Do you work on environmental history or historical ecology in the Pacific Northwest? Please consider submitting an abstract for our panel at ICEHO next summer. Led by Patrick Hayes, with more information here: nomadit.co.uk/conference/wce… #envhist #historicalecology

I had a fantastic flight this morning with Kenmore Air from Victoria #yyj to Friday Harbor. With the Sydney to Anacortes ferry suspended indefinitely this is a super service. It saved hours of driving and ferry line ups and I got to enjoy these views. A+++ experience, thank you!

I had a great conversation with Michael Hawk (Nature's Archive Podcast) about #shiftingbaselines and #historicalecology. Check out the podcast here! podcast.naturesarchive.com/2023/08/28/shi…

How is the fossil record used to understand extinction risk & inform conservation? Our review in Annual Reviews of Marine Science is now available early online: doi.org/10.1146/annure…; co-authored w/ Seth Finnegan (@sethf.bsky.social), R. Lockwood, H. Lotze, Loren McClenachan, & Dr. Sara Tenamoeata Kahanamoku.

Shifting Baselines affects how we perceive nature and our conservation decisions. Learn about this complex topic in Jumpstart Nature Podcast episode 4! Thanks Loren McClenachan, Alison Whipple, PhD, Francisco Saavedra Jr, and Ben Goldfarb for telling the story! buff.ly/3FfyNmT

Congratulations to UVic Env Studies PhD student Elias del Valle for winning the T Buck Suzuki Foundation Legacy Bursary Award! You can read more about his work here: bucksuzuki.org/time_to_consid…

Abstract submission and ICES ECR funding for the Oceans Past Initiative conference is extended to 2 Feb! Come join us for what promises to be an exciting meeting in beautiful Cornwall (with optional sea swims, garden lunches, boat and museum trips planned!) University of Exeter CEC ExeterMarine

Sea otters drive change in West Coast kelp forests, according to 100-year data. New research from Loren McClenachan UniversityOfVictoria featured in today's Science Media Centre newsletter for journalists. journals.plos.org/climate/articl…

Really excited that this paper is published! We used historical kelp surveys from 1912 to assess century-long trends in kelp along the whole California coast. Key result? Otter recovery has helped kelp forests survive #historicalecology #oceanoptimism

A quoi ressemblaient nos océans il y a 100, 1000, 10000 ans ? Dans mon dernier article pour Mediapart , des scientifiques partent sur les traces de cette abondance perdue. Merci Jeremy Jackson, Loren McClenachan, John Waldman, Ana Rodrigues CEFE: Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive mediapart.fr/journal/ecolog…

This an excellent opportunity! CRC is a great program, Victoria is a lovely place to live, and there's lots of exciting things happening with interdisciplinary climate research at UVic. Check it out:

As someone who managed to squeeze 5 years of Norwegian salary paid postdoc and publish like crazy during this time - highly recommend this Postdoc in Environmental Humanities for recent PhDs jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

"Interviews with fishermen can produce historical fish catch data at a tiny fraction of the cost of conventional data,” says #PewMarineFellow Leandro Castello. His new study demonstrates how local ecological knowledge can complement scientific monitoring. pew.org/3TYKKpp

Oh wow, great job alert! -> Marine ecosystems & global change

Great news for grad students and postdocs in Canada!

Global review of historical ecology targets conservation outcomes & diverse voices doi.org/10.3354/esr013… #environment #history #community #coproduction #diversity #policy #openaccess Loren McClenachan Andrew Trant Dr Katie Cramer Graciela Gil-Romera | [email protected] ICTA-UAB Molly Grace Aaron O'Dea Mar Sustentable Ciencia y Conservación

📣New paper! "Global research priorities for #historicalecology to inform #conservation" Diverse voices, fields, and data types are moving conservation forward int-res.com/abstracts/esr/… Loren McClenachan Kyle Van Houtan, Ph.D. Andrew Trant Graciela Gil-Romera | [email protected] ICTA-UAB Molly Grace Aaron O'Dea Mar Sustentable Ciencia y Conservación

I'm really happy to share this new paper: "Pathways for integrating historical information into fisheries management" In FishandFisheries, with Dr Katie Cramer and other lovely co-authors brought together by a Conservation Paleobiology Network working group onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fa…

Pleased to kick the fall term off with the first UVic Env Studies Ocean History Lab student-led paper! del Valle et al. "Fishing in turbulent waters: resilience, risk, and trust in British Columbia’s declining commercial salmon fishery" facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/fa…