Crowdfunding for kelp research
PhD student, Salome Buglass, is crowdfunding to support her research on an extensive mesophotic kelp forest found in the Galapagos.
Dr. Rashid Sumaila wins SSHRC’s Impact Award, Partnership Category
Prof. Sumaila is one of the world’s most innovative researchers on the future of the oceans. He is also Project Director of the SSHRC sponsored OceanCanada Partnership (OCP), and it is for his work with this unit that he won the SSHRC Impact Partnership Award.
Women, science & the sea: from pioneering whistleblowers to committed contemporaries, an embedded story for ocean sustainability
Video of this webinar is now available. Watch by clicking here.
Salmon from freshwater to the ocean: there and back again
Video for this seminar is now available! Click to watch
You can’t beat a healthy heart
New research is shedding light on the hearts of healthy marine mammals, and how they compare to human hearts
Instead of shopping this Black Friday, consider curbing your consumption
Drs. Juan Jose Alava and Rashid Sumaila are urging consumers to make the connection between what they buy on Black Friday and what eventually ends up harming our ecosystems—and our health.
Massive “ensemble” climate modelling study includes work of multiple IOF researchers
The project used nine different computer models, created by different teams around the world, to illustrate with greater clarity and range how ocean life will be impacted by Earth’s warming climate.
“Race to jellyfish” leaves Mexican fishery in turbulent water
Over the last 20 years, interest in cannonball jellyfish in the Gulf of California, Mexico exploded when Chinese investors saw that the area was a hot spot for the species.