Fiona Beaty: the Howe Sound Atl'ka7tsem Marine Reference Guide.

In May, Fiona was awarded a National Geographic Early Career grant to support her latest project, the Howe Sound Atl'ka7tsem Marine Reference Guide.

Of the interactive map — with more than 140 layers of data — Beaty says, "Our goal is to create a database that does reflect scientific knowledge but also local ecological knowledge, traditional ecological knowledge and cultural information so that we can create a resource that's sort of a one-stop shop, where you can go and visualize all of these different data layers and see how they overlap."
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