Ellie Weir
@EllieWeir9
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PhD Student in Biology @UVIC | Currently in @PacuareReserve studying climate change impacts on leatherback sea turtle hatching success 🐢
Victoria, British Columbia
Joined December 2018
RT @AmandaEBates: @EllieWeir9 and team have translocated leatherback turtle nests to the hatchery @PacuareReserve. getting ready to assign….
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RT @sustainablesam_: PhD opportunity at Univ of Toronto to work in an exciting, multi-investigator study of microplastic sources and fate i….
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Thanks @KarenKidd12!! Final submission in and off for some cake 🍰🎉. Endlessly thankful to everyone who cheered me on along the way!.
A huge congratulations to @EllieWeir9 on an excellent MSc defense. 👏👏👏. It is great to see all your hard work on microplastics in 🐟 and🌊come together. Thanks to her great committee @SBalshine and Patty Gillis of @ECCCSciTech . @bio_mcmaster @MacBGSS
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RT @sustainablesam_: Our paper is out!🎉🍾 “Are We Underestimating Anthropogenic Microfiber Pollution? A Critical Review of Occurrence, Metho….
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RT @LaurentianSETAC: Graduate student opportunity in Ecotoxicology with @RyanPros at @UofGuelphOAC @UofG_SES looking at microplastics in so….
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RT @DebrisTracker: Are we inadvertently participating in the Tide Pod challenge? . "While PVA can be fully biodegradable, wastewater treatm….
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Best way to spend a Saturday night - 2/2 ✅ Massive thank you to everyone at @WinterberryMed for running such a fantastic clinic! Can’t wait for that #moderna to kick into action.
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RT @UofTTrashTeam: We hate to be a party pooper but balloons often end up as litter and similar to other plastics, often become smaller par….
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An Ontario biologist estimates as many as 960,000 plastic helium balloons may end up in Lake Erie every year, based on a nearly two-week cleanup effort across seven kilometres of beach. She hopes...
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Loving the @LaurentianSETAC @SETAC_PNC conference. Looking forward to meeting new and old friends at the social tonight! If you’d like to learn more about my research on microplastics near wastewater treatment plants, you can check out my presentation #LaurentianPrairieResearch
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RT @WilsonToxLab: Our waders went missing, I had buy new ones quickly & they only had men’s. So they fit in the feet but not in the hips &….
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RT @MacBGSS: It's Wednesday, just keep swimming🐟. Thanks @jenni_veli from @KarenKidd12 Lab for telling us about your important work! https:….
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RT @Imogennapper: Remember plastic microbeads in facial scrubs? 🤔 . In 2015, our research at @plymuni found up to 3 million could be in one….
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Sliding into Monday! Glad to see that some of these turtles have recovered and are ready to head back to the ocean. Amazing effort from @SeaTurtleInc. Cold Stun Sea Turtles Returning To Gulf of Mexico via @FacebookWatch.
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After an exhaustive 24-hour effort that went through the night and has just ended this morning, Sea Turtle Inc. was successfully able to release more than 2,200 previously cold-stunned turtles into...
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RT @SeaTurtleInc: We have surpassed more than 4,900 cold-stun sea turtles in the largest recorded cold-stun event in history. These endange….
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RT @scisally: Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science! I'm so glad to have worked with so many smart, strong, and passionate te….
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