UVic School of Earth and Ocean Sciences

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.

🧪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-...

We @seos-uvic.bsky.social are particularly proud of our students in the BSc in Climate Science

@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

🌊 Call for abstracts now open for Goldschmidt 2026 to be held in Montréal PQ 🇨🇦. Deadline is Feb. 26, 2026 conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/...

‘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

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.
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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."

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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.

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:
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Look it's @fraass.bsky.social from @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social ! 🔬

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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Two scientists collecting sea water in a clean laboratory.

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
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@dalhousie.bsky.social @nrcanada.bsky.social @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvic.ca

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Why work at UVic? - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria Get information on the working environment at the University of Victoria.

🌊🧪 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...

4/ As climate change drives modern forams poleward and reduces tropical diversity, Fraass warns: these ancient records aren’t just history they’re early warnings. "Geology gives us glimpses of futures we should try to avoid." @uvicscience.bsky.social

3/ Fraass and colleagues found that modern plankton communities emerged ~15 Mya after cooling stabilized. Fossil records show that ecological changes often happen before mass extinctions key knowledge for interpreting today’s ocean disruptions

2/ The K/Pg extinction (~66 Mya) wiped out ~90% of planktonic forams. It took 10 million years for their diversity to recover. Later events like the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and global cooling at 34 Mya also reshaped ocean life in major ways

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...

🧵🌊 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-...

Portrait of Dr. Chris Barnes

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
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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...

Picture of Dr. Tia Anderlini in survival gear from the HMCS Margaret Brooke in Antarctica

🌊🧪 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...

Ocean Networks Canada hiring Chief Executive Officer in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada | LinkedIn Posted 11:14:22 PM. Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is a world-leading, not-for-profit organization that supports ocean…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

🌊🧪Job Alert!!! @oceannetworks.ca is looking for a Chief Executive Officer. Come join us at the University of Victoria 🇨🇦

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A dramatic Arctic fjord landscape with steep, dark rock faces dusted in snow.

A dramatic Arctic fjord landscape with steep, dark rock faces dusted in snow.

⛏️🧪 #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)