Explorer

Getting to know the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) - in a healthy ecosystem they are curious and acrobatic, often breaching and smacking the surface with their flippers and flukes (tails).

This month, the Ingenium Channel is highlighting a series of talented, Canadian women who are participating in the Dr. Roberta Bondar Career Development Program.

Today marks 136 years since this photograph — a panorama on the banks of the Thames River at Cliveden, west of London — was taken on August 31, 1883. The 43 men in this group portrait constitute a “who’s-who” of international fisheries in the late nineteenth century. All were in London attending the Great International Fisheries Exhibition, which had opened in the spring of that year. That August day they enjoyed a river excursion, breaking away from London and the exhibition.