Lab News Archive

2024

Our first paper from the Blue Carbon Canada project is out today! Led by post-doc Graham, it maps carbon stock in the ocean soft sediment habitats in Canadian waters. Check it out here or read the policy brief, the news article in the National Observer, or the popular science article in The Conversation!, May 2024

Julia is interviewed for two articles surrounding the current global coral bleaching event. Check them out on our media page!, April 2024

Our kelp team has a new paper out! Check out former post-doc, Sam Starko’s, newest paper and the article the team wrote for The Conversation!, April 2024

We are hiring! Do you want to work in kelp restoration and blue carbon research then check out this job ad and apply by April 15th!, March 2024 - position filled

We start off the new year by welcoming Prof. Kelton McMahon, a visiting professor from the University of Rhode Island for the next six months. And to Sara Hudda, a co-op student from Dalhousie University. We are excited to have both of them with us for the next few months!, Jan 2024

2023

PhD student, Matt Csordas’ first paper came out today on the cutest kelp, Postelsia palmaeformis, showing that despite marine heatwaves in the past years, the population has remained stable at its northern range. Check it out here for more info (or on our publications page for the PDF)!, October 2023

We had a ton of fun doing team building activities and the adventure course at WildPlay this past weekend for our annual retreat! Check out the photos of what we got ourselves into here., October 2023

Our newest paper from Kiritimati is out! Led by former Post-Doc, Sam Starko, this paper highlights impacts of marine heatwaves previously unknown. Check out the article in The Conversation written by Sam and Julia, the Radio Canada coverage, or the UVic article covering the paper., August 2023

The warm water is back…. The waters around BC are ~4C hotter than normal. We are working to document the impacts this will have. Check out the article about this marine heat wave in the Times Colonist (PDF). The article was reprinted in the Vancouver Sun. Julia also spoke to 1040FM CFAX morning show about the effects of the marine heatwave on our coastal ocean life and Brian was interviewed on CBC., July-August 2023

PhD student, Brian Timmer, is interviewed by Chek News about the impacts of the warmer than usual waters on kelp., July 2023

It was announced today that Julia and her 10 co-applicants (and many collaborators) have been awarded an NSERC CREATE to launch a new graduate training program in Coastal Climate Solutions Leaders (CCSL) beginning this September! This grant will support an interdisciplinary concentration for graduate students to gain contextual understanding of proposed climate solutions and be adept at working across disciplinary boundaries and sectors. This program consists of two courses, an internship with one of the many (>35) non-academic partners, and professional skills workshops and more. This is a huge win and a big step in training the future climate leaders! Read the UVic press-release here and check out the brief overview webpage for more information and the application form. We are working on developing a full website dedicated to this project., April 2023

We are seeking a highly qualified Postdoctoral Fellow to work on characterizing coral symbioses under global change, as part of the collaborative BIOSCAN (International Barcode of Life) project. BIOSCAN is a major new international initiative to develop a global biosurveillance system of biodiversity with emphasis on species discovery, species interactions, and species dynamics. This postdoc will leverage long-term coral symbiosis data from our long central equatorial Pacific field site, Kiritimati. The successful applicant will have a solid background in molecular ecology and be proficient at molecular laboratory work, bioinformatics pipelines, and statistical analyses, including experience coding in R and/or Python. Scientific diving experience would also be an asset. Competitive salary and benefits package will be offered, along with opportunities to conduct fieldwork and present at national international conferences. Please see the job ad if interested. THIS POSITION HAS NOW BEEN FILLED.

One week later and we have another paper out from our Kiritimati work! This time the paper is led by former MSc student Dom Maucieri., April 2023

Our latest paper from Kiritimati is published today! This paper is led by Julia and showed the overall impact the heatwave had on the corals on Kiritimati., April 2023

Julia is interviewed for an article on what might we expect with the forecasted El Niño later this year. Check it out here., February 2023

Former Post-Doc, Matt Ramirez, is highlighted in the UVic news!, January 2023

Happy New Year! We are excited to see what we can accomplish this coming year!

2022

The Blue Carbon Canada research project funded by NSERC, Mitacs, DFO, Oceans North, Kelp Rescue, and BC Parks is officially kicked off with a two-day meeting and media coverage (The National Observer, CBC, Research Money, news release)!, October 2022

The Global Young Academy report on lack of global funding for fundamental research is released! Julia helped lead the effort in collecting the data and writing the report. Kristina helped create the figures of the survey results. The report has received some media attention such as this article., October 2022

Our coral research program on Kiritimati is featured in an article in BioScience., September 2022

The lab has returned from its annual lab retreat where we had a wonderful time exploring Pender Island and getting to know each other. We also welcome Jennifer McHenry (Post-doc), Brian Timmer (PhD), Sarah Manson (Directed Studies), and Caitlin Bergman (Research Assistant) to the lab!, September 2022

Welcome to Graham Epstein who joins us from the UK for an Post-Doc researching marine soft sediment ecosystems and their role in carbon capture and storage., August 2022

Julia is elected Vice President of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution! She will hold this position for two years and then continue for another two years as president., August 2022

Continuing the good news for Lia, she was awarded Best Speed Presentation with Conservation Application at the North America Congress for Conservation Biology 2022!, July 2022

Former PhD student Lia’s newest article is out! She used priority threat management (PTM) to prioritize conservation investments and to identify management strategies that could support thriving populations of wild salmon in the Fraser River. Check it out here or read Lia’s blog or check out the media page for news articles covering this work., July 2022

Julia’s (along with 4 co-applicants and 17 collaborators) NSERC Alliance proposal looking to evaluate the current and future capacity for natural climate solutions in Canada’s oceans was approved!!, June 2022

Kaitlyn was awarded the UVic Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) Student Fellowship! Congrats!, June 2022

Happy World Ocean’s Day!! Our research project in collaboration with DFO looking at the Blue Carbon potential of Kelp was endorsed as a UN Ocean Decade Action! Check out our project and other endorsed actions on the website., June 2022

Check out the new article in the National Observer covering Sam’s research and newest article! June 2022

Photos of our work on Kiritimati are used in the recent announcement and advertisements that UVic ranked second internationally for climate action and 12th in the world for sustainable development goals in the TIMES Higher Education Impact Rankings. It is exciting to be a part of a university striving to address climate change issues., April 2022

Post-doc Kristina’s work is covered by Hakai Magazine!, April 2022

Now we get to congratulate both Brittnie and Tannin on defending their wonderful honours projects!, April 2022

Lia has successfully defended her PhD and we are so proud of her! It was a pleasure to work with her over the past few years!, April 2022

Julia is awarded the 2021 Provost’s Award in Engaged Scholarship!, March 2022

2020

Our discovery that some corals can recover from bleaching while still at elevated temperatures is published in Nature Communications and highlighted in Science! Led by former PhD student, Danielle Claar, co-authors include Sam, Kristina, Julia, former Post-Doc Hannah and a team of wonderful collaborators. Check out the paper here, a short video, and other media here, here, here, and here!, December

New article is published on the impact Covid-19 has had on US fisheries and seafood by former Post-Doc East White, Julia and others. This paper has garnered a lot of attention. Check out news articles here, here, here, and here., November
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Welcome to our new graduate students, Daisy and Matt, and undergraduate Honours and directed study students, Lydia, Rebecca, Hannah, and Emie! We're excited to have you (virtually) onboard, and looking forward to a productive semester!, September

COVID-19: we survived. What more is there to say?

Brittnie and Rebecca's diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative is covered in the Martlet., August​

WWF covers former PhD student, Geoff Osgood's, ​research on shark conservation in South Africa., July

Former MSc student, Jennifer Magel, and Julia published a news article about their recent paper on the effects of heat stress on reef fish in The Conversation., May ​

Welcome summer NSERC USRA student Brittnie Spriel!, April

A collaborative paper discussing the status and progress of Canada's effort to conserve and sustain marine biodiversity is out!, April

​Check out our new paper about the effects of heat stress on reef fish and a news article covering the work led by former MSc student Jennifer Magel!, April

​Congratulations to Lia for being awarded the C. Jeff Cederholm Scholarship from the Washington/BC American Fisheries Society chapter!, April

​​Watch Reef Rescue to learn more about Julia and the team's research on Kiritimati! ​Learn more about the film here.

