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16 posts from Ocean Nexus

Announcements

Bookmark These New Websites for Future Rivers, Ocean Nexus Center & Washington Ocean Acidification Center

We’re thrilled to present three new websites for Future Rivers, Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center & Washington Ocean Acidification Center (WOAC).

Nature: River conservation by an Indigenous community

Populations of river fish are threatened by pressures on land and water resources. Networks of reserves managed by Indigenous people at community level offer a way to conserve fish diversity and enhance yields of nearby fisheries.

Announcements

Second edition released: Adapting research methodologies in the COVID-19 pandemic

This second edition of "Adapting research methodologies in the COVID-19 pandemic" includes new insights from interviews with researchers who have had to change their methods - includes discussion of ethics implications when using enumerators, and the potential for decolonizing research.

Media Coverage

Congratulations to the UW Highly Cited Researchers

Researchers Eddie Allison (Ocean Nexus), Julian Olden (Future Rivers) and Spencer Wood (Nature and Health) are affiliated with EarthLab

Media Coverage

How social science is continuing to change and improve marine ecosystem conservation and management: Part I

Sarah Carr, editor at The Skimmer, interviewed Ocean Nexus Director Yoshi Ota and Ocean Nexus Deputy Director Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor to learn about how social science is continuing to change and improve marine ecosystem conservation and management. This is the first excerpt.

Announcements

Meet the Ocean Nexus Indigenous Ocean Ecologies Fellows

Ocean Nexus is proud to welcome five undergraduate student fellows and one graduate student fellow in Indigenous Ocean Ecologies, a new program created in partnership with the UW Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies (CAIIS) and Department of American Indian Studies. This year-long research fellowship is focused on the intersections of sovereignty, wellbeing, and environmental justice among Indigenous coastal communities, especially in the Pacific Northwest.

Oceans

TIDE BITES: Enhancing Resilience: a Constant Challenge in a Changing Climate

Ocean Nexus Center Postdoctoral Fellow Kirk Sato wrote this opinion piece for Tide Bites at the Friday Harbor Labs. It was reprinted in the San Juan Islander.

Climate

Martinique’s Pink Mangroves Signal an Ecosystem Under Stress from Climate Change

Frederique is an associate Ph.D. student with the University of Cambridge and a fellow for The Nippon Foundation: Nereus Program. She and her colleagues were able to confirm the cause of the pink water that appeared in Martinique's mangrove forests over the summer.

Media Coverage, Oceans

Justice and sustainability: Geographer focusing on fair ocean governance in international project

From our economy to our culture and health, our interactions with the ocean are a part of our daily lives in Newfoundland and Labrador. It is only fitting, then, that Memorial University is one of the research universities that is part of the Ocean Nexus Center.

Oceans

A “Green New Deal” for the oceans must prioritize social justice beyond infrastructure

“A green new deal for the oceans must prioritize social justice beyond infrastructure” adds to a recently published peer-reviewed article which declares that oceans are largely absent or separate from the policy proposals listed in the GND. The timely paper published by Dundas et al. (2020) argues the importance of extending the values and proposed strategies of the GND to the oceans, including investing in infrastructure, renewable energy, food security, and habitat restoration.