While it’s been a year full of challenges & loss, a real bright spot was recently diving on some #greengravel Giant Kelp I grew that’s survived to adulthood! This one off the Deer Group islands here in tradtl Huu-ay-aht territory was 7 meters tall in Aug & growing strong 🥲 #kelp

BREAKING: “It was a mistake to open the Greenbelt,” Premier Doug Ford said, adding that the land opened to development would be returned to the protected area — which he says he will never touch again. #onpoli via Emma McIntosh (same handle on the other app) Fatima Syed / @fatimabsyed.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/ford-reverses-…

TWN in the News! Tsleil-Waututh Nation's urgent work saving tens of thousands of pink salmon in xʔəl̓ilwətaʔɬ, the Indian River, last weekend is featured in the Narwhal. Read the story to learn more: thenarwhal.ca/tsleil-waututh…

A few months in the making... & now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400+ open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! anticolonialresearchlibrary.org

…lpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ac… New major paper on mountain caribou and heli skiing 👇 “We found that home-range size was on average 80–120% larger during the anthropause (when heli skiing was inactive) than in years of normal heli-ski operations”

We are delighted to announce the launch of eDNA Explorer, a platform for exploring, analyzing and sharing eDNA data. We’ve developed this site to help practitioners, researchers, land managers, and policy makers. ednaexplorer.org

Kelps on Demand! New open-access methods paper by Varoon P Supratya on cultivating #Nereocystis in the lab. We hope this paper will help ongoing #kelp research & #restoration efforts. Please RT! Phyc. Soc. America Journal of Phycology @KaptnKelp UBC Oceans (also found at ubcoceans.bsky.social) UBC Botany Bamfield MSC onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jp…

JOIN US: On Friday, Jan. 12 at 11 am PT - live or online - for Dr. Anna K McLaskey presentation: Tracing prey sources from the base of the #foodweb to understand drivers of #pelagic nutrition. Info and to RSVP: oceans.ubc.ca/news-and-event… Pelagic Ecosystems Lab

New research led by Anna K McLaskey resolves distinct size structured zooplankton trophic ecologies and prominent role of microbial food web in temperate coastal ocean UBC Oceans (also found at ubcoceans.bsky.social) DFO Pacific UBC Science Zooplankton Symposium PICES - North Pacific Marine Science Organization doi.org/10.1007/s00442…

Learn more about the xʔəl̓ílwətaʔł Indian River Watershed from səlilwətaɬ. Hear insights on the deep connections we maintain to the xʔəl̓ílwətaʔł. Watch this film led by TLR staff about Tsleil-Waututh Nation, featuring Nation members: youtu.be/URD-yMrWJw0

Grace Melchers talks about what it's like to be a woman in science: oceans.ubc.ca/2024/02/12/feb… #WomenAndGirlsInScienceDay #WomenAndGirlsInScience Photo by Kiara Kattler

February is #BlackHistoryMonth ! We sat down with Ayodele Oloko (Ayodele Oloko) to talk about her research and the advice she wants to give Black women scientists and people alike. Oloko is a PhD student in the Fisheries Economics Research Unit (FERU) Research Unit. oceans.ubc.ca/2024/02/15/feb…

Fish and invertebrate species trophic positions and pelagic food web structure in British Columbia coastal waters and links to local ocean properties ⁦UBC Oceans (also found at ubcoceans.bsky.social)⁩ ⁦UBC Science⁩ ⁦UBC EOAS | eoas.ubc.ca on Bluesky⁩ ⁦Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences⁩ ⁦PICES - North Pacific Marine Science Organization⁩ doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-…

How effective are #MPAs for conserving #kelp #forests? Our perspective shows they can help with some drivers of loss like grazing, but often fail to protect against ocean warming and coastal darkening - 2 main reasons we are losing kelp forests globally! doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13…

Snapshots from day 1 of the UBC encampment. This is a space of refusal, where we resoundingly reject the university’s investment in genocide. It is a space of imagination, where we work with one another to build emancipatory futures. From @peoplesuniversityubc on Instagram.

Orcas were spotted in səlilwət (Burrard Inlet) last week! Take a look at this video that was captured. It is so heartwarming to see these beautiful whales so close to the community. 🐳 youtu.be/Er50WCAWNzE

When an Indigenous food system meets agrarian food system. Our Garry Oak hedgerow Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm is looking glorious! Lots of happy pollinators! #nativesinstem #ecology #agroecology

The bad news is out: Hakai Magazine is shutting down at the end of 2024. We’re incredibly sad, but our team is proud of the great work we’ve done these past 10 years. We have 5 more months of beautiful and unique coastal stories to come. More info here: mailchi.mp/hakaimagazine/…

“When you have an extended summer period, then you would have more productive (jellyfish bloom) conditions later into the year,” says Dr. Brian Hunt of UBC Oceans (also found at ubcoceans.bsky.social). səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) Jessica Schaub Via Canadian Geographic canadiangeographic.ca/articles/bloom…

So pleased to share that CBC News has shared our pre-contact səlilwətaɬ diets research! Research under the leadership of Tsleil-Waututh Nation in partnership with UBC Oceans (also found at ubcoceans.bsky.social) and UBC Anthropology. cbc.ca/news/canada/br…