Future of Marine Ecosystems Lab

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A couple other photos from the symposium!

Earlier this week some of our members attended and presented at @OceanTracking 2024 Symposium! Kudos to everyone for their outstanding presentations and contributions!

The best kind of social is a lab social ⛵️🌅

Happy #WorldOceanDay2024! Today, we celebrate the beauty and importance of our oceans! Let's take a moment to appreciate them and commit to protecting them for future generations. Whether it's reducing plastic use, or participating in clean-up activities, every action counts🌊🐠

Lab members @KBoerder and Sam attended the Coastal Protection Act Rally last Wednesday! Joining so many others in demanding the full implementation of the #CoastalProtectionAct! #NSpoli #CoastalProtection @EcologyAction

some more photos from the session!

Photo by @nicwinklerphoto The Community Eelgrass Restoration Initiative in the UK with the @ProjectSeagrass! Learning a lot about growing and caring for eelgrass seeds and shoots; lessons that will be brought back to Canada to inform restoration efforts here on the east coast!

Lab members @KBoerder and Amy spent a week at @univmiami working with and learning about the new AquaX, created by an ecosystem modeler @Nuestracr. He has ~30k marine species distributions modeled globally (incl. mammals, fish, reptiles, cephalopods, bivalves, etc)!

Happy #worldseagrassday! For more information on eelgrass and what you can do to protect our local populations, visit eelgrass.ca/ Go to cmm.ns and unir.ca to learn more about the culturally significant Katew (American eel)

Last week lab member Amy Irvine completed and passed her master's defence! Amy now officially has her MSc in Marine Biology! Congrats Amy! 🥳🥂🎓

A very fun lab social staking at the Oval a couple weeks ago! ⛸️⛸️

The FOME lab would like to introduce our new eelgrass research and community engagement project – The Community Eelgrass Restoration Initiative (CERI)! CERI is an equal collaboration between the FOME lab and the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq. CERI launched earlier this year!

Lab member @KBoerder will be giving a seminar with the TransCoastal Adaptations Centre today at 12pm! Follow this link for more information and to register transcoastaladaptations.com/…

This week, some of our students learned how to prep samples for Elemental and Stable Isotope Analysis! #WomenInSTEM

@AmyIrvinee talking about her research at @DalhousieU's #LETTSymposium. Amy is researching climate change caused species distribution shifts off the east coast of Canada.