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Oceans Initiative is a nonprofit team of scientists on a mission to protect marine life in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

 BC, Seattle & Scotland
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Joined July 2009
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Citizen science programs can reduce these shortcomings & provide thousands of nature lovers with an opportunity to have a positive impact on conservation. However,although citizen science can provide invaluable information for researchers. #bioscience doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf0…
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Darby Saxbe@darbysaxbe28 Jan 2025
I need people to understand how difficult it is to get an NIH grant. You spend months writing a proposal, following strict guidelines that include a detailed multiyear budget, bios of everyone on your team, plans for participant safety & ethical conduct. Then you send it off -1/n
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Hello! We are now posting over @oceansinitiative.bsky.social 🌊
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@seattletimes16 Jan 2025
Here's the latest information on Tahlequah, the orca  last seen carrying her dead calf off San Juan Island. seattletimes.com/seattle-new…

Where is Tahlequah? What we know about the mother orca and her calf

"She is trying to tell you something." While Tahlequah is out of sight at the moment, people on land continue to be concerned for her and grieve with her.

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Josh Twining@JoshuapTwining13 Jan 2025
I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University! If you are into small mammals and population ecology then check this out. Please share/repost widely!
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There is biological and political urgency for the federal government to put in place effective noise-reduction measures and an emergency order to protect endangered southern resident killer #whales, @LanceBarrettLen of @Raincoast said. #orcas nationalobserver.com/2025/01…

Even federal staff believe Canada’s ocean noise strategy lacks substance

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) staff were unimpressed with the proposed framework to address the surging problem of noise pollution, internal communications obtained by Canada’s National Observer...

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The Canadian CL-415 in action over LA.
Las Vegas Locally 🌴
@LasVegasLocally9 Jan 2025
Amphibious 'Super Scooper' airplanes from Quebec, Canada are picking up seawater from the Santa Monica Bay to drop on the Palisades Fire. Great vid from Las Vegas reporter @CristenDrummond.
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AcademicJobsOnline@ajobsonline10 Jan 2025
Position: Christopher W Clark Postdoctoral Associate: Large Whale monitoring using Distributed Acoustics Sensing, Cornell Lab of Ornithology - Cornell University, Lab of Ornithol... #AJO29547 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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Justin Trudeau
@JustinTrudeau9 Jan 2025
President Jimmy Carter. An accomplished statesman. A peacebuilder. A fundamentally decent man who showed us all what it means to live a life of purpose — to serve. We are a grateful neighbour.
The casket of Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States of America, is on display at a state funeral in Washington, D.C. Attendees bow their heads in prayer while looking on from pews inside of a cathedral.

ALT The casket of Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States of America, is on display at a state funeral in Washington, D.C. Attendees bow their heads in prayer while looking on from pews inside of a cathedral.

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Thanks @smithsonian! No, orcas (probably) aren’t reviving their old “salmon-hat” trend smithsonianmag.com/smart-new…

No, Orcas Probably Aren't Reviving the 'Dead Salmon Hat' Trend, Despite a Viral Photo, Experts Say....

A recent photo of an orca swimming with a salmon on its head has fueled speculation that the fad, first observed in the 1980s, has re-emerged off the coast of Washington state. But some experts are...

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Devastated to hear the iconic boardwalk in #TelegraphCove caught fire this morning. It’s been a special place for killer whale researchers & tourists for generations. 📸: Facebook
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Dhanya Skariachan@DhanyaTweets19 Dec 2024
HIRING ALERT: Hi folks. We are looking to hire at least 20 early career journalists as Associate Correspondents by March 2025. If you have about 6 months to 3 years of experience and dream to work with Reuters, please apply by Jan 3. For more details, refer below. Good luck!
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Honored to have contributed to a new paper out today in Nature @ScientificData where @DanielPCosta2, @RachelHolser, @theresarkeates, & *many* past and present members of the Costa lab who worked to collect, prepare, and share this incredible dataset doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-0…

Two decades of three-dimensional movement data from adult female northern elephant seals

Scientific Data - Two decades of three-dimensional movement data from adult female northern elephant seals

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Endangered North Atlantic right whales are being killed by ships & entanglement in fishing gear. This new paper by @NEAQ , @NOAA , @FishOceansCAN & others helps quantify the relative importance of those threats to guide recovery esajournals.onlinelibrary.wi…

Quantifying uncertainty in anthropogenic causes of injury and mortality for an endangered baleen...

Understanding the causes of mortality for a declining species is essential for developing effective conservation and management strategies, particularly when anthropogenic activities are the primary...

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Endangered North Atlantic right whales are being killed by ships & entanglement in fishing gear. This new paper by @NEAQ , @NOAA , @FishOceansCAN & others helps quantify the relative importance of those threats to guide recovery esajournals.onlinelibrary.wi…

Quantifying uncertainty in anthropogenic causes of injury and mortality for an endangered baleen...

Understanding the causes of mortality for a declining species is essential for developing effective conservation and management strategies, particularly when anthropogenic activities are the primary...

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Our latest paper is out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B 📄! We investigated the behavioral context of social calls in humpback whale calves. royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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Valeria Vergara@Marine_Valeria19 Apr 2024
““In a declining population…the greater the lag time between knowledge and mitigation, the more draconian the recovery actions needed.” ⁦@Duffling⁩ ⁦@Raincoast⁩ #BrightExtinction raincoast.org/2024/04/study-…

New study coins the term ‘bright extinction’ to describe the failure of Southern Resident killer...

The study reveals more action is needed to save endangered Southern Residents.

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We miss the community we used to have on here. Hope to see you on other platforms
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Oceans Initiative (@oceansinitiative) • Threads, Say more

5.6K Followers • 83 Threads • A team of scientists on a mission to protect marine wildlife and their ocean habitats. See the latest conversations with @oceansinitiative.

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