Congratulations to Dilan Sunthareswaran, who successfully defended his #MSc thesis, "From poop to marine soup: deconstructing the diet and health of mussels in a high rainfall coastal region" @ubcpelagic.bsky.social

RESEARCH: Summer Diet of Humpback Whales in the Northern Strait of Georgia, British Columbia (Canada), Revealed by Stable Isotope Analysis. By Joan Moreaux, Brian Hunt and Villy Christensen. @ubcpelagic.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

RESEARCH: Basin-scale zooplankton composition in the Eastern Subarctic Pacific in the winter-spring. First author: Joanne Breckenridge, with Evgeny Pakhomov and Brian Hunt @UBCzoops @ubcpelagic.bsky.social @eoas.ubc.ca www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... via Progress in Oceanography

Wave after wave of plankton form base of marine food webs. As seasons shift "life may slow down but doesn't stop," says #UBCOceans Dr. Anna McLaskey @ubcpelagic.bsky.social @eoas.ubc.ca @science.ubc.ca #OceanIdioms oceans.ubc.ca/ocean-idioms/

"As #wildfire frequency and intensity continue to rise in B.C., we need to better understand the cascading effects of fire across systems, and to integrate this knowledge into land, water and #climate resilience planning," said Brian Hunt @ubcpelagic.bsky.social oceans.ubc.ca/2025/06/17/w...

Smoke on the water". This #oceanidiom warns: trouble is brewing. As climate change alters #wildfire regimes, that warning is extended to #aquatic #ecosystems. @ubcpelagic.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @eoas.ubc.ca oceans.ubc.ca/ocean-idioms/

Doing research on coastal development impacts on marine ecosystems in the North Pacific region? Why not consider joining our session at the PICES symposium in Yokohama this November @picesmarinesci.bsky.social

Wildfires pollute waterways and could affect their ability to store carbon, say @ubcoceans.bsky.social researchers. Fire severity and frequency is increasing in B.C., which could lead to worsening water quality for the whole ecosystem. science.ubc.ca/news/2025-06...

#WildSalmonDay June 1, 2025! #UBCOceans research: Populations of wild #salmon face many threats — including Thiamine Deficiency Complex, which researchers #AnnaMcLaskey & #JacobLerner are investigating in BC Chinook salmon oceans.ubc.ca/2024/08/21/u... @ubcpelagic.bsky.social

RESEARCH: Assessing Winter #Phytoplankton Community Composition Dynamics and Their Response to Environmental Drivers in the Subarctic Northeast #Pacific. Co-authored by Dr. Brian Hunt @ubcpelagic.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... via @jgroceans.bsky.social

Researchers collected environmental DNA (#eDNA) during the C3 expedition, allowing them to overcome typical biases associated with sampling biodiversity at an interoceanic scale. oceans.ubc.ca/2025/01/06/u... @ubcpelagic.bsky.social

RESEARCH: DNA metabarcoding captures temporal and vertical dynamics of mesozooplankton communities. Co-authored by #AndreasNovotny @loicjacquemot.bsky.social #BrianHunt @ubcpelagic.bsky.social academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

Using #eDNA has help detect rapid & ongoing ecosystem changes across the coasts, like the species of Pacific #salmon now being found in #Arctic waters. oceans.ubc.ca/2025/01/06/u... @ubcpelagic.bsky.social

Explore the eDNA distribution of your species of interest across Canada's three oceans with our Canada C3 Shiny app: fjedna.shinyapps.io/CanadaC3_shi... More infos in the full publication: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

RESEARCH: The Hunger Games: Stable Isotopes Indicate Winter Inter-Guild Competition for Resources by Marine Meso-Predators in the Sub-Arctic North Pacific. @ubcpelagic.bsky.social #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...