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By Annika - Inaugural Cohort for Monoceros Youth Research Program March 2026 I first heard about Monoceros through a fish hatchery. My father met the founder, Alisa, at the fish hatchery where I had started volunteering. At the time I did not think much of this encounter, but when he told me about what she was working on, I got curious. A company using mushrooms to remediate contaminated soil? That isn’t something you hear about every day. For my Work Experience 12 class at

Hair Ice Mycelium❄️🍄 In late December 2025, while walking through our neighbourhood parks in the early morning (right at dawn), we stumbled across something I had never seen before, and it stopped me in my tracks. After weeks of storm activity, the forest floor was littered with fallen branches, especially cottonwood. But one branch looked… strange. It had split along the stem, and from inside it was “spewing” this white, silky material ; almost like someone had sprayed sil

Reflections On The Giant Mine and the Future of Remediation ~By Alisa, Monoceros Founder The glacier carved shoreline of Frame Lake in...

Why I Started Monoceros - And What the Name Means to Me In 2022, I made a decision that fundamentally shifted the direction of my career:...