Help support our research on coral reefs and climate change! We are currently raising funds for our summer 2021 expedition to Kiritimati (Christmas) Island, where we will be studying how the coral reefs are recovering from the 2015-2016 El Niño.

Congratulations to Kristina, who defended her MSc thesis on coral recruitment following mass mortality. We're so proud of her! Kristina is continuing on as Lab Manager and Kiritimati Project Manager, January

Our new collaborative paper, led by Ray Hilborn, about the effectiveness of fisheries management is out in PNAS!, January

2019

Our new paper about shark and ray diversity in South Africa is out in PLoS ONE! Led by PhD student Geoff Osgood, this work represents our fantastic collaboration with Meaghen McCord of the South African Shark Conservancy, December

Congratulations to Jenny Smith, who defended her MSc thesis on the effects of climate change on coral reef herbivory!, December

Julia's new Royal Society of Canada report on Sustaining Canadian Marine Biodiversity, led by Jeffrey Hutchings, is out! Read the report and related article in Policy Options, November

​Julia's recent guest lecture on gender bias, 'Overcoming Academia's Demons and Levelling the Playing Field for Women in Science', is available here, September

Welcome to new MSc student Dom Maucieri, and welcome back to Rebecca Hansen who joins us for a co-op semester, September

The lab had a fantastic time bonding and getting to know new members during our 5th Annual Baum Lab retreat (this time we were back on Hornby Island), Labour Day weekend

Our new paper on the importance of habitat mosaics to estuarine ecosystems is out in Marine Ecology Progress Series. Congratulations to Lia on an excellent first thesis chapter!

Julia's Commentary 'Industrial fishing boats leave few safe havens for sharks' Nature, August​

Julia was promoted to Full Professor, July 1st!

Welcome to new Coral Microbiome and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow Sam Starko!, July

Welcome new MSc student Kevin Bruce and summer NSERC USRA student Pierre-Jean Harnois!, May

Our first coral microbiome paper is out!! Led by former MSc student Jamie McDevitt-Irwin, with Becky Vega-Thurber and Melissa Garren (thanks for teaching us about microbes!), we show that both local disturbance and heat stress increase beta diversity of the coral microbiome, March

Our first SfM paper is out now in Scientific Reports! Led by former MSc student Jenn Magel, and in collaboration with John Burns, we show that changes in reef structural complexity are evident just one year after a mass coral mortality event, Feb.

2018

New macroecological paper 'Environmental conditions and herbivore biomass determine coral reef benthic community composition: implications for quantitative baselines' with former Baum Lab PhD student James Robinson is now out - our first paper in the journal Coral Reefs!

Welcome new MSc student (and returning Kiritimati Fish Team Lead) Sean Dimoff!

Baum Lab had a fantastic time in Banff at our fourth annual lab retreat.

Julia, Kristina, and the rest of the team are back from another successful expedition to Kiritimati. #Kiritimati2018, July 2018

Julia had a great time speaking about "Overcoming Academia's Demons and Leveling the Playing Field for Women in Science" and coral reefs with students and post-docs at Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station. Thanks to Larry Crowder for the invitation! May 2018

Thanks to NSERC for an extraordinary Awards day. Julia has been awarded Canada's top mid-career research award, the EWR Steacie Fellowship, Ottawa, May 2018

Julia spoke about Canadian government ocean science funding priorities at the Oceans Research in Canada Alliance (ORCA) Workshop, Ottawa, April 2018

Julia is on sabbatical in Australia and delivered seminars at the University of Queensland (Brisbane), James Cook University (Townsville), and the University of New South Wales (UNSW; Sydney), January - April;

Josie and Julia's publication on biotic homogenization of coastal seagrass fish communities is out in Global Change Biology, March

Julia and Tara Martin's Commentary 'It is time to overcome unconscious bias in ecology' is out in Nature Ecology and Evolution. Julia also spoke with Gregor Craigie on CBC Radio's 'On the Island' about the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and unconscious bias in academia, and how we may be at a turning point. Listen here, January

Julia and Danielle have new publications out on coral reefs and climate change in Science and PLoS One, January

