Joined: Apr 10, 2016 Last Active: Oct 7, 2024 iNaturalist Canada
Professor Emeritus, Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Underwater photographer and videographer. I live part of the year on Maui and part of the year on Pender Island. I'm almost completely naive when it comes to latin names, but can identify hundreds of species by their common names. I'm more interested in saving our oceans than memorizing. Last year as I searched the nearby shore for signs of healthy sea stars to show my grandchildren, it hit me that they may grow up without that quintessential first image of a purple sea star etched in their minds, that they may grow up accepting bleached coral as the norm. And so I do a little here and there to inform the masses that we must do something. Visual documentation of observations is an important part of that and I hope I'll be able to add significantly to this database.
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