[BNS_members] Reminder: Blomidon Naturalists monthly meeting & talk moved to Tuesday

[Caroline Beddoe]

Good day,

A reminder that the Blomidon Naturalists Society's monthly meeting & 
talk for May has been moved to Tuesday May 16th (from Monday May 15th - 
the usual third Monday of the month, due to meeting location 
circumstances) and will be held at the Wolfville Lions Club.

All welcome to join on Tuesday May 16th at 7:00 pm for social in-person, 
followed by the meeting & talk at 7:30 pm. In-person at the Wolfville 
Lions Club (36 Elm Ave) and online on Zoom (Zoom registration: 
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvde-oqj4tGdYKZSnJACZhqbQkumpv_W5P 
[1])

We are excited to have Elisabeth Kosters present the following talk: The 
Geologic History of the Minas Basin.

The rocks exposed in the cliffs around Minas Basin and the sediments 
swirling around in its waters and along its shores are testimony to 330 
million years of earth history. We can learn about this fascinating 
history by studying the evidence presented to us: fossils, minerals, 
geologic structures, tidal sediments and marshes. People have long found 
necessary resources here; their needs have shifted from when the Mik'maq 
hunted for fish and game to Colonial needs of coal and other minerals 
and - more recently - the need to harness the tides to provide us with 
clean energy in a time of global warming and sea level rise. This 
presentation will you on a virtual field trip around Minas Basin, 
beginning at Blue Beach and ending with the basalts capping the North 
Mountain and forming Five Islands.

-- 
Caroline Beddoe
  She/her
  613-619-1098
  Program Coordinator
  Blomidon Naturalists Society
  Wolfville, Nova Scotia

_ Blomidon Naturalists Society activities take place in Mi'kma'ki, the 
traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq People. We 
acknowledge that we have a responsibility to honour and learn about 
their histories and current cultures and to actively work in support of 
reconciliation. We are committed to fostering respectful and sustainable 
relationships with the Indigenous Peoples of this land, with all other 
organisms, with the land and with the water._

Links:
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[1] 
https://blomidonnaturalists.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0dbe0d10c2ef002331c94c4f9&id=0db3161193&e=38f027a68e
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