August 2025

LNG shipping began last month in Gitga'at First Nation waters. Research supported by the SOL and its collaborators are featured in Canada's National Observer.

June 2025

SOL lab members embark for summer internships! Mary Margaret Lemburg is off to Orcalab while Hannah Barrow ventures to Fin Island Research Station (BC Whales).

May 2025

The 39th year of Sewanee's Island Ecology Program begins! Ten students living and working together for more than a month on a protected Georgia barrier island with a lineup of 6 Sewanee faculty!

May 2025

SOL lab members Cecilia Blackledge & Kabir Menon graduate. Congratulations!

April 2025

The 2025 edition of "Scholarship Sewanee" was a busy day for the SOL! We had a poster presentation, "Fin whale photo-identification & site fidelity in Gitga'at First Nation waters (BC, Canada)" by Chloe Sims, Hannah Barrow, Cecilia Blackledge & Mary Margaret Lemburg, as well as an oral presentation by Kabir Menon entitled, "Density Surface Models of Marbled Murrelets Reveal Hotspots Overlap with LNG Shipping Routes". 

Spring 2025

SOL website launched!