The following UVic experts are available to media to discuss environmental and climate change topics ahead of Earth Day (April 22).

The POLIS Project on Ecological Governance is hosting a film screening and conversation at the University of Victoria to showcase the importance of freshwater management and governance in celebration of World Water Day.

Hailey Davies, Vanier scholar, dives into fish welfare affected by noise pollution, leading rockfish conservation and fostering science literacy through outreach.

Andrew Ambers, who graduates this June with a degree in Indigenous Studies and political science, has combined his interests, research, heritage and thought-provoking perspectives on waterways to propose a promising new approach to resource management policy and law.

For 60 years, multiple experiences of UVic students and researchers across disciplines have been shaped by the ocean. From a campus that’s a few short steps from coastline, our engagement with the global ocean has defined UVic research and its breakthroughs.

UVic historian Elizabeth Vibert has produced a documentary, Aisha's Story, about Palestinian refugee Aisha Azzam, who is keeping Palestinian cultural legacies alive though growing and milling wheat.

Louie Lopez has been awarded a Liber Ero Post-Doctoral Fellowship to conduct Indigenous-led environmental DNA (eDNA) ecosystem monitoring with the Chipewyan Prairie Dene and Cold Lake First Nations in Alberta.

Geography grad student Kate Herchak is reclaiming her Inuk ways of knowing, being and doing in the world through cross-cultural research with Maasai youth.

Ripple effect: Global basins dry up and threats ecosystem

Newly published research from the Solid Carbon project shows that atmospheric carbon dioxide injected into the subsea floor off Vancouver Island may turn into solid rock in about 25 years.

Microplastics may pose a greater threat to marine food webs

UVic is leading a team that has been awarded a $1.65-million NSERC grant to train emerging engineers to work on water and sanitation projects in Canada and abroad.

Ocean staff and researchers are conducting work aimed at creating solutions that not only targets some of Canada’s current and future climate needs, but also provides real-world solutions that have the potential to change the world’s climate issues.

The threat to water security is just as urgent as the climate crisis, says Oliver M. Brandes of UVic’s POLIS Water Sustainability Project in a Q&A about hope, funding and the need for action.

What happens when Indigenous People lead resource decision-making on their own terms, across their own traditional territories? Communities in Tanzania and Canada are documenting and sharing their experiences, supported by a University of Victoria Department of Geography project that illustrates how partnerships can advance the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

UVic’s ocean women in social sciences are scientists and researchers who are making a difference with work that honours, values and promotes the benefits of collaboration and cooperation.