2017

MSc student Aaron Eger successfully defended his thesis, and is off to travels throughout Asia before beginning his PhD research in Australia. Congratulations Aaron!, December

Building from their GYA report on the importance of fundamental research, Julia and Jeremy Kerr joined forces with David Naylor and published an OpEd in Ottawa's Hill Times 'Budget 2018: A litmus test for the future of the Canadian research', December

Julia gave a seminar at the University of Cambridge's Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) and had a wonderful time interacting with CCI's conservation biologists, December

Julia, Danielle, Kristina and Jenn presented at the European Coral Reef Symposium in Oxford, December

Danielle wins best PhD talk and Lia comes second in the MSc category at UVic's Annual Biology Graduate Symposium!, November

Julia had a fabulous time at the Dalhousie Marine Affairs Program's Sustainable Oceans conference, where she delivered the keynote address on corals and climate change, September

Welcome new MSc student Jenny and new lab volunteers Elizabeth and Allie!, September

We had a great time at Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre over Labour Day weekend, for our 3rd annual lab retreat!, September

The team, comprised of KI veterans Kristina, Sean and Julia, along with Jenn, Kevin, and Tyler, had a hugely successful expedition to Kiritimati for the month of July!

Julia and Kristina's new Global Young Academy report 'Restoring Canada’s Competitiveness in Fundamental Research: The View from the Bench” is out! Co-authored with Jeremy Kerr and Megan Dodd, the report has been profiled in Nature, Science and more, June​

Julia is selected as a 2017 Pew Marine Fellow!, February

​Geoff is headed to South Africa to investigate the community composition and abundance of benthic sharks in Walker Bay, a seasonal protected area, using baited remote underwater video (BRUV). Good luck Geoff!, January

2016

Jillian (former Baum lab Honours student) and Julia's paper on size-structuring and allometric scaling in coral reef fishes is accepted at Journal of Animal Ecology. Yeay!, December

​Kristina, Jen, Lisa, Maryann, and Julia are back from a successful two weeks on Kiritimati. Read about our latest research in The Globe and Mail article 'Beauty on the Brink', November

Julia is awarded the 2015-2016 Faculty of Science Award for Research Excellence, November

​Post-doc comings and goings: Josie is leaving to start a new post-doc at Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Congratulations Josie! New post-doc Laura Kehoe joined the lab to start work with Julia
​and Tara Martin on their Priority Threat Management project.

Julia spoke at Oceana Canada's symposium 'Rebuilding Abundance: Restoring Canada's Fisheries for Long-term Prosperity', which was based upon the report she and collaborator Susanna Fuller's co-authored earlier this year ' ​Canada's Fisheries: Status, Recovery Potential and Pathways to Success ', October

James and Julia had two papers on size spectra published, one in Global Change Biology and one in Methods in Ecology and Evolution, October

Julia participated in the CIFAR/GYA Co-hosted 'Global Women in Science Leadership Workshop' at the Banff Centre, October

Lia had a successful fall Fraser River Estuary sampling period with Raincoast, September
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Welcome to new MSc student Jennifer Magel! We had a fun time welcoming Jenn to the lab at our 2nd annual lab retreat, which we spent this year camping on Hornby Island!, September

​Post-doc news: Lauren has left us to start a faculty position at the University of Texas. Congratulations Lauren!!, September

See what we see underwater - in 3D! In collaboration with John Burns, our first 3D Kiritimati Island underwater imagery is up on our Kiritimati website. 

James and Julia have two size spectra papers accepted! One will be coming out soon in Global Change Biology and the other in Methods in Ecology and Evolution, August

Geoff is on the road, giving talks at ESA in Fort Lauderdale and the American Elasmobranch Society meeting in New Orleans, July/August

Lia completed her five month field season in the Fraser River Estuary with Raincoast, and Josie and collaborators completed their eelgrass and salmon monitoring across the province. Great work teams!, July
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Lia, Aaron, Josie, and their teams are all out in the field around B.C. collecting data, July

Congratulations to Danielle on being awarded a National Geographic Young Explorers Grant for her work on Kiritimati!, June
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Julia, James, Danielle, and Jamie all presented their research at the International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS) in Honolulu, and had a great time at this marathon of a conference!, June

