A Celebration of Sable Island’s Past, Present and Future!
Please join us for our sixth celebration of all things Sable Island at no cost and from wherever and whenever you choose! Starting on Sunday February 22 we will host two virtual presentations a week by people who care about the island including historians, scientists, researchers, and students. The 20-minute presentations will be recorded and then posted on our YouTube channel. The main goal of the conference is to build awareness and educate people on the need to protect Sable Island’s past, present and future.
You can attend the live sessions on ZOOM on the dates/times below, or watch the recordings later. If you attend live, there will be an unrecorded question and answer session after the presentation has ended. Register (see below) and then watch for ZOOM links from our conference@sableislandfriends.ca account. Feel free to share the links within your social network.
- Sunday Feb 22 @ 7pm Atlantic: Jill Martin Bouteillier – Centuries of Caring
- Thursday Feb 26 @ 8pm Atlantic: Dan Kehler (Parks Canada) – Science on Sable: What research tells us about the park and the world around us
- Sunday Mar 1 @ 7pm Atlantic: Abbie Branchflower – Born to be Wild: An Exploration of the Sable Island Horses’ Aptitude for their Island Environment
- Thursday Mar 5 @ 8pm Atlantic: Tanya Pelrine, Fisheries adnd Oceans Canada – Conservation in Canada’s oldest Marine Protected Area, The Gully
- Sunday Mar 8 @ 7pm Atlantic: Julia Catelone – Assessing how groundwater rise impacts pond areas on Sable Island during storms and future sea-level rise scenarios
- Thursday Mar 12 @ 8pm Atlantic: Melanie Taljaard – The Digital Hoof Print of Sable Island
- Sunday Mar 15 @ 7pm Atlantic: Charles Burke – From Eel Pond Gulch to the Vale of Misery, from Dumplin Hills to Stark Odder Hollow, from the Monkey Puzzle to Sleepy Valley; place names of Sable Island
- Thursday Mar 19 @ 8pm Atlantic: Mathieu D’Astous (Parks Canada) – Sable Island’s Sustainable Micro Grid Project
- Sunday Mar 22 @ 7pm Atlantic: May Englehardt (SI Award 2025 Winner) – Sandbar Scat Survey: How Sable Island’s smallest inhabitants are benefitting from the largest
- Thursday Mar 26 @ 8pm Atlantic: April Hennigar – Protecting Sable Through Story-Telling
- Sunday Mar 29 @ 7pm Atlantic: Friends of Sable Island – The Future of Sable Island
Registration and more…
Register by emailing conference@sableislandfriends.ca. Reminder emails with ZOOM links will be sent from that account on the day before the presentation. Note that each session will have a different link.
Please consider becoming a member of Friends of Sable Island Society using the information at https://sableislandfriends.ca/friends/#Membership. Our members get early notification of events like this, as well as four email updates a year.
For information about previous Sable Island conferences go to https://sableislandfriends.ca/friends/#Conference
Thanks
We appreciate your interest in Sable Island and look forward to sharing these opportunities to learn more about it with you!
We offer this conference thanks to support from:
