New Zealand Ocean Acidification Community

https://tos.org/oceanography/article/introduction-to-the-special-issue-on-building-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-in-the-ocean-sciences
nice to see a range of programs to improve the diversity of researchers in ocean sciences.

Introduction to the Special Issue | Oceanography In his inaugural “The Oceanography Classroom” column for Oceanography in 2000, Dean McManus noted: “A particular challenge for higher education is to include more members of underrepresented groups in the study of the ocean. Fifteen years from now, 40% of the traditional undergraduate-​​ag...

CSIG Species Key

NIWA New Zealand are hosting an Early Career Science night in Tāmaki Makaurau!! Make sure to register if you are interested!

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.analchem.3c03720
Very cool - use your smart phone to determine pH.... new low cost pH measurements - sensitive enough to test open water pH changes.

Toward Citizen Science-Based Ocean Acidification Observations Using Smartphone Devices pH is a key parameter in many chemical, biological, and biogeochemical processes, making it a fundamental aspect of environmental monitoring. Rapid and accurate seawater pH measurements are essential for effective ocean observation and acidification investigations, resulting in the need for novel so...

Looking for your next career opportunity?

Cawthron is currently seeking candidates for a number of exciting research positions including a Marine Ecologist, an Aquatic Pathologist and a Post-Doctoral Researcher focused on marine antifouling technology development.

Applications for these roles close on 29/10/2023 | https://cawthron.elmotalent.co.nz/careers/careers/jobs

Tōkia ki te hiringa matua o te taiao. Become an intern in the Te Kūwaha Graduate Programme! 🙌

The internship provides x2 recent Māori science graduates (BSc or MSc) with an opportunity to learn and engage in delivering Māori environmental research.

Successful applicants will join Te Kūwaha, NIWA’s National Centre of Māori Environmental Research, where they’ll engage, conduct research and operate at the interface between science and Te Ao Māori by working across a wide range of research projects at NIWA.

Interested? Find out more and apply here 👉 https://careers.sciencenewzealand.org/jobdetails/ajid/6f4N9/Te-Kuwaha-Graduate-Intern-NIWA,53021.html

Learn more about the Te Kūwaha Graduate Programme here ➡️ https://niwa.co.nz/tekuwaha-interns

📍 Hamilton or Wellington based (negotiable)
📅 12-months fixed term, full time
⏰ Applications close 5 November

📸 2023 Te Kūwaha Graduate Interns Rose Kuru and Ruby Mckenzie Sheat.

Coastal Ecology Technical Officer Job in Island Bay, Wellington Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington is recruiting a full-time Technical Officer to work in the Coastal Ecology Lab in Island Bay.

📣INTERNSHIP WITH GOA-ON

5-week Part-Time GOA-ON OA Week Remote Coordinator Internship opportunity for early career ocean professions (ECOPs) to be a part of the OA Week Planning Team alongside the GOA-ON Secretariat. GOA-ON aims to offer opportunities such as these to provide ECOPs experience in different careers, exposure to the global ocean professional community, and opportunities to strengthen a diverse set of skills.
To apply, please email the GOA-ON Secretariat ([email protected]) with a brief (max 1 paragraph) description of why you are interested in this position, your predicted time availability, and location where you are based BEFORE THURSDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2023.
This is a voluntary position and you will receive an Official Certificate and recognition across the network.

https://oceanacidificationstripes.info

A Floating University for the Pacific Islands Enabling students from Pacific Island nations to conduct research at sea and provide an environment to help young scientists progress in their careers whilst meeting Pacific Island needs for ocean science

Do you own or use a boat around New Zealand coastlines or lakes? ⛵ Our scientists often use boats for both work and pleasure, and are currently working with Massey University to help improve tsunami hazard and risk communication to the boating community. 🌊 Please take part in our survey to help inform the design of tsunami advice for boaties and marine users: https://gnsscience.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0ChrL6wkOJ5z1lk

Summer Student - Coastal Science Job in Auckland CBD, Auckland Great opportunity for students with an interest in coastal sciences to work with RIMU for the summer!

Environmental DNA Senior Scientist Job in Nelson Central, Tasman Opportunity for a PhD qualified Scientist to join our Molecular Surveillance team, ideally with well-established professional networks

📢 Marine biogeochemistry lecturer/researcher job alert. 📢

NIWA and the University of Otago are seeking a Lecturer/Researcher in marine biogeochemistry, with experience in carbonate chemistry.

This is a joint appointment across both organisations. The successful applicant will hold a PhD degree and be an active researcher in marine biogeochemistry to enable them to maintain and grow national analytical carbonate research and capability, and to teach and supervise students in marine chemistry and chemical oceanography. 🌊

Find all the details here ➡️ https://otago.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=2301273

📅 Applications close 10 September 2023
⏰ Permanent, fulltime
📍 Dunedin

Calling all young budding scientists! 🥼 🌏 🔬

Here is your chance to take part in science and conservation projects across Aotearoa New Zealand with NIWA and the BLAKE Ambassador programme. 🙌

We have seven opportunities available at NIWA to take part in marine, climate, atmospheric and freshwater science around the country. 🌊

You could be out in the field collecting data, in the lab conducting experiments, looking after kingfish in Bream Bay, or even jumping onboard our research vessel Tangaroa! 🐟 🚢

Interested? Get all the details and apply here ➡️ 🔗 https://www.blakenz.org/programmes/blake-ambassadors/

📅 Applications close 13 August.

📸 NIWA 2022/23 BLAKE Ambassadors Zoe Barbenel, Sanaa Nair, Grace Mitchell & Nikita Jones.

Join us this Wednesday, 2 August, at 15:00UTC for the next GOA-ON Webinar, co-hosted by the North American Hub to hear about "Global Ocean Acidification Indicators and the NOAA strategy for Carbon Dioxide Removal Research"

Registration: https://tinyurl.com/54zjut99

Cawthron Institute Cloud HR - Administration - Career - View Job - Summer Scholarship: Restoring Aotearoa’s seagrass using seeds We have an exciting opportunity for up to seven tertiary students to work with Cawthron scientists over the 2023-24 summer.

Don't forget to get your abstract in for this year's NZOA workshop in glorious Nelson. Deadline 16 July. For registration and full conference details, go to

Conferences — NZOAC The NZOAC holds a conference each year open to researchers, stakeholders, industry and other interested parties. Details of past conferences and workshops are below.

Job: Senior Lecturer (Marine Science) / Researcher (NIWA) in Marine Carbonate Chemistry

Senior Lecturer (Marine Science) / Researcher (NIWA) in Marine Carbonate Chemistry Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

We are recruiting a new Marine Ecology Technician to join our team based in Northland.

You will be responsible for a diverse range of tasks that include planning and leading the delivery of marine field work: managing and analysing ecological survey data; maintaining critical kit to assure its safe performance; and assisting in the development of boating and diving capability through the mentoring and training of colleagues.

⏰ Closes on 4th June
📍 Based in Bream Bay, Northland
🗓️ Permanent, full time

Apply now! ⤵

https://www.seek.co.nz/job/67503902?type=standout =0a49bf510102f8537b6c011bcb27927c20b0c145

Talofa lava! 🙂

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 (𝗘𝗣𝗔𝗜)

1. Project Officer, Pacific Climate Change Centre (PO, PCCC)
2. Senior Project Officer, Pacific Climate Change Centre (SPO, PCCC)

𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲: 2 June 2023 - 23:59

For more information: https://bit.ly/3lvD3rR

NEW ZEALAND MARINE SCIENCES SOCIETY AWARD - New Zealand Marine Sciences Society The New Zealand Marine Sciences Society (NZMSS) Award is presented to a person who, in the opinion of the NZMSS Council has been instrumental in achieving the objective of the Society to advance knowledge and understanding of marine science in New Zealand. The award recognises “a person’s contin...

