For Bourque Bearskin and Dick, the work they’ve been doing over the last few years, including the development of the #MastersProgram, is better aligning #healthcare with the principles of #UNDRIP.
The #observatory monitors temperature, water depth, oxygen & chlorophyll levels in the #ocean water. Paired to a #satellite, the observatory transmits #data every 30 mins to #researchers.
Isabelle Easton, director of campaigns and community relations for the students’ society, said the group is looking into having #MandatoryTraining for all students during orientation at #UVic, in partnership with university administration.
Both #faculty and #encampment members took issue with how the president directed blame for those incidents, with the former saying it could hinder meaningful dialogue and the latter saying they’re being #scapegoated.
The faculty group on Friday said they’re around the encampment almost 24/7 and they’re concerned the information coming the #university “does not align with what most of us have seen first hand at the encampment.”
"For Sidney’s parents, the loss is all-consuming. They’ve spent more than three months piecing together the final minutes of her life." —Lori Culbert for The Vancouver Sun
Getting ready to head out to start setup & then facilitate a memorial healing ceremony. If it starts to rain too much - we'll do it at different outdoors location, with overhead shelter.
My friend & I are going to bring some fire extinguishers & some other essential supplies to the new #StudentSpring#SolidarityWithPalestine encampment at #UVIC tomorrow. We're collecting other needed donations for drop-offs all through the new week 🍉☮️🇵🇸✌️💗🙏🍉
I'd just like to say I've been to enough protests of various topics that I have, in the past, seen anarchists, black block types, etc. I know what they look like.
I saw them before the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, and another time in Vancouver at a Climate protest. In both cases they were a tiny TINY portion of the crowd and stuck out like a sore thumb and have never, in my experience, ever been acting in connection with the overall group. They are their own thing.
There has been nothing of that sort in any protest that I have seen in these #Palestine protests. So any suggestion of such is, in my opinion, a pure fabrication and an incitement and dog whistle to Police to justify violence against the encampments.
This week in our first-year course on #ClimateChange at #UVic we're looking at climate impacts and what can be done to mitigate or adapt to them. I like this figure from the #IPCC AR6 WGIII report.
Which branches of this tree do you think we'll follow?
@kevinlovestech The one they use at #UVic asks for your State but only lists Provinces. I think the Saskatchewan parks campsite booking tool does that too. Or did.
"The B.C. Conservation Officer Service advises that if you encounter a cougar, never turn your back and never run. Pick up children, make yourself look as large as possible and keep the animal in front of you at all times."
A popular but depressing lab today in Introduction the oceans and atmosphere at #UVic. We filter sand from local beaches to find microplastics. No sample is clean.
A member of the #UVic campus community has been diagnosed with active #tuberculosis
UVic said in a #NewsRelease Nov. 8, that the risk of transmission is low and they are working closely with #IslandHealth on protocols to identify, screen and treat those who may have been exposed.
Up to five metres of sea-level rise is held in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. But, it's a problem for our grandchildren, so...
"It looks like we've lost control of melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. If we wanted to preserve it in its historical state, we would have needed action on #ClimateChange decades ago."
Also, the lead author is a (brilliant) former undergraduate research assistant I worked with at #UVic.
I keep thinking about what one of the graduate students in my department at #UVic told me. They rent in a heritage house. It's got no meaningful insulation, has drafts, poor windows. They keep their (baseboard) heating set to 11 ºC in winter (!) because the heating bill is too large otherwise. #VictoriaBC
There's no incentive at all for the landlord to update this house. There are probably disincentives, if this is really a heritage designated property. #ClimateChange#VictoriaBC
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Conspiracy of Cartographers generates maps that look like they came from fossil fuel companies (as they often did in the past) but with 66 m of added sea-level (worst-case scenario).
Went to the #UVic campus to pick up a library book when I saw this birdie just chilling by the back café entrance. How many of these dudes live on campus?! #BirdsOfMastodon