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NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has landed! Here at UBC we are extra excited because one of the Bennu samples is headed our way for analysis! Dominique Weis explains more in this clip... (video clips of landing/Bennu taken by NASA) #OSIRISREx #nasa #space #geochemistry #exploration #physics #astronomy #science
Climate Myths! Some people claim that "even if climate change is real" (spoiler alert, it is), "it's too late for us to do anything about it". This is another myth! Here we talk to PhD student Xueya Lu in her lab, who clarifies why this statement isn't true.
Climate Myths! Have you heard someone say that the current warming we are experiencing is part of the Earth's normal cycles? There are multiple reasons that this isn't true. We chatted with masters student Ruth Moore to discuss this myth. Ruth studies warming in the arctic and is a climate scientist.
Climate Myths! Have you ever heard someone say that our climate models are unreliable at predicting future scenarios? We sat down with PhD student Eva Gnegy to address this misconception
Climate Myths! You often hear politicians talking about climate change or global warming and saying "well it's a nice cool July day today... no climate change here!" Today we debunk why this myth is incorrect with an explanation from EOAS Assistant Prof Rachel White about why the weather and the climate are two different things.
Meet our newest faculty member - Dr. Hal Bradbury, Assistant Professor in Chemical Oceanography. Hal started in January 2023, and describes himself as a chemical oceanographer, or more technically, a marine isotope biogeochemist. Hal is currently thinking about carbon cycling in ocean sediments and how they link to the overlying ocean. Carbon cycle is key to controlling the Earth’s climate, and that the main sink of carbon from the surface to solid earth is in the oceans. Have a watch to hear more about Hal's work, or read about it here: https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/news-events/news/1678435200
Tomorrow's EGU speaker is Becca Beutel, who we had a chance to chat to last week, where she explained quickly her research. Catch Becca's presentation at 2:50 AM PDT on Wednesday morning - or if you're lucky enough to be in Vienna, 11:50 AM !
Meet Christina Draeger, a PhD Candidate in the department. Christina is headed to Vienna this week, where she will be presenting her talk on Reconstruction of Glacier Mass Balance across Southwestern Canada. Catch Christina's talk at 4:32pm local time in session CR1.1 on Monday 24th April.
This video depicts an experience Department Head Philippe Tortell had sharing his oceanography knowledge with guests on a recent Antarctic Cruise. This wasn't a normal research cruise, instead a tourist vessel with a scientific twist - watch to find out more! All graphics and videography: Junyi Sun
EOAS undergraduate student Raveen Sidhu has been selected for the prestigious Brooke Owens Fellowship. Raveen is a Senior studying Microbiology and Oceanography at the University of British Columbia, was awarded the prestigious Brooke Owens Fellowship(link is external) and will intern with Space Capital this summer. Raveen was one of 47 students selected internationally this year and one of three Canadians selected over the fellowship’s six years of existence. Watch the video to hear more about Raveen and the Fellowship!
Are you ready to play #ClimateHero ? — an online Escape Room that combines AI with climate education, designed to inspire youth to take #climateaction Stay tuned for more details!...
New Publication: The unprecedented Pacific Northwest heatwave of June 2021 A group of interdisciplinary researchers from our department, led by Rachel White, came together to analyze the conditions that created the 2021 heatwave and its consequences. -------------------- The article, ‘The unprecedented Pacific Northwest heatwave of June 2021’ outlines the atmospheric conditions which led up to the heatwave event. Their work evaluates the power of weather models to predict such extreme weather events and summarizes the impacts the heatwave had across several sectors of life in affected areas of British Columbia. The article highlights the importance of understanding the connection between climate change and the frequency of such extreme weather events. This collaborative study was born out of a seminar organized by the study’s lead author, EOAS assistant professor Rachel White. Seminar participants had so many thoughtful questions, the group decided to pool their expertise across various fields to answer their questions and summarize their findings, resulting in the recent publication coauthored by a number of faculty and graduate students across the department. This week their findings were published in Nature Communications.
Finally, as Saturday was the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, here are four of our department members telling us the most rewarding thing for them about being a woman in science.
February 11th is International Day of Women and Girls in Science! We talked with 4 members of the EOAS community (undergraduate through professor) and asked them what their advice would be to women and girl scientists.
February 11th is International Day of Women and Girls in Science! We talked with 4 members of the EOAS community (undergraduate through professor) - here they are introducing themselves, and in the coming days we will chat with them more about their experiences as women in Science.
At the end of May, a group of graduate students from EOAS as well as UVic and Chile visited Quadra Island for the first instalment of the PRODIGY field school. The group included EOAS members Philippe Tortell, Rich Pawlowicz, Ross McCulloch, Michael Bostock, Susan Allen, computer scientist Charles Perin (University of Victoria), and a cross-disciplinary group of graduate students and postdocs in oceanography, geophysics and computer science. The group visited a variety of laboratories and instrument sites at the Hakai Coastal Ecological Observatory and gained hands-on experience building and deploying a range of ocean sensors. Watch this space for more comments from students and faculty members on the trip.