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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 24d

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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UVic School of Earth and Ocean Sciences @seos-uvic.bsky.social · 26d

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 26d

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

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

Two scientists collecting sea water in a clean laboratory.

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

Jim Handman.bsky.social @sciencejim.bsky.social · Sep 4

B.C. oceans facing 'alarming' oxygen depletion, new study from warns www.biv.com/news/environ...

B.C. oceans facing 'alarming' oxygen depletion, new study warns

The emerging threat is now a persistent and widespread issue in Pacific Canada, and could damage the region's marine life and fisheries, a new study says.

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · Aug 20

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... 🌊

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Nathalie Redick @nredick.bsky.social · Aug 8

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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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · Jul 18

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Edwin Nissen @faultydata.bsky.social · Jul 18

Exciting new paper in GRL by freshly minted Dr. Theron Finley, who’s discovered evidence for big earthquakes with an unusually long recurrence interval (>10 ka!) on one of North America’s longest faults, previously considered inactive for many millions of yrs. 1/3

Topographic map and aerial photo showing “mole track” features along the Tintina fault in the Yukon, likely formed in repeated strike-slip earthquakes

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · Jul 10

🌊🧪 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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UVic School of Earth and Ocean Sciences @seos-uvic.bsky.social · Jun 16

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

UVic School of Earth and Ocean Sciences @seos-uvic.bsky.social · Jun 16

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

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UVic School of Earth and Ocean Sciences @seos-uvic.bsky.social · Jun 16

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

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UVic School of Earth and Ocean Sciences @seos-uvic.bsky.social · Jun 16

🧵🌊 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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UVic School of Earth and Ocean Sciences @seos-uvic.bsky.social · Jun 10

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/...

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UVic School of Earth and Ocean Sciences @seos-uvic.bsky.social · Jun 1

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 · May 31

🌊🧪 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?

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UVic School of Earth and Ocean Sciences @seos-uvic.bsky.social · May 29

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · May 28

It's been a pretty strange week.
I was interviewed a bit ago for an article about Foraminifera and a recent spate of papers.
Sadly, but predictably, @chrislowery.bsky.social got the best quote in.
@seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social

The history of the ocean, as told by tiny beautiful fossils

Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too.

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · May 27

🧪 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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Corey Garza @profcgarza.bsky.social · May 20

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...

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Washington Research Foundation

Fellowship Details Fellowships include three years of salary support for the postdoc at an eligible research institution in Washington state. The salary for the first year is $80,000, increasing to […...

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · May 14

🌊🧪 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...

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

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · May 7

🌊🧪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...

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.

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · May 13

⛏️🧪 #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

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

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EarthquakeAndrew.bsky.social @earthquakeandrew.bsky.social · May 7

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.

SchoolShake @schoolshake.bsky.social · May 7

Victoria, there was a small earthquake 17km below South Oak Bay in the wee hours last night (around 03:41 AM). This was really well detected by our @raspishake.bsky.social network of @schoolshake.bsky.social seismometers! This was a very small event at depth, so would definitely not cause any damage

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · May 10

🌊🧪 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)

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UVic School of Earth and Ocean Sciences @seos-uvic.bsky.social · May 7

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

Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · May 7

🌊🧪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...

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.

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UVic School of Earth and Ocean Sciences @seos-uvic.bsky.social · May 3

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

Understanding the Earth system through a tiny lens

About me

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · Apr 17

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

Dinosaur footprints from Canada are 1st of their kind in the world | CBC News

Scientists have identified fossil dinosaur footprints from a new species in B.C. and Alberta. They're believed to be the first tracks found in the world that were left by club-tailed ankylosaurs, offe...

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