Cutting-edge lab on remote B.C. island teasing out mysteries of ocean acidification with facility equipped with filters and UV light to kill germs and other impurities

Rochelle Baker on Canada’s National Observer reports whenever scientist Iria Giménez wants to contemplate her work, she settles on a wobbly driftwood bench perched on a mossy rock bluff and stares over the waters of Hyacinthe Bay on Quadra Island.But despite the remoteness of her thinking spot on the small ferry-dependent island, Giménez is just…