Welcome to our second 2025 issue of the Tula Quarterly! We may be in the dog days of summer now, but the Tula Foundation has been hard at work conducting science, documenting discoveries, and deploying cutting-edge technology all around the British Columbia coast.
In this issue:
Traveling from the Global South to Canada’s wild west coast, a global crew of ocean scholars dives into hands-on science with the Hakai Institute—and returns home with fresh skills, new perspectives, and a fire to change the future of ocean research.
Located at the intersection of shifting currents and climates, Calvert Island is home to one of the richest collections of marine algae on Earth, offering a crucial record in a changing ocean.
In Guatemala’s remote highlands, health leaders are turning to TulaSalud’s Kawok smartphone app—a powerful tool for community care—to bring life-saving maternal and child health services closer to home.
This issue’s cover art, by illustrator Mercedes Minck, is inspired by the diversity of algae species that collect around British Columbia’s Calvert Island, as featured in “Calvert’s Kaleidoscopic Seaweed.”