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Dr. Marie @AugerMethe selected as a Science meets Parliament delegate oceans.ubc.ca/2026/02/23/dr-…

The impacts of #climatechange and #IUU #fishing, threaten the well-being of people who depend on small-scale fisheries, several socioeconomic factors increase the vulnerability and hinder the adaptive capacity of #women in particular. oceans.ubc.ca/2025/07/09/add… @OlokoJesudide

Improved order selection method for hidden Markov models: a case study with movement data and #narwhals! methodsblog.com/2025/05/26/imp… via @MethodsEcolEvol blog. @fannydupont @AugerMethe

Current goals to protect 30% of marine areas won’t be sufficient to protect ocean megafauna, according to an international team of scientists that includes #UBC statisticians and fisheries researchers. @UBCoceans @UBCStatistics doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

COMMENT: Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever. Co-authored by @DrRashidSumaila. nature.com/articles/d4158… via @Nature

The application deadline for our 2nd cohort of Africa-UBC Oceans & Fisheries Visiting Fellows Program has been extended to June 30, 2025!!! More information and to apply: oceans.ubc.ca/applytoafricau… @ccm_ucc @CapeVars

Out today in PNAS from @RowennaGryba, @AugerMethe and others.....pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

So thrilled this paper found a great place to land! Thankful for all the time spent talking seals, and reviewing and correcting model outputs! It’s a privilege to get to work with all these amazing Knowledge holders and researchers :) pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Marie Auger-Méthé (@AugerMethe), @UBC, is a highly original interdisciplinary researcher whose work in the development and application of novel statistical methods provides impactful insights to the ecology, movement, health, and behaviour of animals... #rscBRAVOsrc #RSCCollege

✨Msg for PIs in FoS: we are accepting proposals for Data Science Catalyst Program until Friday, Dec 13 - Wonderful opportunity to work with a data scientist on your data-intensive projects! @ubcscience @ubcmath @UBC_CS @UBCStatistics @UBCChem pls see below link for more info 👇

@UBCStatistics Profs. Alexandre Bouchard-Côté & Trevor Campbell, along with collaborators from UdeM & SFU, are leading a CANSSI CRT project on distributed MCMC methods. Funded grad student positions available in Bayesian stats & computational methods: bit.ly/3YOaztn

.@ZoologyUBC alum Dr. Fiona Beaty’s (@fionabeaty) PhD directly cultivated her values of creating knowledge that advances Indigenous stewardship in B.C. Read more about bridging the natural sciences research-to-action gap: bit.ly/498FWnv

From American Samoa to Canada’s Pacific Coast UBC ecologists Drs. Alex Moore (@Dr_AlexM) & Fiona Beaty (@fionabeaty) are taking a page from the anthropology playbook to create research projects with Indigenous people. @UBCBotany @ibiosprogram @UBCForestry ubcscience.medium.com/bridging-the-n…

Two new Canada Research Chairs have been appointed at UBC Science: Dr. Tao Huan (@TaoThuan), @UBCChem, and Dr. Daochen Wang, @UBC_CS. The CRC for Dr. Mathav Murugan of @ubcmath was renewed. science.ubc.ca/news/november-…

Interested in understanding how fish spawning events affect gull movement and reproductive success? Come do an MSc with Mark Hipfner (ECCC) and I (UBC). Application deadline Nov 15, details: tinyurl.com/5e5tz34w

Interested in postdoctoral research on the interactions of aquatic #invasivespecies & #climatechange? Check out this @mcgillu Biology postdoc position in freshwater science. It's an opportunity to work with multiple profs, including me, on one or more team projects.

PICTURES: Dr. Andrea Reid and Dr. Marie @AugerMethe were inducted into the @src_rsc's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists on November 8, 2024. @RSCTheAcademies oceans.ubc.ca/2024/11/08/mar… @ubcscience @UBCStatistics

The Dept of Botany at @UBC invites applications from exceptional emerging scholars for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair appointment in Plant Resilience for Food Security. Full-time tenure-track Ass't Prof. Start date no earlier than July 1 2025. @UBCBotany bit.ly/40tp20x

Dr. Andrea Reid, the principle investigator of #UBC’s Centre for Indigenous Fisheries will be inducted as a Member of the Royal Society of Canada on Friday. Her research explores the complex interrelationships among fish, people & place. @RSCTheAcademies @src_rsc @ubcoceans

Statistical ecologist Dr. Marie Auger-Méthé (@AugerMethe), of @UBCStatistics & @UBCoceans, will be inducted as a Member of the Royal Society of Canada on Friday. @RSCTheAcademies @src_rsc