Welcome to our lab and welcome to Canada Mathangi! We're excited to have you here for the summer!, May

​Lia's Fraser River Estuary research, conducted in collaboration with Raincoast Conservation, is covered by the Vancouver Sun 'Researchers seine for marine life off Roberts Bank port site', May

​Jamie is back from six months of immersion in the world of marine microbes in the Vega-Thurber Lab at the University of Oregon; James is off to SAFS, University of Washington for the quarter, April

Two Baum Lab teams are now in the field: Danielle, Kristina, Sarah, Sean and Julia are on Kiritimati. Lia and Josie are out in the Fraser River Estuary with Raincoast, March

​​Congratulations to Geoff on his 3 year NSERC PGS-D Scholarship. You're stuck with us now Geoff!, March

Aaron wins the Heinle Award at the Pacific Estuarine Research Symposium 2016 for his talk on his undergraduate work, March

​Maryann, Danielle, and Julia's new paper on Kiritimati 'Subsistence in isolation: fishing dependence and perceptions of change on Kiritimati, the world's largest atoll' is out. Watch Maryann's presentation of the paper, February

2015

Geoff and Julia's invited paper on reef sharks is published in the Journal of Fish Biology, December

​Julia presents 'New Opportunities for Conservation of Canada's Ocean Ecosystems' at the Royal Society of Canada's Annual Symposium: Canadian Marine Biodiversity, November

​Julia gives a seminar on coral reefs and climate change in Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, November

Welcome to Josie Iacarella, who joins us this fall as postdoctoral fellow on our new eelgrass research program!, November

​Outreach: Aaron presents two public talks on seagrass ecosystems at the North Coast Marine Speaker Series in collaboration with the Vancouver Aquarium, October

​Julia gives a seminar about El Niño and coral reefs at UVic's School of Environmental Studies, October

​Aaron and Lia had a successful second trip up to the Skeena Estuary, starting to learn about eelgrass, and meeting with scientists and managers from First Nations groups, the community college, and Vancouver Aquarium. Julia joined them for few days as well, September

​Congrats to Aaron on his Masters NSERC IPS Scholarship, in partnership with the World Wildlife Fund of Canada, September

Big congratulations to Danielle on receiving a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Scholarship! Read about it in ScienceMatters, September

We had a great lab retreat at Bamfield!, September

Danielle, Jamie, Kristina, Kieran, Lisa, Scott, and Sean completed the lab's 10th expedition to Kiritimati in July (and the fourth in the past 12 months)! August

Julia attends the extraordinary STAMPS course in Woods Hole, August

​Julia delivers a plenary talk at the Fisheries Society of the British Isles (FSBI) 39th Annual International Symposium on 'Biology, Ecology and Conservation of Elasmobranchs: Recent Advances and New Frontiers', Plymouth, UK, July

Julia leads the 'Importance of Fundamental Research' working group and a session on Membership Selection at the Global Young Academy Annual General Meeting in Montebello, May


The first paper from our Kiritimati field program is out! In Ecology! With Chelsea Wood we uncover links between overfishing, oceanographic productivity and parasites!, May

Julia delivers the keynote talk to students at Oceans Network Canada's 2015 Ocean Science Symposium, May

Julia gives a seminar at Western Washington University as the 'Graduate Student Selected Speaker', May

James teaches his first Software Carpentry workshop (in Vancouver), May

Danielle, Jamie, Kristina, and Lisa are out on Kiritimati (again!), this time with John Burns from the Gates Lab, May

The Baum lab does social occasions too, we're fortunate to have such great students in the lab, April

Julia nominated Navarana Smith, a Directed Studies student in the lab for a 3M National Student Fellowship and she won! Huge congratulations to Navi! We couldn't be happier for her. Watch Navi talk about being a UVic student and part of the 3M program, April

Jamie scores a NSERC CGS-M award for her coral reef research, congratulations Jamie! April

Congratulations to Hannah for successfully defending her Honour's thesis!, April

New article on drivers of Pacific coral reef communities, with our NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Division collaborators, is out in PLoS ONE. Read our press release here, and Adel and Ivor's article Measuring coral reef fishes by taking humans out of the picture in The Conversation, April

