2023/24
The Canary in the Coal Mine is Black and White: Chemical Contaminants of Concern and Hydrocarbons in Endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales from BC, Canada
Dr. Juan Jose Alava
March 15, 2024
Enhancing Marine Conservation through Adaptive Management in the Northern Shelf Bioregion MPA Network: Insights from a Commercial Fisherman
Fraser McDonald
February 16, 2024
Part 1: Zombie ideas in marine ecology: ruminations around thresholds for hypoxia impacts
Part 2: The importance of collaborative interdisciplinary research to white sturgeon recovery and conservation
Dr. Jordan Rosenfeld
Dr. Steve McAdam
January 26, 2024
Fear and food drive blue whale migration, singing, mating, and calving behavior
Dr. Trevor Branch
January 19, 2024
Blue injustices, human rights, and ocean defenders
Dr. Nathan Bennett
November 3, 2023
Marine Stressors Magnified: Lessons from the Sea of Marmara Catastrophe
Dr. Nazli Demirel
October 27, 2023
Advanced Models and Solutions for Mitigating the Impact of Ship Noise on Marine Mammals
Dr. Rajeev Jaiman
October 13, 2023
Future of mariculture under climate change
Dr. Muhammed Oyinlola
October 6
Deciphering legal terminology for fisheries scholars
Adam Soliman
September 29
The Gill-Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT): current trends and challenges
Dr. Daniel Pauly
September 15, 2023
Student Presentations
March 31, 2023
- Anna Schuhbauer (Postdoctoral Fellow, Fisheries Economics Research Unit)
Global economic impact of scuba dive tourism - Yulia Egorova (PhD, EOAS)
Global diversity and biomass of mesopelagic mesozooplankton - Shabnam Shadloo (PhD, OCF)
Exploring the relationship between toxoplasmosis infection and movement and behaviour of Glaucous-Winged gulls - Karly McMullen (MSc, OCF)
Plastic pollution perceptions in Ecuadorian mangrove communities
Global blue trade its role in sustainable food systems
Dr. Jessica Gephart
March 24, 2023
The environmental footprint of global food production
Dr. Ben Halpern
March 17, 2023
The future of spatial ecology, transboundary management & the High Seas
Dr. Guillermo Ortuño Crespo
March 10, 2023
Addressing the challenges of overexploitation, invasive species, and climate change to ocean sustainability
Dr. Nicola Smith
March 3, 2023
The role of sociality in cetacean ecology, evolution, and conservation
Dr. Amy M Van Cise
February 17, 2023
Salmon Futures: Science and Stewardship of Salmon Systems in an Era of Rapid Change
Dr. Jonathan Moore
February 10, 2023
Marine Heatwave-Driven Transformation of Coral Reef Ecosystems
Dr. Julia K. Baum
February 3, 2023
The Anthropocene Ocean: challenges and prospects for ocean sustainability
Dr. Jean-Baptiste Jouffray
January 27, 2023
Coastal wetland ecology and conservation: The role of predators
Dr. Alex Moore
January 13, 2023
Arts-based participatory research methods for more inclusive area-based ocean management
Mia Strand
November 25
Portrait of the marine biodiversity in the Canadian Arctic
Dr. Philippe Archambault
November 18, 2022
Ocean in need of Blue Governance
Dr. Pierre Failler
October 16, 2022
Ocean in need of Blue Governance
Dr. Pierre Failler
October 14, 2022
Doing Treaty: An alternative fisheries governance model for Mi'kmaq Aboriginal and Treaty Rights to fish in Nova Scotia
Shelley Denny
October 7, 2022
Recent tensions between productive opportunities and conservation risks: case studies on fish, fisheries and aquaculture in southern Patagonia
Dr. Facundo Llompart
September 23, 2022
Tinkers, seeders and squishy lobster: Science in support of Treaty fisheries
Dr. Megan Bailey
September 16, 2022
Session 1: Scientific Career: Ecological Modelling, Fisheries Ethics, History of Fisheries & Session 2: Scientific Legacy: Students Mentored by Dr. Pitcher
Moderator: William W. L. Cheung
Beth Fulton
Svein Jentoft
Dianne Newell
Moderator: U. Rashid Sumaila
Cameron Ainsworth
Divya Varkey
Szymon Surma
Session 3: Dr. Pitcher’s Scientific Career and Legacy, & Closing Remarks by Dr. Pitcher
