Nigel Smith - Mines Light

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Executive Director & CEO of TRIUMF, Canada’s national particle accelerator centre. Previously dark matter & cosmic ray hunter, and underground lab builder. (he/him)

Stitched image of the Milky Way

View of Vancouver from Granville Island

A black and white image of Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge and the Fraser River, with Maple Ridge in the background. The image is taken from an aircraft en route between YVR and YOW

View of Nanaimo bay with the sun breaking through clouds

Panel of researchers at Canadian science policy conference

Image of a spiral galaxy, m81

Image of the Crab Nebula, the remnants of a supernova explosion in 1054

TRIUMF researcher lecturing to BC physics teachers on medical uses of nuclear physics

Maples turning red down a mall in Vancouver