A gentle man & scholar – Dr. Michael Soulé
Our senior mentor, Paul Paquet, texted this morning to let me know that Michael Soulé had died. Earlier this week,…
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Black Lives Matter
Image credit to: BlackLivesMatter As Conservation Scientists in the Applied Conservation Science Lab, we acknowledge the pervasive racial and socioeconomic…
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An open letter against policing at the Topaz Park homeless camp
As the student-funded sexual assault centre based on the University of Victoria campus, the Anti-Violence Project has recently had to…
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Working from home… during a pandemic
Melanie displays, ‘Bears on computer screens, for when we can’t see them in the field’ while working from home during…
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Feature | Health | Multisport
2020 Victoria Youth Tri Postponed
We have postponed the 2020 Victoria Youth Triathlon, originally scheduled for June 7th, 2020. We were informed yesterday that our…
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AVP response to COVID-19
As some of you may already know, the UVic Student Union Building in which our office is located is now…
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Raincoast Conservation Foundation’s work and COVID-19
Many Raincoast staff already work remotely from home and we are encouraging them to continue doing so while following current…
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Operationalizing definitions of animal behaviour: building an ethogram
Defining animal behaviour requires careful observation and the use of measurable markers to quantify those behaviours. Recent calls for consistency…
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March 02, 2020
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March 01, 2020
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February 15, 2020
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Heart & Hands on CFUV’s “Variations on a Theme”
Acupunk, Christina and Office Manager, Rowan did a pre-recorded interview with Production Coordinator, Coco Nielsen for the CFUV show “Variations…
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New research: Indigenous knowledge and federal environmental assessments in Canada
A new peer-review article by a team of non-Indigenous and Indigenous researchers identifies surmountable and deep-rooted obstacles to improving how…
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Making space for “maybe”
When I first started learning about consent, so much of what I read and learned focused on the importance of…
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Work study positions still available!
We are hiring work study students to join our fabulous team for the rest of the school year! We have…
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Conservation Science Isn’t Always Fieldwork: And that’s a blessing too
PhD student, Lauren Eckert, pondering in the Raincoast ACS Lab. A quick Google search of the term “wildlife biologist” or…
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Connecting the invisible to the visible
As modern scientists, we frequently deal in abstraction. We are separated from the species and ecosystems we study often by…
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What did we get up to last term?
Our office is now open again for the new term, and we’re providing support sessions for folks by appointment as…
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January 01, 2020
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Come join our team!
If you are passionate about ending sexualized and gender-based violence and have experience supervising and training volunteers, you’re just what…
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Four months of learning
Bryant DeRoy presents key COMPASS workshop take-aways at our annual lab retreat. As the days become shorter, the campus hustle…
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Tracking Raincoast’s, past, present, and future
As this decade closes, it’s timely to celebrate what we have collectively achieved for BC’s coast. Raincoast’s past in the…
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Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin
Wallin is a Swedish, lesbian-identifying photographer with a focus on the visibility of queer bodies, and especially she has a…
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Feeling through rejection
Rejection… for some folks, just the thought of it makes their hearts ache, their bellies rumble and their hands sweat….
