15 November: Weekly Wrap-Up

PhD and Postdoctoral Opportunities

PHD OPPORTUNITY: Developing Genomic Strategies for Coral Reef Conservation (The University of Western Australia) https://researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/projects/13y6q8 | Close date 31 Dec 2025

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FUNDING: Gulf Ecosystem Initiative is a $3.5 million partnership between the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) in Santa Barbara, CA and the NOAA RESTORE Science Program to fund synthesis science and postdoctoral research covering three themes: climate change, fisheries, and the ecological impact of management actions. Closing date 15 March 2025. https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/gulfeco

Job Opportunities

UNESCO Ocean: Consultant to develop a holistic Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme (ODTP) – Monitoring and Tracking Tool to better support implementation, tracking and monitoring of the ODTP. Apply by 17 November https://ow.ly/bycu50U4XF8

Grant Opportunities

Canadian Ocean Literary Coalition: Blue Schools Canada Experiential Learning Grant. The Blue Schools Canada (BSC) Experiential Learning Grant, one of three grant types currently offered by COLC, provides funding to schools to offset the costs of experiential activities related to ocean-water-climate learning in Canada. Apply at https://colcoalition.ca/grants/bsc-grant/ on a first-come first-served basis until 25 February 2025.

Upcoming Workshops and Seminars

ICES Workshop on Management Strategy Evaluation for North Sea Herring | 10-12 Dec 2024 ICES HQ, Copenhagen, Denmark | Register https://lnkd.in/eKaXZeqV

Other Seminars

Plymouth Marine Lab’s virtual side-event with @GlobalOceans at #EastAsianSeasCongress2024 in collaboration with

@PEMSEA & the Common Oceans Cross-sectoral Project. Watch the session here.

Member Publications

Dr Lisa Blackmore’s chapter “Imagining Post-Extractivist Futures” in Momentum: Art & Ecology in Contemporary Latin America (eds Inés Katzenstein, María del Carmen Carrión, and Madeline Murphy Turner). Read more.

Call for Papers

Anthropology in Action's new editors Dr. @PardisShafafi and Dr. Samira Marty seek submissions following the theme "Anthropology at the Frontiers" for 2025. View the full call and submission guidelines here: https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/aia/aia-overview.xml?tab_body=submit

khōréō magazine calls for submissions of fiction on the theme of SYMBIOSIS: https://www.khoreomag.com/submissions-fiction/ Submissions due 30 November 2024.

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