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Ava Keerak 🐻🪶🐇☕🏔️
@avakeerak.bsky.social
Geophysics undergraduate student at UCalgary and waterSHED lab member
(she/her)
While my 20 year-old digital camera can't handle low light very well, these blurry pika pictures are too cute not to share
August 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Mississippian Period marine fossils from the Mount Head Formation in Kananskis!

(don't worry, I also took photos with objects for scale)
June 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
There's a family of mountain cottontails in my neighbourhood, and one of the kits ran off and fell into our window well during the major storm last night. Luckily it's safe and back with its family now!

Our window wells seem to trap all sorts of small animals so we're building ramps for them.
June 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
There's an adorable family of Canada geese with five little goslings that often wanders around campus, and seeing the parents teach the goslings how to do goose things always makes my day.
May 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
For #WorldGlacierDay, here's a photo of my favourite glacier, the Illecillecwaet Glacier in Glacier National Park, Canada. Its name comes from the Sinixt word meaning "big water", as it feeds the Illecillecwaet River, a major river that flows into the Columbia River.
March 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I had a wonderful weekend at the Métis Nation of B.C.'s Ministry of Environment Protection, Climate Change and Food Security Conference and Citizen Workshop! It was so amazing to connect with other Métis citizens and elders from across B.C. working to help protect the environment and each other.
March 10, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Today I celebrated International Women's Day by going for supper with my mom and a lifelong mentor of mine. These two women have helped shape me into the person I am today, and I love them so so much.

Happy International Women's Day everyone!
March 9, 2025 at 6:16 AM
An unedited photo from my walk along the river today! The weather has been nice lately, so I thought I'd get out and play around with a camera I recently added to my collection.
March 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I handmade some Pacific tree frog and salmon stickers 😊. I have a small Cricut machine and a photo printer, so I can turn my doodles into waterproof stickers at home!
February 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I too have been added to the fried rice 🤦‍♀️
January 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I saw a shikâk (Michif for skunk) for the first time ever today! I watched it adorably skip along from a safe distance.
December 22, 2024 at 4:33 PM
For #FieldworkFriday, here's a curious cow that kept following @parkefont.bsky.social and I while we were conducting field work in the Okanagan, BC, on the traditional territories of the Syilx people. It was kind of cute but also unnerving, and there ended up being multiple cows.
December 20, 2024 at 10:57 PM
It's International Day of Persons with Disabilities!

A success story:
Thanks to @watershedlab.bsky.social, @parkefont.bsky.social, and Mike Thiel, I was able to get out and have a wonderful field experience in August, even with my physical disability. Hiking poles make great mobility aids! #IDPwD
December 3, 2024 at 1:40 PM
the view of the sky from my backyard this evening
December 2, 2024 at 11:50 PM
I have an instagram account that posts low quality photos of rabbits spotted on campus and it's pretty dumb but I love it. Here's two rabbits from the other day that I originally thought were chunks of snow.
December 1, 2024 at 4:23 AM