Welcome to our first 2025 issue of the Tula Quarterly! Now that the sun and the blossoms have returned, spring into a fresh collection of stories about Tula Foundation science, discoveries, and cutting-edge technology.
In this issue:
Hakai Institute videographer Grant Callegari shares his full-circle journey to a new film project about a traditional cedar canoe recently built on northern Vancouver Island by three generations of Indigenous carvers.
Artificial intelligence and deep learning are transforming the way the Hakai geospatial team monitors mussel beds on British Columbia’s Central Coast.
Members of the 50 Watersheds Project—a research collaboration between the Hakai Institute and Na̲nwak̲olas Council—take us behind the scenes of their fieldwork to study salmon habitat.
Biological oceanographer Justin Del Bel Belluz looks to the understudied Central Coast to find out how shrinking glaciers could be creating conditions ripe for harmful algal blooms.
This issue’s cover art by illustrator Mercedes Minck is inspired by Hakai Institute researchers diving into the rich biodiversity of the cold-water fjords of British Columbia’s Central Coast—featured in “When the Tide Is Just Right” and “Short Take: Threatened Sea Stars Are Finding Refuge in BC Fjords.”