Matt Lemay
@littorina.bsky.social
Research Scientist at the Hakai Institute. I use eDNA and other genetic tools to study marine biodiversity.
For #PhycologyFriday we've got a new paper out summarizing 13 years of intensive seaweed surveys on the Central Coast of BC:
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
October 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
For #PhycologyFriday we've got a new paper out summarizing 13 years of intensive seaweed surveys on the Central Coast of BC:
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Reposted by Matt Lemay
Join us at the @imarest.bsky.social webinar on:
"Unlocking Ocean Secrets: Marine Mammal Monitoring Through eDNA"
22 Sept 2025 - 4pm UK time
Matt Lemay, from the OBON project "HI-BON" (led by @hakai.org) will be one of the speakers.
More info and sign up at: www.imarest.org/events/event...
"Unlocking Ocean Secrets: Marine Mammal Monitoring Through eDNA"
22 Sept 2025 - 4pm UK time
Matt Lemay, from the OBON project "HI-BON" (led by @hakai.org) will be one of the speakers.
More info and sign up at: www.imarest.org/events/event...
September 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Join us at the @imarest.bsky.social webinar on:
"Unlocking Ocean Secrets: Marine Mammal Monitoring Through eDNA"
22 Sept 2025 - 4pm UK time
Matt Lemay, from the OBON project "HI-BON" (led by @hakai.org) will be one of the speakers.
More info and sign up at: www.imarest.org/events/event...
"Unlocking Ocean Secrets: Marine Mammal Monitoring Through eDNA"
22 Sept 2025 - 4pm UK time
Matt Lemay, from the OBON project "HI-BON" (led by @hakai.org) will be one of the speakers.
More info and sign up at: www.imarest.org/events/event...
Check it out:
Our Communications Team made an amazing video about the Quadra Island Bioblitz that we ran last year.
It’s a really nice overview of how and why we do bioblitzes...
youtu.be/1Jq7LHuBDN4?...
Our Communications Team made an amazing video about the Quadra Island Bioblitz that we ran last year.
It’s a really nice overview of how and why we do bioblitzes...
youtu.be/1Jq7LHuBDN4?...
Hakai Institute's Quadra Island Bioblitz
YouTube video by Hakai Institute
youtu.be
August 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Check it out:
Our Communications Team made an amazing video about the Quadra Island Bioblitz that we ran last year.
It’s a really nice overview of how and why we do bioblitzes...
youtu.be/1Jq7LHuBDN4?...
Our Communications Team made an amazing video about the Quadra Island Bioblitz that we ran last year.
It’s a really nice overview of how and why we do bioblitzes...
youtu.be/1Jq7LHuBDN4?...
Check it out: We have a new paper out that experimentally tests the impact of Ocean Acidification on eDNA shedding and decay.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
August 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Check it out: We have a new paper out that experimentally tests the impact of Ocean Acidification on eDNA shedding and decay.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
New Paper:
We linked DNA in sediment cores with historical accounts from Indigenous community members to reconstruct ecosystem changes that occurred following a landslide event in the 1940s.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
We linked DNA in sediment cores with historical accounts from Indigenous community members to reconstruct ecosystem changes that occurred following a landslide event in the 1940s.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
August 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
New Paper:
We linked DNA in sediment cores with historical accounts from Indigenous community members to reconstruct ecosystem changes that occurred following a landslide event in the 1940s.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
We linked DNA in sediment cores with historical accounts from Indigenous community members to reconstruct ecosystem changes that occurred following a landslide event in the 1940s.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Matt Lemay
Amazing work by some very talented colleagues at the Hakai Institute. Such a cool paper!
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Mysterious killer of sea stars finally identified
Discovery of a bacterium could reveal more about massive die-off, perhaps aid recovery
www.science.org
August 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Amazing work by some very talented colleagues at the Hakai Institute. Such a cool paper!
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Amazing work by some very talented colleagues at the Hakai Institute. Such a cool paper!
