Congratulations to Dr. Mohammad Amirian (Statistics) and Dr. Nuwanthi Samarasinghe (Oceanography) who defended their Ph.D. theses this summer!

Plankton images from the Bedford Basin (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) sampled on 7 April 2025. Images taken by our lab manager, Dr. Ruby Hu.

In January 2025 we took water samples from 10 and 40 m depth in the Bedford Basin (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada). The following two collages show images of the 51-335 µm size fraction taken and arranged by our lab manager, Dr. Ruby Hu.

Happy new year to all!

Nuwanthi Samarasinghe and Niall McGinty with help of much of the rest of the lab have started sampling the spring bloom plankton in the Bedford Basin.

Take a look at some of the plankton community contributing to this year’s bloom (images taken by Laura Bretherton and Ruby Hu).