Surface plastics at Holyrood, NL
We found an average of just over one pieces of plastic per square km around Holyrood, Newfoundland.
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Indigneous Feminist Animal Ethics in Science: Protocols in Relation
While universities have animal ethics, the values university ethics are based upon are not necessarily Indigenous or feminist values, such as equity, humility, respect, or sovereignty…
Plastics in cod: 2016 food fishery
Data on plastics found in cod during the 2016 food fishery on the Avalon Peninsula. Data updated regularly.
How to Collect Fish Guts for Science
How to Collect Fish Guts for Science We are collecting cod and salmon guts this season (2016) in Newfoundland and Labrador Continue reading
One of the world’s lowest plastic ingestion rates in Newfoundland cod: 2.4%
The first recorded results of plastic ingestion of food fish in Newfoundland.
Classification of marine debris by citizen scientists
This project tests three different ways of classifying marine waste to determine how different methods of affect dimensions of data quality and highlight different areas of common knowledge and concern for citizen scientists.
Fish Guts!
Are your fish eating plastic? We want to find out! We will be collecting fish guts during Newfoundland’s food fishery this summer (2015) to see if fish are ingesting plastics in this area.
Participatory Citizen Science with Fogo Fishery
This project does science from the grassroots, where fishermen and women on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, create a research question, data protocol, gather data, and analyze data collaboratively with researchers.
