Royal British Columbia Museum

So it's worth just kind of walking through.

But we've got the Royal BC Museum, which is just right next to the Parliament Building.

They did a renovation on this a couple years ago, and it's really, really well done.

It's super interactive.

All the people at this harbor, all these really experienced whalers did not know what this was.

So they're like, let's take this to the Royal BC Museum.

They take it to the BC Museum.

And the expert there said that it was a baleen whale fetus.

The fossil is big, weighing more than a kilogram.

Storey sent photos to the Royal BC Museum, and they say it's just the third set ever found in the province, and possibly dates back more than 100,000 years.

Storey says it puts things in perspective

You can't help but wonder when you're holding it in your hand, I think, how old is it? Was it a male or a female? How did it die? You know, all of these questions pop into your head, and, uh, it's just, uh, kinda makes you think more about life

And I remember just being in my first invertebrate biology class and someone had put like an urchin down in front of me and I couldn't really even like say what the urchin was like I could recognize it but I couldn't even say what it was and by you know the end of that semester I knew its scientific name I knew all the parts of its body I had dissected one I you know all that stuff and I just I fell in love and it was great and then I went and did my master's at the University of Victoria as well And I worked at my main part of my career before this job.

I was actually working at the Royal BC Museum as an invertebrate collection manager in the museum.

And that's the weird job because you're basically a librarian of dead animals in jars.

Being a

It's too bad that they don't work on radio.

Have you ever done here in Victoria the BC Museum when they do the various photo contests in the different years? I have not.

They do

photo

Richard is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Victoria and an expert in botany and paleontology.

He's also a curator of botany and earth history at the Royal BC Museum.

Richard has published research for decades on many topics, but what's worth noting here is that a good deal of his research is focused on the impacts of climate change on natural and human influenced ecosystems.

So here's my interview with Richard Hebda, and then I'll talk to you all briefly at the end.

Practitioners should review whether existing site models account for these changing subsurface conditions in permafrost zones.

The Royal BC Museum exhibit documents observed shifts in British Columbia ecosystems due to climate trends.

Consultants preparing adaptation sections for environmental impact statements can reference the documented changes for baseline condition updates.

The display draws on long-term monitoring records from multiple regions across the province.

wait what on their own yeah exactly i thought you'd dig out the old hydrazilla suit but uh apparently not that's long gone it's in the royal ontario museum probably

Yeah, it's not in the Royal BC Museum.

I don't think they have any exhibits anymore.

No, no, no, they don't.

I don't

know.

So much for our Royal BC Museum sponsorship.

We'll just put them down as a no in this sponsorship column.

Literally last night, I was at an event with the leadership of the military from around the Pacific Rim, including the United States.

In that room, the leaders, the generals and the admirals that were at the Royal BC Museum, to a person, They talked about cooperation, about how important it was in unstable times to work together.

And I think about how the current administration in the US has used their military A war that was supposed to be over in a few days that has increased the price of gas and diesel for people around the world that has put entire economies in jeopardy because they can't access oil and gas.

And the total failure of the military to achieve what were demonstrably unachievable aims of the Donald Trump administration that they sent them out to do.