Fall is a bear’s busy season. Called hyperphagia, they eat up to 20,000 calories a day! You’d have to eat about 90 candy bars to reach 20,000. Bears will search far and wide for food. Give them space and never leave coolers, garbage, pet food, etc... where a bear could get it.

Fall colours accent the village of Haines Junction, which is located in #Yukon, Canada, at Kilometre 1,632 (historical Mile 1,016) of the #AlaskaHighway. The Yukon Bureau of Statistics lists the village’s population (2022) as 1,018 people #northof60 #goremote Travel Yukon

My kind of library! Every rock has an incredible story that’s hundreds of millions or billions of years in the making—explosive beginnings, metamorphism, tectonic collisions, global wanderings, ice ages, and rising or falling sea levels… #geology #earth #rocks

#SundaySpecies: Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are deeply connected to the ocean, relying heavily on sea ice to hunt seals, their primary food source. As climate change reduces sea ice, #polarbears face significant challenges in finding food and maintaining their populations.

Fall Florals Emily Kewageshig ~ Anishinaabe 2022

Autumn Franklin Carmichael 1940

The eye of a female Humpback Whale

On United Nations International Day of the Girl, I like to thank my colleagues at @SeaWomenExpeds — incredible ocean scientists, artists, scuba divers, and explorers — as we scout, record, and document a warming #Arctic and collaborate, at the community level, with Indigenous and

Kitasoo Dawn Roy Henry Vickers ~ Haida, Heiltsuk, Tsimshian 1998

Owl in the wind By Mary Pudlat, 1980, Kinngait, Nunavut 📷 CMH CD 1980-027

Pyrite encrusted arthropod fossil unearthed in New York state looks like a piece of finely crafted jewelry and is a portal into the natural world 450 million years ago #FossilFriday #paleontology #foolsgold Current Biology Natural History Museum CNN cnn.com/2024/10/29/sci…

My maternal great-grandfather, Alfred Gardiner, died in France, at age 40 and three months before the end of WWI. Alfred was a soldier with the Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment). He left behind Annie Gardiner, of Launching, Prince Edward Island, and their nine children.

Diverse perspectives are critical to advancing scientific knowledge, promoting innovation, and developing insights. Amid rising political challenges and hostile environments, join AGU (American Geophysical Union) for a powerful session on advancing #DEI in the earth sciences community.