CBGCollections

To qualify: https://www.uoguelph.ca/registrar/finances-fees/work-study/

To apply: https://experienceguelph.ca/home.htm

BugQuest is launching in Spring 2026.🌱🐝

Schools, communities, and organizations across Canada will soon have the opportunity to take part in a national effort to discover the insects living around us. Using DNA barcoding, participants will contribute to real scientific research while helping build a clearer picture of Canada’s biodiversity.

Follow our page to stay updated — and be ready to join the quest 🔍

Learn more: https://bioscan.life/bugquest/

As the year comes to a close, we're excited to spotlight an upcoming initiative available to participants in Canada: BugQuest!

BugQuest is a national citizen science project that invites schools and community groups across Canada to explore the incredible diversity of insects in their own local landscapes.

Citizen science often begins with a conversation, so as you gather with family and friends over the holidays, keep BugQuest in mind and share this opportunity to discover biodiversity in the coming year. 🐞

🔗Learn more about BugQuest: https://bioscan.life/bugquest/

📣 Discover BOLDistilled!

The BOLDistilled reference library, produced using a new algorithm, is comprehensive yet compact. It slashes analysis time by over 98% without compromising taxonomic accuracy.

Most importantly, because each library is archived, it is possible to validate the conclusions reached by any study which employed a particular library to assign identifications to sequences recovered from eDNA or by metabarcoding.

Access the publication 🔗
https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.70043

Find out more and download BOLDistilled on our website 🔗
https://boldsystems.org/data/boldistilled

🍁 What’s more Canadian than hockey and maple syrup? Helping to digitize maple specimens, of course!

Join our new Notes from Nature project and explore hundreds of specimens, some over 100 years old. From your couch to our collections!

👉 Join us on Zooniverse today 🔗 https://nature.ca/en/learn-explore/activities/capture-collections/