The following links connect to the web pages of organisations or individuals involved in science in Nova Scotia, or external sites of scientific interest. Suggestions for further valuable links of relevance to science in Nova Scotia are welcome. Please send your suggestions to nsis@chebucto.ns.ca.

Web Pages of Scientific Institutions in Nova Scotia

• Atlantic Geoscience Society
• Acadia University Faculty of Pure and Applied Science
• Bedford Institute of Oceanography
• Dalhousie University Faculty of Science.
• Geological Survey of Canada Atlantic
• Nova Scotia Museum
• NRC Institute for Marine Biosciences
• Saint Mary's University Faculty of Science

Web Pages of Science-based Initiatives in Nova Scotia

• Discovery Centre

• Inspiring You  NSIS Council member Surjit Verma's award-winning programs: Keeping Your Dreams Alive and Science - A Family Affair

• The Cumberland Regional Economic Development Association maintains an excellent site on the Fossil Cliffs at Joggins:
  Joggins Fossil Cliffs
  
    The NS Museum also has interesting material relating to the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, and also to other fossil sites throughout Nova Scotia. See, for example, the two websites below:
  The Joggins Fossil Cliffs     Fossils of Nova Scotia

•   Dr. John H. Calder, of the NS Dept. of Natural Resources, has written a paper entitled
    "Coal Age Galapagos": Joggins and the Lions of Nineteenth Century Geology
    The paper was published in Atlantic Geology, 42, 37-51 (2006). A link is provided here (4.7 MB).

• Tools to assist students, teachers and parents are available at:
  Nova Scotia Youth Experiences in Science (NSYES)

Home Pages of Individual Members of NSIS

• Jonathan Blay
• Georgia Pe-Piper

Other Science-Related Links

• BoFEP  Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership
• Canada Wide Virtual Science Fair
• Novel Tech Ethics   Events
• Ocean Sciences Databases on Oceanic Conditions
• Sable Island Green Horse Society
• Science Alive! The New Zealand Science Centre
• The Society for Amateur Scientists

• APICS UNDERGRADUATE PSYCHOLOGY CONFERENCE 2009
    May 6—7, 2009, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax

• The conference consisted of oral and poster presentations of undergraduate student research from the Atlantic region.
• The Institute sponsored a prize at this conference, for best presentation of basic research. The winner was Rebecca Lethbridge from Memorial University. Her poster presentation was titled: "Intrahippocampal infusion of the B-adrenoreceptor agonist Isoproterenol potentiates the perforant path-evoked population spike in the dentate gyrus of Urethane-anesthetized rats". Rebecca's certificate was presented by Jason Frenette, the NSERC representative for the Atlantic Region.
  

  Jason Frenette presents the NSIS Certificate to Rebecca Lethbridge
  
  Click on the picture for a larger image.
  
  Photo credit: RPM Productions