Julia and Easton's article Shark-counting divers off Costa Rica reveal limits of marine reserves is out in The Conversation and our new paper with Undersea Hunter is out in Conservation Biology - plummeting shark and ray populations at Cocos Island, March

Welcome to new new undergraduates Navi Smith and Lisa Szostek, January

Our new paper on nitrogen stable isotope discrimination factors and predator-prey mass ratios is Feature Article in Marine Ecology Progress Series. Great work Eric and James!, December

2014

How are Canada's species at-risk faring? Check out the new paper from the UVic Research Derby Brett and Danielle organized last year. And see Brett's related piece 'It's a Slippery Slope for Canadian Species at Risk' in in the Huffington Post, November

Congratulations to Danielle, James, and Geoff for each receiving UVic Graduate Student Awards this year!, November

Julia speaks at Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Science. Thanks to the Jensen lab for hosting!, October

Welcome to Geoff and Robert, the newest Baum Lab members!, September

Our research on Kiritimati is featured in Nature, in the story 'Stalled El Niño poised to resurge', September

The team is back from an exhausting but successful field season on Kiritimati, September. Check it out on twitter #Kiritimati2014, or visit our fieldwork pages to see photos, September

The team heads out to Kiritimati for three weeks of exciting underwater research!, August-September

Julia featured in 'Too Close to Sharks' for Discovery Channel's Daily Planet for Shark Week, August.

Julia and Lauren attend SESYNC's Summer Computational Institute, July

Thanks to an NSF RAPID grant, Danielle, Jamie, and Julia will be heading to Kiritimati later this summer to assess the impacts of the upcoming El Niño!, June

Julia presents in the 'Biodiversity change across spatial scales during the Anthropocene' symposium at CSEE's Annual Meeting in Montreal, May

Julia participates in, and presents at, the Global Young Academy's 4th Annual General Meeting in Santiago, Chile, May

Adrian successfully defends his MSc thesis! April

Julia visits Brown's extraordinary ecologists and evolutionary biologists and presents 'Coral Reef Macroecology in a Changing World', April

James and Julia co-organize ecology@uvic's first Software Carpentry Bootcamp, led by Greg Wilson, Bill Mills, and Ethan White!, April

New lab paper questions latitudinal gradients in evenness and reef fish functional diversity hotspots

Maryann awarded an NSERC USRA to continue her research with us this summer. Congrats Maryann!, March

Mairin presents 'Is an ecosystem driven by its species or their traits? Taxonomic and functional diversity in Pacific coral reef fish communities' at the Pacific Ecology and Evolution Conference in Bamfield and wins the best poster award. Congrats Mairin!, March

Maryann has been awarded a Sobey Fund for Oceans scholarship to attend Dalhousie's Master of Marine Management starting this fall. Congrats Maryann!, February

Logan successfully defends his MSc thesis! February

Julia joins Ecography as a Subject Editor, February

Danielle presents at the 2014 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, February

Danielle participates in UNAM's Light and Photosynthesis on Coral Reefs field course course in Puerto Morelos, Mexico, February

Julia joins the Editorial Board of Conservation Biology, January

Congrats to Danielle on being awarded the Women Divers Hall of Fame Conservation Scholarship, January

Welcome back Maryann Watson (from Bamfield) and welcome to new lab volunteers Michael Sullivan and Jessica Holden, January

2013

Julia presents her vision as a Dialogue Leader at CHONE's '2020 Vision of Canada's Ocean Dialogue' meeting in Vancouver, December

Adrian wins 'Best Surf and Turf' MSc Talk at the UVic Biology Graduate Student Symposium. Congrats Adrian!, November

Brett attends the Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC) in Ottawa, November

Julia joins the Editorial Board of Axios Review, a new independent peer review service for evolutionary biology and ecology, November

Julia gives the keynote talk 'Mental resilience: How to thrive in a career in science' at the 2013 SFU/UBC/UVic Ecology and Evolution retreat in Brackendale, Nov.

Danielle is awarded the King-Platt Fellowship, the 2013 AAUS Kevin Gurr Scholarship, and featured in the Women Divers Hall of Fame newsletter!