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Mysterious killer of sea stars finally identified
Discovery of a bacterium could reveal more about massive die-off, perhaps aid recovery
www.science.org
August 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Amazing work by some very talented colleagues at the Hakai Institute. Such a cool paper!
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
The Hakai Institute is hosting a group of international scholars from the Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence.
Some of them got really excited about seaweed, and I wanted to share some of their amazing photos for #PhycologyFriday
More about the program: www.ofi.ca/programs/cen...
Some of them got really excited about seaweed, and I wanted to share some of their amazing photos for #PhycologyFriday
More about the program: www.ofi.ca/programs/cen...
May 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The Hakai Institute is hosting a group of international scholars from the Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence.
Some of them got really excited about seaweed, and I wanted to share some of their amazing photos for #PhycologyFriday
More about the program: www.ofi.ca/programs/cen...
Some of them got really excited about seaweed, and I wanted to share some of their amazing photos for #PhycologyFriday
More about the program: www.ofi.ca/programs/cen...
The Hakai Institute is hosting a group of international scholars from the Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence.
Today we ran a mini-bioblitz and I wanted so share some of the amazing specimen photos they took!
#invertfest #invertefest
More about the program: www.ofi.ca/programs/cen...
Today we ran a mini-bioblitz and I wanted so share some of the amazing specimen photos they took!
#invertfest #invertefest
More about the program: www.ofi.ca/programs/cen...
April 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The Hakai Institute is hosting a group of international scholars from the Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence.
Today we ran a mini-bioblitz and I wanted so share some of the amazing specimen photos they took!
#invertfest #invertefest
More about the program: www.ofi.ca/programs/cen...
Today we ran a mini-bioblitz and I wanted so share some of the amazing specimen photos they took!
#invertfest #invertefest
More about the program: www.ofi.ca/programs/cen...
Reposting this cool Hakai Institute blog post about cryptic species of blood stars:
hakai.org/for-blood-st...
hakai.org/for-blood-st...
For Blood Stars, Looks Can Be Deceiving | Hakai Institute
With genetics, scientists find sea star species hiding in plain sight.
hakai.org
February 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Reposting this cool Hakai Institute blog post about cryptic species of blood stars:
hakai.org/for-blood-st...
hakai.org/for-blood-st...
January 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Here's a Rhodolith from the central coast of BC for #PhycologyFriday !
Photo credit goes to the Hakai Institute, but that is my thumb.
Photo credit goes to the Hakai Institute, but that is my thumb.
December 6, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Here's a Rhodolith from the central coast of BC for #PhycologyFriday !
Photo credit goes to the Hakai Institute, but that is my thumb.
Photo credit goes to the Hakai Institute, but that is my thumb.
Hot off the press...Here's a really fun blog post about some of the coolest critters we observed during our Quadra Island Bioblitz in the spring of 2024.
hakai.org/species-of-t...
hakai.org/species-of-t...
“Species of the Day” Keeps Biologists at Play | Hakai Institute
The Hakai Institute is a scientific research institution that advances long-term research at remote locations on the coastal margin of British Columbia, Canada.
hakai.org
December 4, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Hot off the press...Here's a really fun blog post about some of the coolest critters we observed during our Quadra Island Bioblitz in the spring of 2024.
hakai.org/species-of-t...
hakai.org/species-of-t...
Reposted by Matt Lemay
A new study on hazelnut biogeography in the Pacific Northwest led by @SFU researcher Chelsey Geralda Armstrong and Hakai Institute researchers, reveals the profound role of Indigenous peoples in shaping hazelnut range and distribution over thousands of years🔗https://tinyurl.com/4wfcd6f5
November 20, 2024 at 9:33 PM
A new study on hazelnut biogeography in the Pacific Northwest led by @SFU researcher Chelsey Geralda Armstrong and Hakai Institute researchers, reveals the profound role of Indigenous peoples in shaping hazelnut range and distribution over thousands of years🔗https://tinyurl.com/4wfcd6f5
I just learned about #Nudivember
Here is a great collage that our media team put together....all photos are from a bioblitz that we did on the central coast of British Columbia in 2017
Here is a great collage that our media team put together....all photos are from a bioblitz that we did on the central coast of British Columbia in 2017
November 22, 2024 at 6:10 PM
I just learned about #Nudivember
Here is a great collage that our media team put together....all photos are from a bioblitz that we did on the central coast of British Columbia in 2017
Here is a great collage that our media team put together....all photos are from a bioblitz that we did on the central coast of British Columbia in 2017
Happy #phycologyfriday !
