More images of the zodiac and sampling operations onshore. @seos-uvic.bsky.social fieldwork takes place almost from pole to pole. Photos courtesy of @tiaanderlini.bsky.social and Sofie Ohrling

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Intense FOMO but very happy to see @tiaanderlini.bsky.social and Sofie Ohrling of @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social off to a great start on CCGS Amundsen in the Canadian 🇨🇦 Arctic Archipelago. First trace element samples collected for 2025 for us in the North

🌊 From @cproof-uvic.bsky.social @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social. Lower oxygen in bottom waters along the BC coast 🇨🇦

The levels of 137-Cs detected here is more than 130 times the level we detected in Pacific salmon in British Columbia following the Fukushima meltdowns in 2011 fukushimainform.ca/2017/12/18/o... 🌊

hanging out on the night shift of the PACSAFE 2025 OBS deployment/recovery cruise watching the sub-bottom profiler do its thing #Pacsafe2025 #ScienceAtSea #GeoscienceOnboard #MarineGeophysics #NRCanScience @dalhousie.bsky.social @nrcanada.bsky.social @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvic.ca

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🌊🧪 1/ Job Alert! Are you a world-leading researcher in climate change solutions? UVic’s Canada Excellence Research Chair offers 8 years of support for groundbreaking research. Join our interdisciplinary team @seos-uvic.bsky.social Learn more & apply by Aug 29: www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

🧵🌊 Tiny ocean fossils called foraminifera or "forams" hold a deep record of Earth's climate past. By studying these beautiful microfossils in ocean sediment cores scientists like our own @fraass.bsky.social reveal how life and climate have changed over millions of years wdcnews6.com/the-history-...

Tomorrow is a big day for us. Our undergraduate & graduate students will convocate to receive their degrees & our founding Director Dr. Chris Barnes will be recognized for his lasting contributions to both UVic & the broader scientific community @uvicscience.bsky.social www.uvic.ca/convocation/...

Faculty member @jaytcullen.bsky.social at the ArcticNet Annual Science Meeting trying to explain how geochemists use isotopes to learn about where lead (Pb) in the ocean comes from. Science communication using our experiences with virtual meetings to understand isotopes @uvicscience.bsky.social

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🧪 Listen to my colleague Dr. Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social talk about his recent work re: levels of graduate student funding in Canada 🇨🇦 compared to the US 🇺🇸 & UK 🇬🇧. He was on CBC Radio One On the Island yesterday morning www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social

The Washington Research Foundation is accepting applications for its postdoctoral program. Our @uwmlel.bsky.social drone program can host prospective postdocs with interests in marine spatial ecology. Contact me if interested. Program details below. www.wrfseattle.org/grants/wrf-p...

🌊🧪 Great write up of our involvement in the recent Canadian 🇨🇦 expedition to #Antarctica 🇦🇶 featuring newly graduated @tiaanderlini.bsky.social @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social . www.linkedin.com/pulse/dr-tia...

🌊🧪Job Alert!!! @oceannetworks.ca is looking for a Chief Executive Officer. Come join us at the University of Victoria 🇨🇦 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/ch...

⛏️🧪 #Geology friends. I took this picture in Archer Fiord on Ellesmere Island Nunavut. The dusting of snow some interesting lines on the cliff face. What exactly is going on here? Thanks

Another local earthquake, beneath the south end of the peninsula. Once again really nicely picked up by the @schoolshake.bsky.social @raspishake.bsky.social network operated by @seos-uvic.bsky.social, @hakai.org and the Geological Survey of Canada.

🌊🧪 It’s @tiaanderlini.bsky.social somewhere in the Labrador Sea sampling for trace elements and isotopes @geotraces.bsky.social Photo from Dr. Erin Bertrand (Dalhousie)

🌊 Great opportunity @uvicscience.bsky.social @oceannetworks.ca

Explore the work of 🌊🌎⛏️🧪 Dr. Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social who investigates how marine plankton respond to environmental changes using the fossil record, focusing on their role in carbon cycling and oceanic CO₂ buffering. More information on his research group's work here fraass.github.io

Cool science coming out of the RBCM and UVic SEOS @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Welcome to Antarctica! PhD student Tia Anderlini (@tiaanderlini.bsky.social) is currently in Antarctica as a research scientist on board the HMCS Margaret Brooke. This trip marks the first circumnavigation of South America and visit to Antarctica by a Royal Canadian Navy vessel. #WorldWaterDay

The Geological Survey of Canada (Pacific Geoscience Centre near Victoria, BC and Vancouver, BC) has an opening for a research scientist in Earthquake Seismology. Join a great, diverse team doing cutting edge science. ⚒️🧪 Details: emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap... Apply by 25 April, 2025

Have you ever wondered about the risk to local infrastructure in the event of a large earthquake? Dr. Ed Nissen (@faultydata.bsky.social) shared his insight on the topic with Victoria News last month. www.vicnews.com/local-news/o...

Clearly not business as usual in the #Arctic

This #WorldWaterDay, the United Nations is focused on glacier preservation. UVic professor Jay Cullen (@jaytcullen.bsky.social) is focused on glaciers (and sea-ice, and permafrost) every day. Learn more about Dr. Cullen's research analyzing trace elements in the Arctic. www.uvic.ca/science/home...

🌊🧪 @apnews.com reporting on the state of marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) initiatives with input from @seos-uvic.bsky.social alum Will Burt & @davidho.bsky.social @cworthy.bsky.social @cafethorium.bsky.social @exois-oceaniron.bsky.social @co2ley.bsky.social & others apnews.com/article/clim...