Maryann is awarded the Bob Wright and Harper scholarships. Mairin is awarded the Harper scholarship. Congratulations Maryann and Mairin!

Welcome to new Baum Lab members Brett Favaro (a new Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow), Danielle Claar, Fulbright scholar Easton White, Jamie McDevitt-Irwin, and undergraduates Gabriel David, Mitra Nikoo, and Carmen Smith! We are now officially full for this academic year.

Julia, Danielle, Maryann, and James return from an extraordinary field season on Kiritimati!

Julia appointed to the Governor General's Canvassing Committee to Enhance Global Recognition for Canadian Research Excellence

Danielle Claar awarded a UVic Fellowship to join the Baum Lab as a graduate student this fall. Congratulations Danielle! Easton White awarded a Fulbright to join the Baum Lab as a visiting researcher this fall. Congratulations Easton!

James' paper 'Interspecific synchrony of seabird population growth rate and breeding success', from his MRes with Maria Dornelas and Alfredo Ojanguren at the University of St. Andrews is published in Ecology and Evolution. Nicely done James!

Congratulations to Mairin Deith on her NSERC USRA award! Mairin joins us this summer to work on functional diversity analyses.

Our new article in TREE, 'Ecosystem Ecology: Size-based constraints on the pyramid of life', is recommended as Exceptional on Faculty of 1000. Great work Rowan!

Julia joins the Editorial Board of Nature's open access journal Scientific Reports, May 2013

Jillian's poster 'Size matters? Gape size-body size relationships in coral reef fish communities' wins 3rd place at the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE) annual meeting! Congratulations Jillian!, May 2013

Julia gives the 'Rising Star in Ecology' plenary, and has a great time with EEB's wonderful faculty and students at the University of Toronto's Atwood Colloquium, April 2013

Our new paper 'Resilience and Recovery of Overexploited Marine Populations' is out in Science!, April 2013

The crew presented at the Pacific Ecology and Evolution Conference (PEEC) in beautiful Bamfield, including Julia's plenary talk. Kudos to Logan and Adrian for organizing the conference, and congrats to Baum Lab adoptee Justin Suraci for winning best talk! Meanwhile, back at UVic, Jillian presented her research at the Honour's fair, and Maryann presented her research at the JCURA fair, March 2013

Logan is awarded the Alice M. Hay Scholarship, Jan 2013

Baum Lab welcomes new volunteers Patrick, Liam and Vivian! Jan 2013

2012

Julia presented 'Extinction Risk and Overfishing: Reconciling Conservation and Fisheries Perspectives on the Status of Marine Fishes' at UBC's Fisheries Centre, November 23rd, based upon her and Trevor's recent paper in Scientific Reports

Outreach: How to ensure recovery of dusky sharks in the Northwest Atlantic? New story by Juliet Eilperin in the Washington Post, quotes Julia, Nov 2012

New PhD student, James Robinson, is awarded a scholarship from the Leverhulme Trust, Fall 2012. Congratulations James!

In collaboration with the Starzomski and Darimont labs, we have launched Ecology@UVic! Read about us in the The Ring, Fall 2012

Maryann is awarded a Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award for her investigation of shark finning on Kiritimati, Fall 2012

Julia, Rowan, and Trevor present papers at ESA 2012 in Portland, Summer 2012

Adrian is awarded a National Geographic Young Explorer's grant for his research on Kiritimati, Summer 2012

Julia speaks on the CAUW's Voices of the Oceans Panel, June 2012

Outreach: Julia talks about the loss of sharks from Pacific coral reefs with Radio Canada International and Australia's Pacific Beat. The research is featured on CBC's As It Happens, the Discovery Channel's Daily Planet, and the Washington Post; the story trends on Altmetric and is the top science story on Google News on the weekend it's released, Spring 2012

Julia is awarded a 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship. Read about it in the CTVNews,

Julia is selected as a new member of the Global Young Academy, Winter 2012

2011

New open access database: RAM Legacy Stock Assessment Database is here. Our publication about the database in Fish and Fisheries is here.

The Baum Lab is established at The University of Victoria!, September

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