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• St. Andrew's Tour

  • When
    10 Jun 2025
  • Location
    University of New Brunswick
  • Spaces left
    43

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  St. Andrew's Tour

  June 10, Full Day

  Join us for a day trip to St. Andrews, New Brunswick to visit the St. Andrew’s Biological Research Station (operated by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans) and the Huntsman Marine Science Centre.

  Ticket Price: Guided Tour $65 (This ticket includes transportation and lunch); Self-Guided Tour $50 (This ticket only gets you a seat on the bus to and from St. Andrew's)

  Pickup Location: University of New Brunswick, exact time and location TBC

  The St. Andrews Biological Station is Atlantic Canada’s oldest permanent marine research facility. Science conducted at the Biological Station encompasses the Bay of Fundy, Gulf of Maine, and coastal ecosystems and traditional fisheries in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Participants will learn about the facility and hear about on site research on topics such as climate change, oceanography, and marine biodiversity.

  The Huntsman Marine Science Centre is a not-for-profit social enterprise with a mission to conduct world-class aquatic research. The Huntsman is open to the public, welcoming approximately 30,000 visitors each year. The Huntsman maintains a working, sustainable waterfront that is central to the educational programming it provides for children and adults, and the various types of contract research it conducts for the private sector. A tour of this facility will include a visit to the Fundy Discovery Aquarium, and opportunities to see and hear about the research conducted on site at the Huntsman from the herring fishery to the chemical spill lab that studies microplastics and chemical and oil spills, and much more!

  Please bring: 

  • Government issued ID
  • Close toed shoes
  • Weather appropriate clothing (portions of the tour will be outside, rain or shine).

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• SWCC Annual Conference 2025

  • Start
    11 Jun 2025
  • End
    13 Jun 2025
  • Location
    University of New Brunswick, 3 Bailey Dr, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3

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  SWCC Annual Conference 2025

  Theme: Re/Connections

  Location: University of New Brunswick, Fredericton campus

  June 11, 2025: Opening Reception in the evening

  June 12, 2025: Full-day Conference Sessions

  June 13, 2025: Full-day Conference Sessions featuring the final competition of the SSHRC Storytellers Challenge

  Conference Program
  

  We’ve listened to your feedback. This year, we’re pleased to offer lower registration fees than last year. We’re also once again offering one-day registration for those who can’t make the whole conference.

  (Not a member? Save money by becoming a member before registering!)

  Full Registration:

  Member: $550

  Non-member: $700

  Student: $300

  One Day Registration:

  Member: $275

  Non-member: $350

  Student: $150

  

  Breakfasts, lunches and snacks are provided as part of the conference fee. Also included in the conference fee is an opening reception on June 11th.

  Pre conference events are not included in the conference ticket price. If you would like to attend these events, you can add them as they become available on our website.

  

  Three Conference Streams

  Stream 1: Connected Practices

  With the growing importance and valuing of knowledge transfer and knowledge mobilization, researchers’ and science journalists and communicators’ goals and activities have an opportunity to grow together in a mutually supportive and beneficial way.

  What can we learn from each other? How can we work together to increase the knowledge and understanding of science outside of the academy? How do we negotiate the respective needs, goals and obligations of our respective fields of practice?

  Stream 2: Connecting People

  How do we best connect with researchers and scientists? How do we best reach our audiences? How do we bring people together to facilitate the exchange of knowledge?

  Stream 3: New Ways of Connecting

  Emerging and established digital technologies create new possibilities for science communications. How can we best use these tools to connect – with each other as a professional community, with audiences, with other stories?

  

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• Fredericton Research Tour

  • When
    11 Jun 2025
  •  
    8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    University of New Brunswick
  • Spaces left
    13

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  Fredericton Research Tour

  June 11, Full Day

  On June 11, we’ll explore the groundbreaking (sometimes literally) science in and around Fredericton.

  Ticket Price: $65 (The ticket includes transportation and lunch.)

  Pickup Location: University of New Brunswick, exact time and location TBC

  In the morning, we’ll start with a visit to the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Fredericton Research and Development Centre. The Fredericton RDC conducts research in the areas of horticulture, bioproducts, biodiversity, agro-ecosystem productivity and health, specializing in potato cropping systems at all scales.

  In the afternoon, we’ll take you on a bumper crop of tours at some of UNB’s top research facilities, including the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, home to leading mobility and prosthetic rehabilitation and prosthetic controls research (and celebrating its 60th anniversary this year!), the Marine Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence, where researchers are inventing new smart materials and developing methods of 3D printing ship parts while at sea, and the Wood Science Technology Centre, where trees, one of New Brunswick’s most bountiful resources, are processed and researched in a wide range of perspectives and applications, and likely more!

  Please bring: 

  • Government issued ID
  • Close toed shoes
  • Weather appropriate clothing (portions of the tour will be outside, rain or shine).

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• Join Us Online for the SWCC 2025 Closing Keynote: SWCC Behind the Scenes

  • When
    13 Jun 2025
  •  
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Join Us Online for the SWCC 2025 Closing Keynote: SWCC Behind the Scenes

  Date: Friday, June 13  from 3:00 - 4:30 pm Atlantic Time via Zoom

  This event is open to members at no cost; please register by June 12.
  

  Unable to attend the full conference in Fredericton? We’re sorry to miss you – but we’d love for you to join us online for a livestream of the closing plenary!

  Moderated by SWCC president Rhonda Moore, this session will feature board members who will speak to some of the current programs and initiatives underway including: our forthcoming strategic plan, results of our recent survey on the use of Generative AI in the communication of science, and our Book Awards program. Join us to learn more about what goes on at the SWCC.

  Remote participants will be able to watch and ask written questions via Zoom; we will answer as many questions as we are able directly in the session, and follow up with outstanding ones by email after the conference.

  Moderator: Rhonda Moore

  Panelists: Lucas Kavanagh, Sunita LeGallou, Terry Lavender

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