Oceanbites Out Loud – Details, episodes & analysis

Interview by Ashley Mickens

Art by Megan Lewis, check out her other excellent work here.

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Sarah is the Volunteer and Visitor Centre Coordinator at the Maritime Museum of British Columbia. She uses her passion for Sci-Comm and diverse educational background to encourage both visitors and volunteers to learn more about the ocean.

Check out the links below for volunteer opportunities:

https://gorge.ca/volunteer/

https://seaquaria.org/get-involved/volunteer/ 

https://mmbc.bc.ca/volunteer

https://www.salishseacentre.org/volunteer

Interview by Ashley Mickens

Art by Megan Lewis, check out her other excellent work here.

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On our latest episode we interview Matt Miller. Matt is a PhD candidate at the University of Victoria in the Dower Lab. He studies marine snails called pteropods (AKA sea butterflies) as a bioindicator for ocean acidification. Matt recently published a new paper and you can read more about his research here. 

Surfrider Foundation: https://canada.surfrider.org/

Insta: @matt_millr_

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For this Oceanbites Out Loud episode we interview Rebecca Crawford. Becca is a Master's student at the University of Victoria who works in the Varela Lab. She studies phytoplankton dynamics in the Northern Pacific & Arctic. 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/becca.crawford.165

Website: https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/varelalab/rebecca-crawford/

Interview by Ashley Mickens

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Valeria (they/them) is a Master's student at the Universitat Politècnica de València in València, Spain. They study the ecology relating to the invasive blue crab, with the goal of improving monitoring for marine ecosystems and implementing sustainable conservation strategies.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valeria-contreras-casado-80435a251

Recorded and Edited by Ashley Mickens

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We interview oceanbites author and leadership team member Jaclyn Torkelson. Jaclyn has recently defended her PhD at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF). She studies the chemistry of sand on coral reefs by using lipids (like cholesterol) to figure out where it came from.

Twitter: @DesertAndReef

Website: https://jftork.wixsite.com/jaclyn-torkelson

Healthy Ocean Coalition: https://www.healthyoceancoalition.org/

One People One Reef: https://onepeopleonereef.org/

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Alyssa is a PhD candidate who is studying indicators of sea level rise at the University of Haifa in Israel. Her work focuses on combining geologic, archaeological and historical records to better understand how sea level rise is changing in response to climate change.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyssa-pietraszek/

Episode Recorded and Edited by: Ashley Mickens

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Dominique is a PhD student in the Bates Lab at the University of Victoria. She currently studies multiple stressors in reef ecosystems and leads the EcoStats working group on campus. Find her online:

Twitter: @dgmaucieri

Website: https://dominiquemaucieri.com

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Did you know that seagrasses filter out pollutants in the water, create homes for fish and other small marine animals, and protect our coastlines from the threat of floods? Listen here to about this marine flowering plant. 

Article Written by Nicole Mucci

Recorded and Edited by Julie Maurer and Ashley Mickens. 

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Megan Davies is a MSc student at the University of Victoria in the Bates Lab. She studies invertebrate diversity on seamounts to better understand how oceans are being impacted by climate change.

Follow Megan:

Twitter @M_Davies 

Instagram: @muggzy_d

Episode Recorded and Edited by: Ashley Mickens

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