Moderator: Mimi E. Lam
Paul Hart
Daniel Pauly
April SGaana Jaad White
Tony J. Pitcher
Messages to honour Dr. Pitcher
Tamamta (All of Us): Indigenizing and Decolonizing Fisheries Education, Research, and Governance in Alaska
Dr. Jessica Black and Dr. Courtney Carothers
March 25, 2022
Global risks of labor abuse and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing
Dr. Elizabeth Selig
March 18, 2022
Many hands make light work: crowd-sourcing reveals population status for Weddell seals in Antarctica
Dr. Michelle LaRue
March 4, 2022
Cumulative stressor impacts: towards a holistic measure of salmon health and condition
Dr. Kristi Miller-Saunders
February 18, 2022
Sustainability at scale. Connecting 300,000 small-scale fishers in Latin America and the Caribbean for the mobilization of knowledge, solutions, and capital opportunities
Dr. María José Espinosa Romero
January 28, 2022
Co-creating deep sea science in a large ocean state
Dr. Lucy Woodall
January 21, 2022
Expecting the unexpected: understanding and forecasting ecological responses to low dissolved oxygen in coastal ocean ecosystems
Dr. Tim Essington
January 14, 2022
SPECIAL SEMINAR: Women, science & the sea: from pioneering whistleblowers to committed contemporaries, an embedded story for ocean sustainability
Dr. Camille Mazé
December 3, 2021
SPECIAL SEMINAR: Salmon from freshwater to the ocean: there and back again
December 1, 2021
Student and Postdoc presentations
Josh McInnes (MSc student); Max Miner (MSc student); Kristen Sora (PhD student); and Harmony Martell (postdoctoral fellow)
November 26, 2021
Identifying entry points to enhance the adaptive capacity of small-scale fishing communities
Dr. Jeremy Pittman
November 19, 2021
DFO and the Salish Sea
Dr. Ian Perry
November 12, 2021
Extending the hidden Markov model for analysis of animal movement data
Dr. Vianey Leos Barajas
November 5, 2021
Ecological and evolutionary effects of warming on plankton and insect communities
Dr. Michelle Tseng
October 29, 2021
Strategies for increasing the representation and success of Black Women in Oceanography – lessons learned from the Ocean Womxn programme in South Africa
Dr. Katye Altieri
October 22, 2021
Saving seahorses to save the seas
Dr. Amanda Vincent
October 15, 2021
SPECIAL WEBINAR: Towards sustainable, resilient and just food systems and the role of aquatic foods
October 6, 2021
The underwater epidemic; emerging viruses in wild Pacific salmon
Dr. Gideon Mordecai
October 8, 2021
Getting values and valuation right is fundamental to achieving Infinity fish
Dr. U. Rashid Sumaila
October 1, 2021
The biogeochemical cycle of mercury in an era of environmental change
Dr. Amina Schartup
September 24, 2021
Quantitative Seminar: Role of pinniped predation in recent B.C. fish stock collapses
Dr. Carl Walters
September 23, 2021
The adaptive capacity of ocean species to respond to climate change
Dr. Stephen Palumbi
September 17, 2021
The importance of scale complexities in fisheries research
Dr. Rosemary Ommer
September 10, 2021
SPECIAL WEBINAR: Record-breaking heatwaves, aquatic biodiversity, and human communities: BC and beyond
July 29, 2021
Quantitative Seminar: Assessment models and Bayesian Decision Networks for Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) from Bay of Fundy and Scotian Shelf
Vania Henriquez
April 20, 2021
Quantitative Seminar: State-space models for animal movement
Dr. Marie Auger-Méthé
April 14, 2021
IOF student presentations
MSc: Samantha Ramirez, Kate Mussett & Kasey Stirling
PhD: Aaron Greenberg, Meaghan Efford, Rowenna Gryba
April 9, 2021
Quantitative Seminar: Confronting salmon harvest-diversity tradeoffs in large river basins
Brendan Connors
April 7, 2021
New insights into pre-contact Coast Salish salmon fisheries and implications for modern stewardship
Dr. Jesse Morin
March 26, 2021
Quantitative Seminar: Have major management changes led to more selective fishing in Canada’s Pacific groundfish fishery?
