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.

Thanks to DNA analysis and more than a dozen difficult-to-source fecal samples, researchers are starting to understand what humpbacks eat in the deep waters of the Salish Sea.

Microplastics may pose a greater threat to marine food webs

Grunts, boops, chatters and squeals — fish are noisy creatures

Early insights by Kitasoo Xai'xais Nation about mountain goats motivated the community to explore how to protect the culturally vital species and led to research with UVic scientists and others.

New research by Indigenous knowledge holders shows the cumulative effects of industry on declining populations of moose, black bears, and lynx in the Canadian oil sands.

On June 8, UVic celebrates the role the oceans play in our lives. Our blue planet is truly special and UN-designated World Oceans Day is the perfect opportunity to come together to protect it.

The emerging science of environmental DNA (eDNA) is transforming our ability to identify and quantify creatures passing through local habitats, says University of Victoria biochemist, Caren Helbing.

How wildfires affect climate change — and vice versa

Training facial recognition on furry friends: Bears

A new method of AI called deep learning was developed by UVic researchers and private software engineers to detect and identify individual grizzly bears from photographs.

A new study overturns the conclusions of an influential paper last year on management actions to slow the decline of endangered mountain caribou in BC and Alberta. By including a fundamental statistical step, the researchers including UVic’s Chris Darimont revealed a very different result from the earlier work.

Donor funding expands a lab’s research, and teaching and outreach programs in community-driven applied conservation science.

Spirit bear hair reveals new genetic secrets

Fish air movement sounds—farts, burps and coughs—are music to fish ecologists’ ears when it comes to discovering biological sounds in freshwater habitats, giving scientists a better understanding of aquatic ecosystems and potential threats from human-caused noises.

Sandra Frey, MA grad in the School of Environmental Studies, received the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation–Master’s for her breakthrough work with wildlife camera data collection as an early warning system to detect and prevent wildlife decline, and manage land-use policies.