December 6th, 2024
In September 2024, Guatemala’s national news outlet Prensa Libre published a story about the quick response by frontline health workers to the condition of a malnourished child. The child, Ada, lives in the remote community of Tucurú, Alta Verapaz, and health workers were able to monitor and respond quickly because she was registered for TulaSalud’s digital health app, Kawok.
The work of Hakai Institute researcher Alyssa Gehman, looking into the causes of sea star wasting disease, was featured in both Canadian Geographic and Vox.
Several times a year, a team of BC scientists treks into the Vancouver Island mountains to collect samples of the snowpack so they can gather data and determine whether the snowpack is declining—and if so, by how much. This data will become crucial in the future to determine how much communities will need to ration water because of climate change.
The threat of flash flooding on the Chilcotin River in British Columbia has subsided following a large landslide on July 30, 2024 that dammed the river. Brian Menounos has been working with the Hakai Institute, using LiDAR to map how the landscape around the landslide site and downriver has changed.
Announced October 24, 2024, the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) has partnered with the Marine Institute at Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador and the Hakai Institute to launch a prestigious, multidisciplinary and multi-location training program to enhance the ocean-observation skills of 10 early-career scientists from around the world.
The couple has been donating their personal funds to the Tula Foundation since they established the charity in 2001. Tula is their legacy, and they want to ensure that its numerous projects will stay afloat for years to come. This might be their last donation, but their work is not over yet.
