Job Title: Ecological Monitoring and Data Analysis Intern Application Deadline: Nov 22nd Description/Opportunity Transition Salt Spring Society’s Climate Adaptation Research Lab (C.A.R.L.) is a long-term experimental watershed restoration program based in the Maxwell Creek watershed on Salt Spring Island, B.C. We are currently looking to add a new team member in the Winter 2025/26 season…

🌿A heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who joined us in the field for our spring and fall planting days this year – and to all who donated plants, offered support, or helped behind the scenes. Together, we planted over 2,000 native plants! Your efforts are helping to restore ecosystem functioning (erosion control), reduce wildfire risk,…

We’re proud to share that Dr. Ruth Waldick, Lead Scientist with Transition Salt Spring and head of the Climate Adaptation Research Lab (CARL), is featured in a new University of Victoria podcast exploring how our communities can better respond to extreme heat and wildfire risk. Ruth appears in Episode 3: “Ruth” of A Hot Topic:…

We are hosting a community restoration planting on October 17 & 18, and we’re looking for donations of native plants to help restore and strengthen our local ecosystems. Here’s our target plant list: Ocean Spray (Holodiscus discolor) Red Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa) Pacific Willow (Salix lucida) Baldhip Rose (Rosa gymnocarpa) Red Alder (Alnus rubra) Blackcap Raspberry…

The Climate Adaptation Research Lab is calling on your green thumbs and gardening expertise once again! This past spring, thanks to the incredible efforts of our volunteers, we successfully planted hundreds of native species in the Maxwell Watershed. Your contributions made a real difference – and now we’re building on that success with another round…

Wildhaven and Transition Salt Spring have partnered to create an early eco-literacy nature immersion program on Salt Spring Island. This video shares from the first 6 months of our pilot project, which is a weekly hands-on immersion experience. We are focused on forest restoration and experimental regenerative methods on Hwmet’etsum and other ecological opportunities around…

On June 14th, 2023, a group of students from the homeschool group Wild Haven spent the day in the field with our lead scientist Ruth Waldick, restoration ecologist Grace Fields, and botanist/restoration ecologist Angeline Emmott. The students learned how to spot a healthy forest and how those characteristics can act as natural firebreaks. Toward the…

During the May Victoria Day long weekend, Transition Salt Spring’s Climate Adaptation Research Lab (CARL), together with restoration ecology students from UVIC, UBC, and the Gulf Islands Secondary School (GISS), worked on restoring the forest understory to create a fire-resistant environment and reduce wildfire risks on the island. The high school students were excited to…

Salt Spring is home to a wide variety of ecosystems and habitats that are intricately interconnected. Nutrients from the Salish Sea — carried inland by birds of prey, otters, and other predators — feed the forests, which in turn help regulate the freshwater systems that sustain life across the island. From the multi-layered canopies of…

Rethinking Fire in Our Watersheds In the first webinar of the Fire Files series, “When Fire Meets Water: Healthy Watersheds as a Solution for the 21st Century,” experts explored how wildfires, water, and watershed health are deeply interconnected. Moderated by Dr. Ruth Waldick, lead scientist at our Climate Adaptation Research Lab (CARL), the panel brought…