounded program of basic and applied ecological research and earned an international reputation for excellence. In 1987, it fell victim to a major reorganization of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, driven by Ottawa managers, and was closed despite widespread protest from the scientific community. However, once the dust had settled from this unfortunate incident and, despite declining resources, ecological research at BIO continued to flourish under a new organizational structure. ","PeriodicalId":153215,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science (NSIS)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129779458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-28DOI: 10.15273/PNSIS.V51I1.10871
P. Wells, D. Richardson
N/A
N/A
{"title":"Addressing the crisis in biodiversity – our role","authors":"P. Wells, D. Richardson","doi":"10.15273/PNSIS.V51I1.10871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15273/PNSIS.V51I1.10871","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>N/A</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":153215,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science (NSIS)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126497960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-02-04DOI: 10.15273/PNSIS.V51I1.10739
Curtis Martin
Weak science communication coupled with misinformation and disinformation has resulted in major challenges for environmental decision-makers, particularly in areas of climate change and marine renewable energy. Interpersonal communication strategies provide the means of facilitating a shift to two-way communication, as they encourage science conversations between communicators and citizens. Science communicators should make themselves more personally known to their audiences. They should communicate using shared stories and conversational language to enable them to relate better with their audiences. In addition, institutions, agencies, networks, and organizations should adapt and support the use of interpersonal strategies by their science communicators.
{"title":"Humans are interpersonal beings – why isn’t science communication interpersonal?","authors":"Curtis Martin","doi":"10.15273/PNSIS.V51I1.10739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15273/PNSIS.V51I1.10739","url":null,"abstract":"Weak science communication coupled with misinformation and disinformation has resulted in major challenges for environmental decision-makers, particularly in areas of climate change and marine renewable energy. Interpersonal communication strategies provide the means of facilitating a shift to two-way communication, as they encourage science conversations between communicators and citizens. Science communicators should make themselves more personally known to their audiences. They should communicate using shared stories and conversational language to enable them to relate better with their audiences. In addition, institutions, agencies, networks, and organizations should adapt and support the use of interpersonal strategies by their science communicators. ","PeriodicalId":153215,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science (NSIS)","volume":"163 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121325655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-25DOI: 10.15273/PNSIS.V51I1.10743
P. Wells
N/A
N/A
{"title":"Mammals of Prince Edward Island and Adjacent Marine Waters","authors":"P. Wells","doi":"10.15273/PNSIS.V51I1.10743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15273/PNSIS.V51I1.10743","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>N/A</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":153215,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science (NSIS)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123468635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-03-11DOI: 10.15273/pnsis.v50i2.10004
R. France
Marine environmental historians and ethnobiologists have resorted to imaginative means with which to back-cast the temporal frame of reference in order to assess recent anthropogenic changes. The present study, in support of previous work from around the world, indicates that anecdotal accounts from eyewitnesses of purported sightings of sea serpents provides indirect evidence that marine animals in Nova Scotia have been subjected to anthropocentric pressure for a much longer period than commonly presumed. This involves not only direct fishery exploitation, but also perhaps from being bycatch due to entanglement in deployed gear.Key words: Unidentified marine object, entanglement, fishing gear
{"title":"Early entanglement of Nova Scotian marine animals in pre-plastic fishing gear or maritime debris: indirect evidence from historic ‘sea serpent’ sightings","authors":"R. France","doi":"10.15273/pnsis.v50i2.10004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15273/pnsis.v50i2.10004","url":null,"abstract":"Marine environmental historians and ethnobiologists have resorted to imaginative means with which to back-cast the temporal frame of reference in order to assess recent anthropogenic changes. The present study, in support of previous work from around the world, indicates that anecdotal accounts from eyewitnesses of purported sightings of sea serpents provides indirect evidence that marine animals in Nova Scotia have been subjected to anthropocentric pressure for a much longer period than commonly presumed. This involves not only direct fishery exploitation, but also perhaps from being bycatch due to entanglement in deployed gear.Key words: Unidentified marine object, entanglement, fishing gear","PeriodicalId":153215,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science (NSIS)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121679314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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