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Dr. Julia K. Baum @baumlab.bsky.social · Apr 23

One week to get your applications in for our Blue Carbon Canada positions! Come join a collegial productive team with @taragmartin.bsky.social Sara Knox, Mary O’Connor, Graham Clark, me and our stellar set of PDFs and grad students! 🇨🇦 🌊 #dreamteam

Dr. Julia K. Baum @baumlab.bsky.social · Apr 14

We're Hiring for 8 Positions!! Interested in conducting research on nature based solutions in Canada's coastal ecosystems? Blue Carbon Canada is recruiting 3 PDFs & 5 PhD students for Sept. 2025 in partnership w @wwfcanada.org www.bluecarboncanada.ca/were-recruit... Open to int'l scholars Pls repost

We're Recruiting! — Blue Carbon Canada

www.bluecarboncanada.ca

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Dr Tara Martin @taragmartin.bsky.social · Apr 14

We’re hiring! See details below.

Dr. Julia K. Baum @baumlab.bsky.social · Apr 14

We're Hiring for 8 Positions!! Interested in conducting research on nature based solutions in Canada's coastal ecosystems? Blue Carbon Canada is recruiting 3 PDFs & 5 PhD students for Sept. 2025 in partnership w @wwfcanada.org www.bluecarboncanada.ca/were-recruit... Open to int'l scholars Pls repost

We're Recruiting! — Blue Carbon Canada

www.bluecarboncanada.ca

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Dr. Julia K. Baum @baumlab.bsky.social · Apr 14

We're Hiring for 8 Positions!! Interested in conducting research on nature based solutions in Canada's coastal ecosystems? Blue Carbon Canada is recruiting 3 PDFs & 5 PhD students for Sept. 2025 in partnership w @wwfcanada.org www.bluecarboncanada.ca/were-recruit... Open to int'l scholars Pls repost

We're Recruiting! — Blue Carbon Canada

www.bluecarboncanada.ca

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Dr Tara Martin @taragmartin.bsky.social · Mar 6

Excited to share I'm finally a tenured Professor! It's been a long journey & I'm grateful to my colleagues far & wide for your support & my amazing team at the Conservation Decisions Lab. In a time of bonkers politics, job security facilitates the ability to speak truth to power.

#Tenure

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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · Mar 5

A new book co-authored by scholars, practitioners, and students champions a centuries-old vision for the future of marine conservation. Includes content from Dr. Andrea Reid; she leads UBC's Centre for Indigenous Fisheries. sustainability.stanford.edu/news/transfo... via @stanforddoerr.bsky.social

Transforming marine conservation, one chapter at a time

A new book co-authored by scholars, practitioners, and students champions a centuries-old vision for the future of marine conservation.

sustainability.stanford.edu

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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · Jan 29

Six environmental groups are suing two federal ministers over a delay in issuing an emergency-order recommendation to protect B.C.’s endangered killer #whale population. www.biv.com/biv-rss-news... via @bivnews.bsky.social

Canada sued over delay in protecting endangered killer whales

An 'imminent threat' assessment in November 2024 set a ticking legal clock that requires two ministers to recommend an emergency order to Cabinet — but they have yet to do so.

www.biv.com

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Dr Tara Martin @taragmartin.bsky.social · Jan 28

It’s such a mild winter in the Pacific Northwest… Lomatium utriculatum in bloom already!

Dr Tara Martin @taragmartin.bsky.social · Jan 25

Spring is in the air and I’m dreaming of the flowers that await. #camasmeadows #salishsea #deerstewardship

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Daniel Stewart @d-stewart.bsky.social · Jan 22

NEW PAPER ALERT!

We provide the first genetic evidence of cattail hybridisation in British Columbia, and demonstrate that field-measureable traits are still useful for differentiating cattails at this point in time in the region.

link.springer.com/10.1007/s122...

Decrypting the Invasion of Non-native Cattails (Typha spp.) in the Fraser River Estuary, British Columbia, Using Morphological and Microsatellite Analyses - Estuaries and Coasts

Hybrid cattail (Typha × glauca), a hybrid between native T. latifolia and introduced T. angustifolia, has been recently identified through macroscopic traits in the Fraser River Estuary (FRE), Canada....

link.springer.com

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