Scientists are still assessing the impact of post-tropical storm Fiona on fossils and other cultural artifacts buried in the Island’s shoreline.
The massive storm in September 2022 washed away a record amount of shoreline, according to researchers at UPEI’s School of Climate Change and Adaptation. In some places it was as much as a metre and a half to seven metres, compared to the usual annual average of 30 centimetres a year.
“From a fossil standpoint, Fiona had quite an impact. It giveth and it taketh,” said John Calder, a paleontologist who works for the provincial government as a consultant.
One casualty was a
