The Suncor Energy Fluvarium is offering a special program that is great for youth groups such as Girl Guides and Scouts!

It is a fun way to build an interest in Freshwater Conservation while earning a Fluvarium crest!

Our programs are designed to promote awareness in a ‘hands-on’ setting for community youth groups.

This program is great for unit meetings, weekend outings, or even summer camps at Pippy Park!

Call and book your group today!

For rates, times, and bookings contact

Denise at 754-3474 or kids@fluvarium.ca

As you may be aware, the Government of Canada has launched a new interactive website to gather input from the public on how to address climate change and promote clean growth.

To gather ideas, I am partnering with the Department of Geography at Memorial University, to hold a session (world café style) to get your ideas on what governments and individuals can do to reduce and adapt to climate change.

Please see attached for a presentation that includes questions and topics on which we are seeking your input. Specifically we would like to hear your ideas on:

• How and where to reduce emissions
• Ideas for new technology and job creation
• How to put a price on carbon
• Preparing for the impacts of climate change
• General ideas on climate change reduction

You (or a representative) are invited to join us at 9:30am on Friday, May 27 at Memorial University.

Your RSVP would be appreciated by noon Wednesday, May 25 to Jennifer.Burley@canada.ca as it will help us to plan accordingly and to provide you with additional logistical information.

I look forward to discussing these important subjects with you.  Your ideas will be inputted to the portal to be considered in the development of the pan-Canadian framework on climate change and clean growth.

Please do not hesitate to contact me or Jennifer Burley with any questions or comments.

Saturday, June 18, 2016,  10:00 am.
Leader:  Allan Stein | arstein@mun.ca  | (709)895-2056

Meet at the MUN Vivarium Parking Lot, off Mount Scio Road, opposite and a bit east of
the MUN Botanical Garden entrance. Park in the paved lot off that roadway, on the right very near Mount Scio Road.
NatureNL has an annual short fieldtrip on Mount Scio to view the pink lady slipper orchids.  Initially the walk was led by Charlie Horwood, long-time natural historian and a founding member of NatureNL.  Since his death, we have continued the traditional outing as the Charlie Horwood Memorial Lady Slipper Walk.  While the re-growth and development of trails in the area have markedly reduced their numbers, we normally see several hundred blooms in the 75 minute easy walk.

Open House, June 7 between 6pm and 9pm.

1. MUN Bot Spring Flower Show

Mercy Centre for Ecology and Justice

101 Mount Scio Road

St John’s

Phone 722-0082

Spring Flower Show at the Botanical Garden May 28 & 29, 2016 Members of the Newfoundland Horticultural Society will welcome spring with a beautiful display of spring flowers on Saturday, May 28, noon – 5 p.m. and Sunday, May 29, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at MUN Botanical Garden. This popular annual event will take place in the display room of the Botanical Garden’s Field Centre.  Admission is FREE!  For more information about the Newfoundland Horticultural Society, please visit: http://nfldhort.dhs.org/ For a complete listing of MUNBG programs, events and workshops, please call 864-8590 or visit http://www.mun.ca/botgarden.

Rock Garden Workshop at MUN Botanical Garden
Rock garden plants are the ideal plants for Newfoundland, as they are adapted to short growing seasons, snow and wind.  This workshop will provide an overview of the techniques required to construct a rock garden and the best plants to use.
Date:  Saturday, May 28, 2 – 4 pm Location: MUN Botanical Garden, 306 Mount Scio Road

Pre-registration is required and is available on-line.
For more information, and to register, please call 864-8590 or visit the Garden’s webpage at www.mun.ca/botgarden.

 Time: 0900-1000 Atlantic Daylight Time – 17 May 2016.

A spatial data infrastructure provides for integrated management of spatial data, information and services. A Hydrographic Office, like the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS), is uniquely placed to play a central role in the development of the marine component of SDI’s since hydrography forms the key “core geography” layer for the sea space in a particular country or region. The webinar will describe the MSDI pilot project being conducted by the CHS in the Bay of Fundy.

To join the webinar please rsvp to coinatlantic@dal.ca by 16 May 2016.

Nature Conserv Nature NL

Please join us for Lanna Campbell’s (NL Program Director, NCC) presentation on “NCC’s Salmonier River Conservation Project”

on Thursday May 19, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Building, Room SN2067, on the MUN campus.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has been working in NL for twenty years. During that time our securement work has spanned the Island, though the emphasis has been on Southwest Newfoundland. The Salmonier River Conservation Project represents a new area for NCC in NL. The area is important ecologically for a number of reasons: the forest landscape is largely intact, there is habitat for a diversity of rare lichens, and the river has a healthy population of wild Atlantic salmon. NCC’s consistent path of conducting science, securing land, and leading stewardship and engagement is underway within the Salmonier Conservation Project. Whether we are taking care of our current properties, or having discussions with willing landowners about securing new ones, NCC hopes to continue to help conserve this unique part of the province for generations to come.

Lanna Campbell is the Program Director for the Nature Conservancy of Canada in Newfoundland and Labrador. Originally from the mainland, Lanna grew up on a family farm in rural Quebec. She has an undergraduate degree in Geography and Environmental Studies from Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, and a Masters of Environmental Studies from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. During her academic work she had the opportunity to travel throughout Atlantic Canada, pursuing forest ecology research from Yarmouth Nova Scotia, to Main River, Newfoundland. Lanna has held a variety of positions following school: an instructor at Mount Allison University in the Department of Geography and Environment; an outreach coordinator for a community-based watershed group, an environmental scientist at a large-scale consulting firm, and finally a program director for the Nature Conservancy of Canada. A self-proclaimed ‘Newfoundlander by Choice’, Lanna is honoured to be working on land conservation in a province that has magnificent natural capital. She lives in Quidi Vidi with her husband, 1-year old daughter, black Labrador, and orange cat.

Electric BikeShare Project Associate

Start date: 1 June, 2016

The Western Environment Centre is looking for a summer student to help with the Electric BikeShare Project. The student will be helping to run the Corner Brook Electric BikeShare Project, which aims to reduce GHG emissions by providing sustainable transportation. The student will service bikes, sign the bikes in and out and help with events related to the project. The student will help promote sustainable transportation.

Hourly Wage Rate: $10.50

Number of Weeks: 16

Number of Hours per Week: 30.00

Please send applications by May 20, 2016 to:

outreach@wecnl.ca