Exciting news received on July 13, 2021!!
The MLSS publication – Invertebrate settlement and diversity on a glass sponge reef – was recently chosen by the Canadian Field-Naturalist journal as the runner-up for the Fletcher Award. The Fletcher Award highlights the best paper in the journal for the year. We are thrilled with this acknowledgement by the CFN!
Invertebrate settlement and diversity on a glass sponge reef by Stephanie K. Archer, Glen Dennison, Lora Tryon, Sheila Byers and Anya Dunham. Canadian Field-Naturalist 134(1): 1-15
They outlived dinosaurs, but can glass sponge reefs survive man-made warming?
They outlived dinosaurs, but can glass sponge reefs survive man-made warming?
OPP and NOTH 2021 Conferences
Mid-February was a busy week for the MLSS President and Vice-President who attended two virtual conferences that ran simultaneously: The Ocean Protection Plan (OPP) Dialogue Forum Winter 2021 was the 7th Forum organized by Transport Canada, and Nature on the Hill 2021 (NOTH) was the 3rd annual event organized by Nature Vancouver. Glen and Sheila split our time to cover as much of the conferences as we could. Read more here: OPP and NOTH 2021 Conferences by Sheila Byers
Marine Life Sanctuaries Society 