Dr Christopher Cornwall, one of our ex-chairs of our society, will be presenting a public talk 31st of May 6 pm at the Royal Society on the work that won last year's Hamilton Award on the impacts of climate change on coral reef carbonate production (i.e., reef growth). If you are interested, please RSVP below:

The Survival of our Coral Reefs Dr Christopher Cornwall, the recipient of the 2022 Hamilton Award, will talk on the threats and future growth of coral reefs.

Great idea to use cabbage tree leaves for rope instead of plastic. Congratulations Prof. Kura Paul-Burke on being promoted to professor in Marine Science.

The wahine professor who is making waves in marine science Using traditional ways in combination with science, Kura Paul-Burke helped restore a decimated mussel population to nearly 800,000.

NZ VR is expanding and is looking for part-time Educators! - Blake NZ Environmental Educator – part-time Exciting opportunity to connect young people to the marine environment through virtual reality and experiential learning programmes. Ability to inspire kaitiakitanga and educate our rangatahi to care for the marine environment. Work within a young, dynamic team t...

https://theconversation.com/can-seaw**d-save-the-world-well-it-can-certainly-help-in-many-ways-201459 - new article about seaw**d farming and benefits.

Can seaw**d save the world? Well it can certainly help in many ways Seaw**d is in the spotlight for so many reasons. It all sounds too good to be true. So can this wonder w**d live up to expectations and fulfill its promise to save us from ourselves?

Today is World Ocean Acidification Day. 🌊

About 30 percent of the C02 released into the atmosphere is absorbed by the world’s oceans. As the oceans absorb increasing C02 from the atmosphere, the water becomes more acidic – this process is known as ocean acidification. 🧪

Ocean acidification can be detrimental to sea creatures with carbonate-based shells and skeletons such as crustaceans, shellfish, coral and more. This sea life is a critical part of the food web, meaning ocean acidification threatens the delicate balance of life in our oceans. 🐚

Aotearoa New Zealand is home to the Munida time-series transect; a long-running record of ocean pH measurements taken along a 65km line off the Otago coast. Established in 1998, it’s the only time series of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.

Six times a year for the last 23 years, NIWA marine chemist, Dr Kim Currie has taken the same boat trip from Dunedin to collect ocean chemistry data to add to the time series. Her careful data collection has been vital for teasing out the trend that shows the open ocean is becoming more acidic as it absorbs more atmospheric carbon dioxide. 📈

📸 Rebekah Parsons-King

Huge congratulations to NIWA marine chemist Dr Kim Currie who has won the New Zealand Marine Sciences Society Award! 🎉🙌

Kim was recognised for her incredible work on ocean acidification and leading the Munida Time Series – a record of ocean pH measurements taken off the Otago coast since 1998 and the only time series of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. 🌊

Six times a year, for the last 24 years, Kim has taken the same boat trip from Dunedin to collect ocean chemistry data to add to the time series. Her careful data collection has been vital for teasing out the trend that shows the open ocean is becoming more acidic as it absorbs more carbon dioxide. 📈

As well as being internationally recognised for her research, Kim is also a fantastic mentor for students and has worked hard to make the trips available to all that want to come, supporting a huge amount of post graduate science to take place that would have been more difficult otherwise.

Fantastic work Kim and a well-deserved win! 👏

Congratulations to Dr Kim Currie from NIWA for being awarded the NZMSS award. Kim is internationally recognised for her work on ocean acidification. She started the Munida time series during her PhD and has continued (stubbornly) to do monthly voyages to monitor the carbon chemistry of the waters offshore Dunedin across the subtropical front out to the sun-Antarctic waters offshore. This is the longest running OA time series in the southern hemisphere and part of the NZOA-ON network and the global GOA-ON.