Here's a filamentous red algae I photographed under a scope a few years ago.
Here's a filamentous red algae I photographed under a scope a few years ago.
November 22, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Happy #phycologyfriday !
Here's a filamentous red algae I photographed under a scope a few years ago.
Here's a filamentous red algae I photographed under a scope a few years ago.
Science News wrote a really nice summary of our recent paper on beaked hazelnut population genetics
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Indigenous tribes engineered British Columbia’s modern hazelnut forests more than 7000 years ago
Genetic analysis of hazelnut trees could help First Nations secure land rights in Canadian courts
www.science.org
November 20, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Science News wrote a really nice summary of our recent paper on beaked hazelnut population genetics
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Check out this great article about our work combining community-science and eDNA to monitor the spread of European green crabs in BC
hakai.org/primed-to-de...
hakai.org/primed-to-de...
November 20, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Check out this great article about our work combining community-science and eDNA to monitor the spread of European green crabs in BC
hakai.org/primed-to-de...
hakai.org/primed-to-de...
I'm excited to share our new paper on hazelnut population genetics:
Genetic differentiation and precolonial Indigenous cultivation of hazelnut (Corylus cornuta, Betulaceae) in Western North America
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
This was a collaborative research project with many great co-authors
Genetic differentiation and precolonial Indigenous cultivation of hazelnut (Corylus cornuta, Betulaceae) in Western North America
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
This was a collaborative research project with many great co-authors
November 20, 2024 at 1:36 PM
I'm excited to share our new paper on hazelnut population genetics:
Genetic differentiation and precolonial Indigenous cultivation of hazelnut (Corylus cornuta, Betulaceae) in Western North America
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
This was a collaborative research project with many great co-authors
Genetic differentiation and precolonial Indigenous cultivation of hazelnut (Corylus cornuta, Betulaceae) in Western North America
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
This was a collaborative research project with many great co-authors
Reposted by Matt Lemay
Check it out...We've just uploaded new photos from our survey of zooplankton at Quadra Island
inaturalist.ca/observations...
inaturalist.ca/observations...
November 16, 2023 at 2:39 PM
Check it out...We've just uploaded new photos from our survey of zooplankton at Quadra Island
inaturalist.ca/observations...
inaturalist.ca/observations...
Reposted by Matt Lemay
Here's a wonderful new blog post about the work we're doing at the Hakai Institute using DNA to study marine biodiversity!
oceandecadenortheastpacific.org/news/the-hak...
oceandecadenortheastpacific.org/news/the-hak...
April 24, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Here's a wonderful new blog post about the work we're doing at the Hakai Institute using DNA to study marine biodiversity!
oceandecadenortheastpacific.org/news/the-hak...
oceandecadenortheastpacific.org/news/the-hak...
Chiton diversity from our Calvert Island bioblitz (in 2017) for #Invertefest
April 26, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Chiton diversity from our Calvert Island bioblitz (in 2017) for #Invertefest
Here's a wonderful new blog post about the work we're doing at the Hakai Institute using DNA to study marine biodiversity!
oceandecadenortheastpacific.org/news/the-hak...
oceandecadenortheastpacific.org/news/the-hak...
April 24, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Here's a wonderful new blog post about the work we're doing at the Hakai Institute using DNA to study marine biodiversity!
oceandecadenortheastpacific.org/news/the-hak...
oceandecadenortheastpacific.org/news/the-hak...