OCF student named as a UBC’s Climate Solutions Research Collective 2024/2025 Solution Scholar
The Solutions Scholars will work on one of four collaborative projects over the 2024/2025 year with an interdisciplinary group of faculty and community members.
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Psychotics get in Reefs’ heads
Despite their appalling record, however, the Reefs had their first spectator of the season: the department’s beloved Bayesian Master’s student, Delaney Hicks, so enthralled by all the softball updates that she needed to see the team play for herself.
A Few Good Softballers
Despite two 5-run, mercy rule inducing bottom innings, the game somehow stayed close. Like the outlier in your data, the Reefs could not be willed away.
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Chemical Induced Reef Degradation
Darin’ Taryn commented after the game, “with this loss, our record looks about as good as the FISH 500 trash fish that’s deteriorating in that ESB museum.” Chemistry Department Destroys IOF Going into their fifth game of the season and ranked dead last in the league, the Reefs faced their biggest rival yet, the Chemistry […]
Business as Usual
“It turns out a lot of the Cubs’ best players just weren’t at the first game but showed up for this one,” said Skipper Kristen Sora, “and unfortunately a bunch of our worst players also showed up.”
Pelagic Ecosystems Lab wins BC Conservation & Biodiversity Award
The award will fund a project to provide high resolution zooplankton biodiversity data by integrating eDNA, and the Zooscan imaging system, to establish a biodiversity benchmark for the wider BC coast.
Psychological Ballfare
*Editor’s note* The regular softball sportswriter was benched for using the Canadian spelling of “offense” last week. Here at the red white and blue IOF sports desk, we don’t allow that kind of thing.
IOF Shows Up and Kicks Assets
“It was weird to be winning a game for once,” said bench coach Dana “Fisher” Price, “but not weird like the pizza toppings after IOF seminars, weird in a good way.”