Many students and researchers have piggybacked on the voyages for the Munida time series- so it has provided an important platform for many marine scientists to collect their own data.

Kim is an advocate for FAIR data and making sure it’s all open access. she has sat on many international committees representing and showcasing NZ marine science on the global stage.

She is also a wonderful role model and mentor! A well deserved award. Congratulations Kim.

The Hamilton Award encourages scientific research in New Zealand by early career researchers. Our recipient Dr Chris Cornwall, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, was celebrated for his work on the impacts of climate change on coral reef growth globally.
To find out more, read here: http://bit.ly/3Emtm4S

Apply now for Young Pacific Leaders Conference 2023 - fully funded! Applications due November 23, 2022.

We are now accepting applications from emerging leaders across the Pacific to attend the Young Pacific Leaders Conference in Guam in April 17-20, 2023. #

See details and apply here: https://www.meridian.org/project/young-pacific-leaders-conference/

What is ?

YPL is a network of emerging leaders in the Pacific Islands. The program started in 2013. The YPL community consists of emerging leaders from Australia 🇦🇺, Cook Islands 🇨🇰, Fiji 🇫🇯, the Federated States of Micronesia 🇫🇲, Kiribati 🇰🇮, the Marshall Islands 🇲🇭, Nauru 🇳🇷, New Zealand 🇳🇿, Niue 🇳🇺, Palau 🇵🇼, Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬, Samoa 🇼🇸, Solomon Islands 🇸🇧, Tonga 🇹🇴, Tuvalu 🇹🇻 , Vanuatu 🇻🇺, New Caledonia 🇳🇨, Wallis and Futuna 🇼🇫, French Polynesia 🇵🇫 and the American affiliated Pacific (Guam 🇬🇺, American Samoa 🇦🇸, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 🇲🇵, and Hawaii)

US Embassy New Zealand U.S. Embassy Australia US Embassy Apia, Samoa U.S. Embassy France U.S. Embassy Suva U.S. Embassy - Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea US Embassy Kolonia US Embassy Koror US Embassy Majuro Office of Insular Affairs

Photo credit: Sylvia C. Frain

This year, the annual NZOAC conference is being replaced with a one-day meeting on 21 November. OA Day is a chance to reconnect with the OA community and participate in small-group discussions on current topics in OA research. Register before 1 November using the link below:

15th Annual NZOAC Conference This year, the NZOAC Conference is being held jointly with the 2022 NZMSS/NZFSS conference (22-25 November, Auckland University of Technology), where NZOAC will have a special session for the presentation of research talks. For NZOAC members, the University of Auckland is hosting a pre-conference OA...

COP27 Virtual Ocean Pavilion Opens Today, Aug 29 Come visit the GOA-ON booth at the COP27 Virtual Ocean Pavilion, 29 August through 18 November, 2022, and catch up on GOA-ON's latest news, documents, and webinars. 

Ocean acidification impacts s***m swimming performance and pHi in the New Zealand sea urchin Evechinus chloroticus Highlighted Article: Sea urchin s***m performance and internal pH are reduced in ocean acidification conditions, with a high degree of individual variation in both measures.

Student Research Grant - New Zealand Marine Sciences Society The NZMSS Student Research Grant was established by society members during the 2006 Annual General Meeting. The grant is intended to help graduate researchers take their work further than academic funding allows and to provide exposure for their research. Applications from a broad range of marine di...

Abstracts — Waitī Waitā We are accepting both oral and poster submissions. A full document of submission guidelines can be found below; please familiarise yourself with these before making your submission.

Waitī Waitā Waitī and Waitā are two stars in the Matariki cluster. Waitī is connected to fresh water and Waitā is connected to the ocean. This year’s joint meeting of the New Zealand Marine and Freshwater Science Societies celebrates the connectivity between Waitī and Waitā, by bringing together knowled...

Is a threat to shelled ? It's time to rethink this important question with the biggest meta-analysis of nearly 1000 studies! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/smll.202107407