Lesley Farrow: Kespukwitk Priority Place for Species at Risk.
Ahniya Ustymenko: Implementing priority conservation actions for the Kespukwitk/ Southwest Nova Scotia Priority Place; Agricultural ecosystem target.
Andrew Boyne, Tara Crew: DNR Wildlife Division – project summary.
Chad Simmons, Donna Hurlburt: Shared landscapes, shared responsibilities: a path forward for private land species at risk conservation in Nova Scotia.
Megan N. Crowley, Megan B. Landry, Matthew J. Smith, Darien Ure, Garielle Beaulieu: Parks Canada’s multi-species, site-based approach to recovery planning efforts for species of conservation concern and species at risk.
Zach Zimmermann, Nicholas Boyce, Andreas Hamann: A deep learning approach to species distribution modelling for North American tree species; implications for assisted migration.
Samantha M. Chu: Planting the seeds for knowledge exchange in Canadian forestry: perspectives from forest professionals on trust, barriers, and preferences.
Abigail Lewis, Kevin Keys, Ryan Dickie, Maggie Davidson: Integrating a bird nesting season protocol into the Family Forest Network ecological forest management research trial-reflections on the first season.
Shawn R. Craik: Uncovering the secret lives of Northern Saw-whet Owls: a community effort.
*Linda J. Hutchinson, Marie Louise Aastrup, Rielle Hoeg, Sue Abbott, Dave Shutler: Public opinion of Leach’s storm-petrels and artificial light at night in Shag Harbour and Barrington, NS.
Nina M. Newington, Lisa M. Proulx, Karen S. Achenbach, Jonathan A. Riley: Citizen science on a peninsula at Goldsmith Lake.
Jason I. Airst, Sarah Spencer: American marten occupancy in southwestern Nova Scotia.
Carter E. Feltham, Lori Phinney, Ben Herringer, Jessica Ferguson, Justin Dagley: Passive monitoring of cryptic Eastern Ribbonsnakes: a glimpse at behavioral insights with PIT tag technology.
James L. Churchill, R. Troy McMullin, Frances Anderson, Chris Miller, C. Sean Blaney, Caitlin Porter, Katrina Cruickshanks: Hot for macrolichens: Kespukwitk/Southwest Nova Scotia yields several new species for Nova Scotia and Canada.
*Rachel A. Kendall, Daina Budde, Mathew Vankoughnett: Weaving together Indigenous wisdom and Western science to increase accessibility of sweetgrass to Mi’kmaq communities.
Graham Daborn, Lorraine Whitman, Steven Cooke, Andrea Kirkwood, Sarah Hines, Nick Hill, Ian Spooner, David Garbary, Brad Toms, Alain Belliveau, John Brazner: Threats facing lakes in Kespukwitk and strategies to protect lake health and biodiversity.
*Ben Gooley, Ian Spooner, Nick Hill, Nelson O’Driscoll: Bioaccumulation of Hg and As in freshwater invertebrates from Ponhook Lake, Nova Scotia: effects of historical gold mine tailings.
*Lucy S. Boyne, Mark Mallory, Gretchen M. McPhail, Nelson J. O’Driscoll: Quantifying the mercury:calorie ratios of aquatic invertebrates from two lakes in Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site, Nova Scotia.
*Felixe Sauriol, Brittni Scott: Kejimkujik’s Angler Diaries Program: engaging visitors and monitoring fish populations.
Brad Toms: What if we took conservation seriously in Nova Scotia.
Jenn Chivers: From curiosity to conservation: inspiring local stewardship through youth nature engagement.
*Summer Carroll, Nick M. Hill, Ellie M. Goud: Effects of liming on lake shoreline plant communities.
Amos A. Creaser, Matthew D. Molyneux: LaHave River watershed project.
Maggie Davidson, Abby Lewis, Peter Bush: Old forests: identifying and protecting rare ecosystems on private woodlots in Nova Scotia.
*Sarah D. Doyle, Kendre D. Sampson, Allison K. Walker: Trap cultures and spore isolation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi from Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia salt marshes.
Keith N. Egger, Allison K. Walker: How citizen science is advancing macrofungal conservation in Nova Scotia.
*Anita Feng, Lydia Jocius, Sophie Edgar, Neil K. Hillier, Jeff Fidgen, Martin Williams, Lucas Roscoe: Phenology, prey preference, and hybridization of Leucotaraxis argenticollis - A biocontrol agent for Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Adelges tsugae).
Cameron J. Frail, Shayla M. Nickerson, Mykal D. Koloff, Jennika E. Hunsinger: Forest management for maple syrup production and biodiversity conservation: assessing OECM compatibility in Nova Scotia working forests.
Émilie Rose McBeath, Cindy Staicer: Listening for responses: ARU-based bird species monitoring before and after a single-tree selection harvest with BMPs.
*Emily A. McLean, Heather A. Cray, Tony R. Walker, Peter H. Tyedmers, Dan Kehler: Honey as a bioindicator of environmental health across Nova Scotia.
*Carys McMurray, N. Kirk Hillier, Christopher B. Edge: Non-target effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on insect communities in eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) forests in Nova Scotia.
Jeffie A. McNeil, Thomas B. Herman, Carter Feltham, Trevor Avery, Norman W. Green, Matthew J. Smith: Hatching success and variability in three Blanding's Turtle sub-populations in 2025.
Jesse Mihevc: Examining the need for Forested Wetland buffers in Southwest Nova Scotia.
*Tedi C. Pollak, Sarah D. Doyle, Allison K. Walker, Zoe Panchen: Investigating lousewort species for parasitism and mycorrhizal associations.
*Wimanshika R. Ranathunga, Ellie M. Goud, Jeremy Lundholm: Ecophysiological responses of Atlantic heath shrubs across coastal gradients.
*Avery Scott, Sarah Vascotto, Tony Walker: From Wildfire to Wildflowers: how wildfires affect Nova Scotia’s native bumblebees.
Cindy Staicer, Abby Lewis: Finding natural Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica) nests through passive acoustic monitoring.
Delbert Swinemar, Brendan Ward, Erin Pearson, Gabrielle Beaulieu, Matthew Smith: Evaluating canopy health impacts of hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) in untreated and treated eastern hemlock stands (Tsuga canadensis) (2020-2025) in Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site, Nova Scotia.
Brad Toms: The state of the Boreal Felt Lichen (Erioderma pedicellatum) population in Nova Scotia.
Brad Toms: Human impacts on Atlantic Coastal Plain Flora Lakes (2010-2025): Ten years of change.
Jacob Walker, Matthew Smith, James Churchill, Stephen Gullage, Cynthia Staicer: Protection of mature forest in Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia, Canada allowed breeding bird populations to thrive relative to regional trends, 2003-2024.
Mariya Tsehtik, Noah Hardy, Megan MacKenzie, Olivia Bennett, Taylor Wilson, Jordan Veinot: Landowner biodiversity program.
