Can Community-Based Participatory Action Research Save the Ocean? YES! Humans together have the power to make change.

The oceans are in peril. Acidification threatens planktons’ ability to produce shells vital to their survival, corals are dying from excess acidity, and rising sea levels threaten coastal communities (Hoegh-Guldberg, Mumby, Hooten, Steneck, Greenfield, Gomez, & Knowlton, 2007). Despite the arm waving of the climate change deniers, these threats are anthropogenic in origin (Hoegh-Guldberg et … [Read more…]

Moving to a new place!

Hi! This is my first blog post, so I ought to introduce myself. I’m Shannon and I just started my Master’s in Sociology at MUN in Fall 2018. I drove out here from southern Ontario on an epic 3-day journey with all the worldly possessions that could fit in my car. My dad and my … [Read more…]

WE ARE B-A-C-K!

Helloooo readers! Here we are, in the beginning of a new semester, full of different people, classes, and expectations! I’m having flashbacks this all of this week when I see students holding maps in their hands, and I always feel butterflies in my stomach when I look at them. Anyway, I hope you all had … [Read more…]

Welcome Back to the New School Year!

The graduate student blog is resuming for the 2018-2019 academic year. We are very excited to have nine graduate students on board, who will be sharing with us about their experiences as graduate students at Memorial. Here are bloggers who are returning to our blogging team this year: Anna Crofts is from West Vancouver, British … [Read more…]

Summer travels and paper writing!

Hello all you wonderful blog readers, As I sit here thinking about what to write for my blog post, I’m thinking back on the past two months since my last one, and a lot has happened. In July, I went to Golden, Colorado for one week for the ACS Summer School in Sustainable Chemistry and … [Read more…]

You can take the ecologist out of the field but she’ll long to be there

Hi All, You can take the ecologist out of the field but she’ll long to be there. For the past five years, when the growing season arrives I’ve packed up my backpack and have headed out to the field to spend the summer working on ecological studies.  This summer has been dedicated to thesis writing … [Read more…]

Celebrating Canada year

Hello everyone! I hope you’re having a wonderful summer, and that you’re all enjoying the warm days we had (and hopefully will have). In the picture of this post, you can see my dog and I were on one of our weekend adventures! It’s always relaxing to spend some time with him, and forget about … [Read more…]