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E.C. Smith Herbarium

  • November 18, 2025
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    Blueberries and beyond: A world-class collection processed by Acadia staff and students 

    Recently there was cause for celebration in the E.C. Smith Herbarium, part of the Irving Biodiversity Collection at Acadia University. Thanks to the dedication of researchers in Dr. Zoë Migicovsky’s lab (Biology) nearly 7000 backlogged herbarium specimens have been inventoried for integration...

  • October 9, 2025
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    Research Director Appointment at the K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre and Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens 

    The K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre and Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens are pleased to announce a leadership change with the appointment of Dr. Mark Mallory as our new Director of Research, succeeding Dr. Ian Spooner, who concludes his six-year term in the...

  • January 21, 2025
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    New Book on Wetland Restoration: Compiling over a decade of research on Brier Island Nova Scotia to support Eastern Mountain Avens, A Species at Risk 

    January 2025 marked the publication of Wetland Restoration for Endangered Species Recovery: A Multidisciplinary Case Study of Big Meadow Bog, Brier Island, Nova Scotia, an academic book detailing efforts to restore the habitat of the endangered Eastern Mountain Avens (Geum peckii) and research...

  • October 31, 2024
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    E.C. Smith Herbarium Director Dr. Allison Walker recently spoke on national news about the importance of fungi and their conservation

    The interview can be heard at the following link: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63/clip/16105037 https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63/clip/16105037

  • August 16, 2023
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    New Native Flora Course Offered this Fall

    Alain Belliveau, Irving Biodiversity Collections Manager for the E.C. Smith Herbarium and Acadia Seed Bank, is offering an exciting new course this fall semester about Native Flora in the Wapna’ki/Acadian Forest Region. Students can expect to learn about the ecology of the...

  • March 3, 2023
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    Cataloguing an Underrated Organism: Lichens in the E.C. Smith Herbarium

    There is no doubt that science has come a long way. We have discovered ways to sequence an entire human genome, we have identified around 1.2 million species on earth, and we have put people on the moon. However, when it comes...

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    February 16, 2022
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    E.C. Smith Herbarium Helps Protect Large Tract of Land in Southwest Nova Scotia

    In early 2022, the Nature Conservancy of Canada purchased nearly 1,100 hectares of old growth and mature forests, wetlands, and lakes in Upper Ohio, Nova Scotia after pulling together money from fundraising, private donors, federal and provincial governments, and the United States...

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