A highlight of the 2025 season was this documentary film project on the St. Lawrence Estuary ecosystem, produced for the German broadcasters ARD, NDR, SWR, and the Austrian ORF, in collaboration with the nature film production company Coraxfilm, a team that has specialized in nature documentaries for 25 years. The project aimed to capture high-quality…
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Each year, the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa presents the Nature Inspiration Awards. These prestigious awards recognize individuals, businesses and not-for-profits that show leadership, innovation and creative approaches to sustainability in order to connect Canadians with nature and the natural world. The Mériscope was one of five finalists in the small and medium-sized nonprofit…
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For the first time, from August 2022 until February 2023, a joint project of a primary school in Zumikon (Switzerland) and MérisCool (Canada, Switzerland) takes place. Within the framework of this weekly talent program, two cross-grade groups of primary school children (2nd/3rd and 4th/5th grades, respectively) will dive into the fascinating underwater world of our…
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Using next-generation tracking, biochemical tracers, and genomics to advance understanding of migration, feeding, and population structure of minke whales in the St. Lawrence (2021-2024); in collaboration with Dr. Melissa McKinney (McGill University), Dr. Denis Roy (McGill University), and Haley Land-Miller (PhD candidate, McGill University). The goal of this project is to address gaps in knowledge in North…
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It’s with great joy and a bit of pride that we are introducing our new website – in three language versions totalling more than 100 pages! After 12 years, the former website has become an internet dinosaur, so time had come to create something new. One prominent feature of the new website is that you…
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Dear friends, I find it difficult to put this experience into words, but I think the pictures speak by themselves. Upon return from Antarctica, the coronavirus has caught us off guard, because Argentina has put the World Explorer under quarantine just before the last members of the expedition team could disembark. Together with seven other…
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We wish all our partners, former team members, volunteers, interns, sponsors and friends of Mériscope a very Happy New Year. We have put together a short review of those memorable moments that have made 2019 such a magnificent year.
Our Team spent a wonderful stay in Barcelona !In addition to interesting workshops and talks, we met some nice people and ate some delicious Spanish food.
We wish all our partners, former team members, volunteers, interns, sponsors and friends of Mériscope a very Happy New Year. We have put together a short review of those memorable moments that have made 2018 such a magnificent year.
One goal of MérisCool is to develop a school program – for the time being – for Canadian students of the secondary level: The idea is to offer courses of different duration (from ½ up to 4 days) based on different modules such as lectures on different topics, various group projects and of course boat…
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