Congratulations to our COSEWIC_COSEPAC Marine Mammal SSC team member Marie Auger-Méthé for being inducted into the Royal Society of Canada. A great achievement and recognition!

.nature featured UBC Botany professor Dr. Patrick Keeling’s photo of a tiny polyp of brain coral as one of the best science images in August. nature.com/immersive/d415…

Congrats to #UBCOceans' Dr. Marie Auger-Methe and Dr. Andrea Reid

Are you an Early Career Researcher and have a cool idea for marine research? 🌊🔬 Do not miss this call! You can have the oportunity to lead your own project, in collaboration with other #ECR colleagues 🙌 Apply until the 7th of November, up to 2 projects will be funded! 🎉

PHD OPPORTUNITY: Global Change and Coral Reef Resilience (The Baum Lab) static1.squarespace.com/static/60d4f87… #coralreefs #phd #phdopportunity #careers #careerdevelopment #coral #coralreefresilience #climatechange #coralreefecology #marinebiology

Join our team! 📢We have a #VACANCY for a Science Professional Officer! 🌊You will play a critical role in shaping ICES science priorities, supporting management advice -working with every level of ICES community. 🙋‍♀️Interested? Apply by 29 September! ices.dk/about-ICES/Job…

Folks at UBC, join us on Sept 27 for the annual kickoff of the Climate Solutions Research Collective. It features some lightning talks about new research, a set of group brainstorming sessions, and a light lunch. More here: climatesolutions.ubc.ca/news-and-event…

Excitement is building for the 12th iteration of the Aquatic Virus Workshop to be held at the fantastic Oceanologic Observatory in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France during 5-9 May 2025. We have a great lineup of speakers, and a nascent website: avw12.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en

We are delighted to welcome Rabia Mushtaq to our team! As our new Communications Manager she brings 13+ years of experience in strategic communications & campaign leadership in wildlife conservation, public health, & gender rights. Learn more here buff.ly/4e9Fdna

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Research Aquarist - Coral Husbandry (Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies) tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMUCC_E… #coralreefs #jobs #jobopportunity #careers #careerdevelopment #coral #coralhusbandry #coralrestoration #coralreefecology #marinebiology

In partnership with Society of Canadian Aquatic Sciences, Canadian Science Publishing is excited to announce a new Early-Career Reviewer Program! Gain hands-on #PeerReview experience with Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Canadian Journal of Zoology FACETS Journal & Environmental Reviews. Learn more: ow.ly/iEYs50TgkYf 📸Photo credit: Kathryn Peiman

The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts & Musqueam present the 3rd annual Indigenous festival, Come Toward the Fire, on Sept 14. Festival admission is FREE for everyone. Get Tickets: cometowardthefire.com

The city of Linhares has legally recognized its waves as living beings, marking the first known time part of the ocean has been granted legal personhood. hakaimagazine.com/news/for-the-f… via Hakai Magazine

It's (almost) the weekend! Going #diving? If you see a #seahorse in the wild, please log it at iSeahorse.org Many thanks to every one who has submitted their observations - we now have more than 15000! Here is one of the latest - a gorgeous pygmy seahorse by xrufray

Welcome back, #UBCStudents! Whether you’re new or a returning student, make MOA a part of your student experience. UBC Students (and staff and faculty) receive free admission to the Museum all year round! Simply present your valid UBC ID card.⁣ 🪪 moa.ubc.ca ⁣

Video shows #jellyfish clones invading North American lakes in the thousands. "We know very little about how they affect ecosystems in Canada. The worry is that they harm indigenous species by outcompeting them" Florian Lüskow Florian Lüskow newsweek.com/video-jellyfis… via Newsweek

Warming climate likely increasing blooms of invasive peach blossom freshwater #jellyfish in B.C. The small jellyfish clones, about the size of a quarter, have been spotted in 34 places in B.C., and numbers expected to rise due to #climatechange msn.com/en-ca/news/can… Marine Zooplankton & Micronekton Lab

Join #WilliamCheung, Rashid Sumaila, Megan Bailey, Derek Armitage and more on September 18, 2024 @ 11 am PT for a webinar: Charting a sustainable future for oceans in Canada oceans.ubc.ca/seachange/

Join us next Friday, September 13, 2024 at 11 am PT, as Dr. William Cheung (Solving FCB, Changing Ocean Research Unit) discusses "Solving the sustainability challenges to achieve desirable ocean futures at the food-climate-biodiversity nexus". oceans.ubc.ca/news-and-event…

RESEARCH: Adaptation to climate change and limits in food production systems: Physics, the chemistry of biology, and human behavior. Co-authored by Oyinlola A. Muhammed, PhD and William Cheung (Solving FCB; Changing Ocean Research Unit). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… via Global Change Biology