Slowly trying to reintegrate into the real world after 2 months at sea! This year's trace metal sampling campaign aboard the CCGS Amundsen contributed to the CASCADES and QEI/MAZE projects. @seos-uvic.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social
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SEOS has pioneered, in Canada, the establishment of a research focus in Earth System Science. Our core disciplines are geology, geochemistry, geophysics, oceanography & atmospheric science https://www.uvic.ca/science/seos
🌊 Intrepid zodiac crew getting ready to depart the icebreaker CCGS Amundsen 🚢 to sample surface waters for chemical properties. Good Friday Bay Canadian 🇨🇦 Arctic Archipelago. Sofie Ohrling @seos-uvic.bsky.social with Reese from Tortell group UBC and Bronson from Wang group UManitoba
🌊 Amazing video of 6 Orca near the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada 🇨🇦 Patricia Bay as @oceannetworks.ca demobilizes from #ONCAbyss on Sunday. Video with permission of colleague Forrest Trenaman
C-PROOF floats and gliders were featured in a Nature of Things episode about how the weather is getting weirder. Around 18:30 where the ocean’s role in regulating the climate is discussed by Brad de Young, and C-PROOF and DFO are seen deploying floats and gliders. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN3a...
The weather is getting weirder
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These changes also mean that @katemoran.bsky.social is now a professor in @seos-uvic.bsky.social. We're happy to have you, Kate!
UVic Science@uvicscience.bsky.social · 2mo agoRecent changes at Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) have resulted in exciting news for the Faculty of Science! Kate Moran's term as President and CEO of ONC concluded on June 30, and former SEOS Director Jay T. Cullen has been named the Interim President and CEO! 🔗Details: https://ow.ly/YfFU50Zup1J
UVic hosts international ocean history conference June 15-19 UVic Law building For more information please visit: events.uvic.ca/event/106189... sway.cloud.microsoft/KADEy01cx1zB... oceanspast.org/about/ @uvic.ca @uvicscholcom.bsky.social @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social
Oceans Past Conference
The Oceans Past Initiative connects scholars andpractitioners interested in documenting and understandingchanges in marine systems and human-ocean ...
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1/2 🌊 This year Ocean Hack Week is going to be held @bamfieldmsc.bsky.social on the beautiful west coast of Vancouver Island. Applications are due by June 5. Develop or apply your coding and data analysis skills to problems in ocean science oceanhackweek.org/ohw26/index....
OceanHackWeek 2026 (OHW26)
OceanHackWeek 2026 (OHW26) will be held on August 24-28, 2026 at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre on the West Coast of beautiful Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The OceanHackWeek pro...
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🌊 Job Posting: With colleague Dr. Raoul Couture at Université Laval looking for a postdoctoral researcher to investigate trace metals and metalloids in the the Arctic. Applications to be sent by email to raoul.couture@chm.ulaval.ca @seos-uvic.bsky.social www.geotraces.org/postdoctoral...
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Arctic Trace Metal Biogeochemistry, Université Laval, University of Victoria, Canada – GEOTRACES
An International Study of the Marine Biogeochemical Cycles of Trace Elements and Isotopes - Trace Element data available including an on-line Atlas eGEOTRACES
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Great work from @theronfinley.bsky.social @earthquakeguy.bsky.social @faultydata.bsky.social and Dr. Lucinda Leonard of @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social
John Cassidy@earthquakeguy.bsky.social · 6mo agoOld faults… new tricks. Dr. Theron Finley used a variety of new datasets to study an old #Fault in the southern Canadian Cordillera Congratulations @theronfinley.bsky.social on your outstanding PhD research that has improved seismic hazard estimates agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... ⚒️🧪
🧪Colleagues @seos-uvic.bsky.social @fraass.bsky.social & Colin Goldblatt receiving funding from the British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund for work on paleo- and current climate change research @uvic.ca @uvicscience.bsky.social cheknews.ca/uvic-gets-1-...
UVic gets $1.9M boost from province for 10 research projects
The B.C. government is providing the University of Victoria with a $1.9 million boost to help fund 10 research projects.
