🌿 Science, Stewardship & Students: A Powerful Partnership on Salt Spring
This spring, the TSS Climate Adaptation Research Lab (CARL) team continued a growing partnership with the Gulf Islands Secondary School, working closely with visionary science teacher Sara Peerless to bring environmental science out of the classroom and into the Mount Maxwell watershed.
Under Sara’s leadership and with guidance from CARL, Grade 9 students are:
🧪 Testing soil and water to monitor ecosystem health
🌱 Propagating native plants for restoration
🐝 Surveying birds, insects, and pollinators
📚 Studying climate impacts through fieldwork and hands-on experiments
💧 Exploring real ways to improve our island’s water resilience
These students are not just learning about climate change—they’re actively doing the work to understand and protect our local ecosystems.
This collaboration is a powerful example of how local action, mentorship, and science education can help build resilience—one student, one project, one watershed at a time.
👉 Read the full story and see how Sara Peerless and our CARL team are helping Salt Spring’s youth lead the way: