by Heather Harbord, 20 May 2021. Dr. Ken Marr, Curator of Botany at the Royal BC Museum, and one of the Club’s first speakers, gave a fascinating account of his research on the Alpine plants of Northern BC especially in the area east of highway 37.  This is a remote and expensive area to reach. … Continue reading Ken Marr – “New plant discoveries from the northern BC alpine”

by Tom Koleszar, 21 Jan 2021. Chris is a PhD student at the Université de Montréal (UdeM) currently studying extra-solar planets, or “exoplanets.” His talk started with an introduction to the domains of astronomy and the methods used in the study of the cosmos. He then focussed in on planets and especially exoplanets, describing what … Continue reading Chris Mann – “What are Exoplanets and how are they studied?”