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We @seos-uvic.bsky.social are particularly proud of our students in the BSc in Climate Science
UVic Science@uvicscience.bsky.social · 10mo ago🌥️ 2025 in review: We graduated our first climate science students. Just two years after launching our climate science program, we celebrated our first three graduates this year—two in June, one in Nov. 🔗 Climate science: https://ow.ly/UeKO50XMZRc 🔗 Year-in-review: https://ow.ly/8f4450XMZQS
@uwsafs.bsky.social & Friday Harbor Labs are now advertising for an assistant professor position with a specialty in marine invertebrate organismal biology. @csucoast.bsky.social @uscwrigley.usc.edu @scrippsocean.bsky.social @mbarinews.bsky.social @woods.stanford.edu @ucdmarinescience.bsky.social
UW College of the Environment@uwenvironment.bsky.social · 10mo agoCome join us at #UWEnvironment! @uwsafs.bsky.social and UW Friday Harbor Labs are hiring an assistant professor who specializes in marine invertebrate organismal biology. About the job and how to apply: https://bit.ly/44sItYr
🌊 Call for abstracts now open for Goldschmidt 2026 to be held in Montréal PQ 🇨🇦. Deadline is Feb. 26, 2026 conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/...
Goldschmidt 2026 Conference
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My take on why the proposed northern pipeline is incredibly risky without 1st doing some basic geological due diligence. BC’s N Coast & interior are criss-crossed with faults but seismic & geodetic monitoring is rudimentary and we simply don’t know what’s active. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
‘There’s no monitoring of earthquakes’: new British Columbia pipeline could spell catastrophe, experts warn
Project on ‘very poorly understood’ terrain and likely to pass through Rocky Mountain trench, which researchers say poses immense geological hazard
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1/4 Excited to share a new paper led by my student Connor S. van Wieren in Earth and Planetary Science Letters: "Correlative isotope excursions driven by transport, not global environmental change." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We're used to seeing waves in the ocean...but waves in the clouds? A rare cloud formation called Kevin-Helholtz clouds was visible over Victoria's Inner Harbour yesterday, and @seos-uvic.bsky.social professor Adam Monahan has the scientific explanation: www.vancouverisawesome.com/bc-news/rare...
Rare cloud makes waves above Victoria's Inner Harbour
Rachelle Purych was looking out the window when she noticed a peculiar wave-shaped cloud formation outside.
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Look it's @fraass.bsky.social from @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social ! 🔬
University of Victoria@uvic.ca · last yr.🚨 Big news! UVic researchers receive $1.13M from CFI-JELF to advance their work in climate and health innovation. These locally grounded projects are creating global impact, from BC’s alpine ecosystems to coastal communities and beyond. 🌍 ow.ly/sXrw50X9T4t
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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Jay T. Cullen@jaytcullen.bsky.social · last yr.As a supervisor nothing makes me happier than seeing my lab members doing what they love. Here are @tiaanderlini.bsky.social and Sofie Ohrling out sampling on a zodiac from the icebreaker CCGS Amundsen near Eureka Nunavut in Canada’s 🇨🇦 Arctic @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social
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
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... 🌊
One salmon found with Fukushima Contamination in 2016 After Extended Measurement
Extended testing confirms Fukushima radiation in one BC salmon sampled in 2016. Concentrations present comprise 1% of the estimated radiation dose, the other 99% has primordial origins.
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David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last yr.Oh, so we're swimming in sewage, refusing vaccines, and drinking raw milk, but scared of a little radioactive shrimp? C'mon!
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
🌊🧪 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...
Why work at UVic? - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria
Get information on the working environment at the University of Victoria.
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🧵🌊 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-...
The history of the ocean, as told by tiny beautiful fossils » Yale Climate Connections
Climate change and declining biodiversity are the two biggest environmental crises facing humankind today, but predicting how they’ll play out together is tricky. Ideally, scientists would study how l...
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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
Jay T. Cullen@jaytcullen.bsky.social · last yr.🌊🧪 This was my attempt to describe isotopes and how we use them to determine the fraction of lead (Pb) from various natural and anthropogenic sources to a lay audience. Have you ever had online meetings with someone and then be surprised by their appearance when you first meet in person?
🧪 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
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