🚨Dive Alert🚨ONC and Canpac are diving at the Strait of Georgia to recover and deploy scientific instruments. Watch the #ONCabyss dives live 🌊 bit.ly/4icQllI #KnowTheOcean #SalishSea

🌊🧪A well deserved recognition for Moronke's work! Congratulations on the King Charles III Coronation Medal @moronkeharris.bsky.social who is here on @bsky.app. Learn about her work and research here www.moronkeharris.com/current-rese...

🌊🧪 Congratulations to graduate student Moronke Harris who has been awarded a King Charles III Coronation Medal for her work in the area of Nature and Environment for research in marine conservation and ecology! www.moronkeharris.com www.gg.ca/en/lister%C3...

Hot off the press! New paper by Racquelle Mangahas, Allan Bertram, Dominique Weis @geochem-dweis.bsky.social, Jay Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social and Maria Maldonado. Read the paper here! (open access) doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

🌊🧪 Sometimes when you are working from small boats in #Antarctica 🇦🇶 you get visitors. @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social member Tia Anderlini sent this showing her trace metal sampling interrupted by a raft of curious penguins 🐧 @geotraces.bsky.social

🧵🌊🧪 ☢️ 14 years have passed since the triple disaster of the great Tohoku Earthquake, tsunami and meltdowns at the #Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Many people lost their lives in the tsunami and many more were displaced by subsequent radioactive contamination. fukushimainform.ca

🧵🌊🧪 As demand for battery metals rises, deep-sea mining is proposed as an alternative to land mining. But is it a better option? A new paper by emeritus faculty Tunnicliffe et al. warns that it could add to biodiversity loss without solving terrestrial mining issues. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Get to know 🌊🌎🧪 Dr. Casey Brant, Associate Teaching Professor @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social and also Captain of the research vessel RV Strickland https://www.uvic.ca/science/research/vessel/index.php She is an Indigenous scholar with expertise in geochemistry,

Get to know 🌊🌎🧪 Dr. Diana Varela who explores how phytoplankton, microscopic algae, drive marine productivity and cycle key nutrients like silicon, nitrogen, and carbon. https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/varelalab/ @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social

Meet 🌊🌎🧪 Dr. Casey Brant, Associate Teaching Professor @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social and also Captain of the research vessel RV Strickland https://www.uvic.ca/science/research/vessel/index.php She is an Indigenous scholar with expertise in geochemistry, oceanography,

🌊🧪🇨🇦 Working from small boats in #Antarctica 🇦🇶 to collect surface water samples for trace element analysis. Tia Anderlini on CBC's The National working in Admiralty Bay, South Shetland Islands. @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social youtu.be/XNyi9C2n1Hg?...

With all of these recent felt #earthquakes, many people are asking "does this mean the big one is coming?". These earthquakes are not connected - some are shallow, some deep, all are on different faults and even different tectonic plates. They are far from the locked subduction fault. So no... ⚒️🧪

Meet 🌎⛏️🧪 Dr. Dante Canil who runs a research group focussed on experimental and igneous petrology, mantle evolution, and geochemical cycles @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social. Link to his website here https://web.uvic.ca/~dcanil/Dante_Canil.html

⛏️ 🧪 If you want know what is going on with all things #earthquake related in British Columbia be sure to follow Drs. Ed Nissen @faultydata.bsky.social & John Cassidy @earthquakeguy.bsky.social both affiliated with @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social. Great contacts for media

Very proud of @seos-uvic.bsky.social graduate Israporn (Grace) Sethanant’s latest paper on active tectonics and earthquake hazards in her native Thailand, plus neighbouring Laos and Myanmar (the “Golden Triangle”). academic.oup.com/gji/article/...

Meet 🌊🌎🧪 Dr. Casey Brant, Associate Teaching Professor @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social and also Captain of the research vessel RV Strickland https://www.uvic.ca/science/research/vessel/index.php She is an Indigenous scholar with expertise in geochemistry, oceanography,

🌊🧪🇨🇦 Great to see MEOPAR represented in this photo. Drs. Brent Else, Doug Wallace and Jonathan Kellogg worked hard to organize the academic scientific crew on the HMCS Margaret Brooke for this historic Canadian #Antarctic 🇦🇶 mission. @argocanada.bsky.social now has floats in the Southern Ocean!!!

🌊🧪🇨🇦 More on the HMCS Margaret Brooke and this Canadian scientific mission to #Antarctica 🇦🇶. We have @seos-uvic.bsky.social representation onboard youtube.com/shorts/4Pk-A... @uvicscience.bsky.social

Worried that the recent earthquakes in Victoria are a sign that the "Big One" is coming? It's unlikely, according to @seos-uvic.bsky.social professor Lucinda Leonard. "There's no reason to think that changes in these stresses will trigger the next 'Big One'." vancouversun.com/news/bc-eart...

Get to know 🌊🌎🧪 Dr. Jody Klymak who collects seagoing data & applies numerical models to understand small-scale ocean flows like waves, turbulence, fronts, & eddies & their impact on large-scale circulation, energy dissipation, & mixing of momentum, heat, salt, and tracers. His website is

🌊🧪🇨🇦 Update on HMCS Margaret Brooke's #Antarctic research expedition with SEOS member Tia Anderlini onboard youtu.be/AJyJoDjApPg?...

Get to know 🌊🌎🧪 Dr. Diana Varela who explores how phytoplankton, microscopic algae, drive marine productivity and cycle key nutrients like silicon, nitrogen, and carbon. https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/varelalab/ @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social