John Largeir Talk

On October 21 Oceanographer John Largier from Bodega Marine Laboratory in California will be talking at Dalhousie University about the "zone of impact", coastal pollution and ocean characteristics.
This is a free talk and will be at the Tupper building on University Ave at 3:00 pm in theatre A.

fishing for the future

Fishing is a big deal in Nova Scotia. In fact, fishing is arguably the reason Nova Scotia was settled in the first place. Wars between the french and eanglish were faught over the last fish stocks Nova Scotia possessed.
Now its getting harder and harder to find fish to catch. This is a BIG problem for Nova Scotian fisherman. This artical proposes a way to fix this declining fish population, whether or not it is possible to do, is whole other bag of fish.

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12253181

The new land

Our text book gives a history of sea travel and describes a bit about explorers who helped to map our province.
For an excellent history of Nova Scotia, I recommend this book by Lesley Choyce. The first couple of chapter's give a history of explorers, who ventured around this great province. Much more detailed than in our text book.

Back in the day...

For those of you who have not grown up around the Halifax and even for those of you who did , but were too young to remember Sackville Downs, like myself, this is a video from Sackville Downs Raceway in Sackville, Nova Scotia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6quYZAGHaEw

You can see the pond in the middle of the track, that Dr. Conrad talked about today in class.