🌊 Ride the Wave! 🌟 We’re thrilled to kick off our campaign, asking 1 million incredible individuals to support our mission by donating just $1 each to Black in Marine Science Nonprofit! Every dollar counts, together, we can create meaningful change BIMS.org/Ride-the-Wave 💙

Maui Fire organizers WON big: $1b in direct relief and an Airbnb phase out. It’s time for rest and celebration, but this is only the beginning. Follow Our Hawaiʻi for more. hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/05/03/gro…

🌊 Check out this article recently published in Nature 'Ecologists: don’t lose touch with the joy of fieldwork' by BIMS member, Chris Mantegna. 🌍 Explore the importance of hands-on experience in ecology and reconnect with the great outdoors. Link in bio! 🌊

National Chief is planning to meet with Air Canada president, has called on him for solutions, including having a mandatory #FirstNations member on their BOD, a protocol for FN peoples and their sacred items, cultural training for their staff, including a meeting with elders.

My book, Sparrow Loves Birds, releases in ONE MONTH! 

Sparrow teaches how to ID common backyard birds by their color, sound, and movement. The book also includes a beginner-friendly field guide and tips on how to start birding.

Preorder yours! hachettebookgroup.com/titles/murry-b…

So proud of our boy, Matthieu Lavallee for launching his rocket (with his team) from University of Waterloo at the First Nations Launch. They did such a great job! 🚀 ❤️

Northern Ontario is not empty lands, it is home to thousands of Ojibwa and Cree. It has been their land for thousands of years.

🌊 Exciting news! 🌟 Get ready for #BIMSWeek coming December 1-7 in sunny San Diego, California! 🏖️ Don't miss out on this incredible event celebrating diversity and excellence in marine science. Early bird registration tickets are available now at bims.org/bimsweek-2024. 🎟️

TIME: Robert D. Bullard Writes to the Next Environmental Justice Leaders | TIME time.com/6958830/earth-… Bullard Center for Environmental & Climate Justice #TimeEarthAwards

Indigenous advocates at UNPFII say the green transition is neither clean nor just.
Their message isn't new, but it is gaining urgency as funding for green energy projects grows. grist.org/global-indigen…

Although Kānaka Maoli have consistently & unambiguously voiced opposition to building TMT at Mauna Kea—a sacred mountain to the Indigenous people of Hawaiʻi—we all must continue to voice opposition. Tell the U.S. National Science Foundation board that it SHOULD NOT fund TMTHawaii!

bit.ly/NSFdontfundTMT

Boozhoo! Bianca indizhinikaaz. Mashkawizii-niibawiikwe indigo. Makwa indoodem. Miskwaagamiiwi-zaaga'igan indonjibaa. Ogaakaaning indaa.

I am a proud member of Red Lake Nation, and we need help getting our lands back with bills HF4780 and SF5080 in MN. 🧵 chng.it/csTDdByGxb

I think the best part of bringing the #BIMSTidalWave here is showing the world that yes we do exist and somehow we still have panels with no diversity. You can’t say it’s because we not here it’s BECAUSE YOU DIDN’T TRY. I now have an international case study proving this 💯thanks

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced it'll provide $1.6 billion of federal funds to one of the US Extremely Large Telescope projects, either the Giant Magellan Telescope or Thirty Meter Telescope. After decades of protecting Mauna Kea from TMT, this is a critical moment that will shape its future.

.Dr. Kelsey Leonard &co advance principles for #Ocean -centered governance aimed to help meet the challenges of the UN #Ocean Decade.
#Ocean Decade24

plos.io/3eCZisO

Proud to represent Black in Marine Science in style as we pick up our #OceanDecade 24 badges for tomorrow! Kolisa Yola Sinyanya (PhD) 🌍🇿🇦 🇿🇦& Dr. Dawn Wright + @deepseadawn.bsky.social 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 (with her new UCSB Geography cap 🧢 too)!
#OceanDecade #BrandingMatters #RepresentationMatters

Last September I was invited to be in workshop hosted by the National Academies & The Royal Society on Researcher Access to data. I discussed Indigenous data governance in biodiversity data (chapter 4). If interested, the full report is now available!

nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27520/…

Two new faculty positions at Scripps Institution of Oceanography aim to unite STEM/Public Health/Health Sciences w/ African American/Black Diaspora Studies thru innovative research, coordinated teaching, + targeted service
Asst Prof: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03928 Assoc/Full: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03929

SCOOP: the Māori King and other Indigenous leaders will gather tomorrow to sign a treaty recognizing whales as legal persons.

the movement is rooted in the Māori worldview, which sees whales as ancestors, one Māori conservationist writes for Atmos: atmos.earth/a-descendants-…

Excited to share my lab’s Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab latest manuscript, “Slow Violence to Disasters: Exploring racialized topographies & contextualizing social vulnerability to flood & other environmental risks” led by our dual degree masters students, Asia Jones!👏🏾

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…