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IOF faculty and students win awards from the Peter Wall Legacy Awards program

These awards are one of the largest internal award programs at any university in North America. The suite of awards will support the research activities of tenure-track faculty members at all stages of their career, and those of Master’s and doctoral students.

Posted in 2024, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Awards, Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Burrard Inlet, coastal environment, eDNA, Faculty, honours, IOF students, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, urban environment, wastewater, watersheds

Celebrating our graduates

It is always sad to say goodbye to our graduating students.

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with graduation, honours, IOF alumni, IOF students

Why what happens on the land is critical to the health of our oceans

What is the significance of these myriad small streams to the surrounding ocean, so important to people’s livelihoods, culture, and well-being in British Columbia?

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Coastal Rainforest Margins Research Network, extreme weather, land-ocean system, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, pollution, Washington

The long road to recovery: consequences of harassment of Guadalupe fur seals pups

Breeding activity at the second breeding site in the San Benito archipelago inspired hope for the species’ recovery, but researchers were shocked by the disturbing behaviour they observed from immature males, which may jeopardize this progress.

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Andrew Trites, birth, Claudia Hernández-Camacho, Guadalupe fur seals, harassment, Mexico, MMRU, seals