Dr. Robyn Forrest
March 24, 2021
An integrated systems model for mitigating marine plastic pollution
Dr. Ibrahim Issifu
March 19, 2021
Quantitative Seminar: Shifted spawning distributions of Canada’s iconic Northern cod: stock structure, SSB-R, reference points, management
Dr. George Rose
March 17, 2021
Quantitative Seminar: Unveiling the recovery dynamics of Walleye Sander vitreus after the invisible collapse
Christopher Cahill
March 3, 2021
Linking physiology to population persistence and human well-being in a changing world
Dr. Joey Bernhardt
February 26, 2021
Quantitative Seminar: Three challenges that will keep your harvest strategy research out of the real world, plus some ideas on how to overcome them
Sean Cox
February 24, 2021
Enabling conditions for an equitable and sustainable Blue Economy
Dr. Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor
February 12, 2021
Quantitative Seminar: Recovery and Persistence of Interior Fraser Steelhead
Rob Bison
February 10, 2021
History doesn’t have to repeat itself: Looking back at the origins of biodiversity conservation shows that decolonization is necessary for just and effective steps forward
Sara Cannon
February 5, 2021
Quantitative Seminar: A Synthesis of the Coast-wide Decline in Survival of West Coast Chinook Salmon
Dr. Erin Rechisky
February 3, 2021
Quantitative Seminar: A tutorial on stochastic dynamic programming, optimization in policy space, and DFO’s “precautionary” harvest control rules
Dr. Carl Walters
January 27, 2021
Protecting marine biodiversity in the Anthropocene
Dr. Kristina Boerder
January 22, 2021
Quantitative Seminar: Evaluation of Entrainment Mitigation Options for Seton Lake Sockeye
Dr. Eric Parkinson
January 20, 2021
The Environmental Performance Index: What can data-driven analyses teach us about sustainability policy around the world?
Dr. Martin Wolf
January 15, 2021
Quantitative Seminar: Impacts of seal predation and hatcheries on Chinook and coho salmon in the Salish Sea
Benjamin Nelson
January 13, 2021
Quantitative Seminar: Leave room for dinner: Simulation-based evaluation of no-take reserves in data deficient bushmeat harvest systems
Marin Deith
December 8, 2020
Quantitative Seminar: So, you’re considering a multi-stock, spatial, seasonal model eh? Notes from the depths of the Atlantic Bluefin tuna MSE
Dr. Tom Carruthers
December 1, 2020
Effects of environmental parameters on early life stages of commercial fishes and the implications for aquaculture
Dr. Andrea Frommel
November 27, 2020
Collaborating on Financial Innovation to Build Resilience to Ocean Risk through Nature Based Solutions
Dr. Karen Sack, President & CEO, Ocean Unite
November 20, 2020
Quantitative Seminar: Modeling long term ecosystem and productivity changes of the Georgia Strait pelagic zone
Greig Oldford
November 17, 2020
Fighting IUU fishing through improving corporate due diligence
Dr. Dana Miller, Senior Policy Advisor, Oceana Europe
November 13, 2020
Quantitative Seminar: Reconstructing small-scale fisheries effort in Peru
Santiago de la Puente
November 10, 2020
People and the Sea: A positive vision for 2050
Dr. Boris Worm
November 6, 2020
Quantitative Seminar: Effects of drought and climate on growth and abundance of Rainbow Trout in the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam
Dr. John Korman
October 27, 2020
Quantitative Seminar: A closed-loop simulation framework for quantifying the consequences of stock assessment retrospective patterns
Dr. Quang Hunyh
October 20, 2020
Quantitative Seminar: Harvest control rules for dealing with persistent changes in population parameters
Dr. Roberto Licandeo, postdoctoral fellow, IOF
October 6, 2020
"Two-Eyed Seeing": An Indigenous framework to transform fisheries research and management
Dr. Andrea Reid, incoming Assistant Professor, Indigenous Fisheries, UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
October 2, 2020
Modern slavery at sea: Working conditions in a changing marine environment
Dr. Jessica Sparks, University of Nottingham
September 25, 2020
Quantitative Seminar: Role of marine mammal predation in recent B.C. fishery collapses
Dr. Carl Walters, Professor Emeritus, IOF
September 22, 2020
The ocean genome and future prospects for conservation and equity
Dr. Robert Blasiak, Stockholm Resilience Centre
September 18, 2020
The Clam Garden Network: Exploring the social-ecological contexts of clam management in the past, present and future
Dr. Dana Lepofsky, Professor, Archaeology Department, Simon Fraser University (SFU)
September 11, 2020
Environmental changes influence coastal plankton communities with implications on food quantity and quality for fish
Dr. Jessica Garzke, Postdoctoral Fellow, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab
March 13, 2020
Art as a force for conservation
Jeffrey Whiting, President & Founder, Artists for Conservation
March 6, 2020
The ecological mechanics of range shifts in a warming world
Dr. Jennifer Sunday, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, McGill University
February 28, 2020
Spying and snitching on fishy behaviour at sea - Spyglass app
Dr. Dyhia Belhabib, Principal Investigator, Fisheries, Ecotrust Canada
January 31, 2020
The Outlaw Ocean: A conversation with Ian Urbina
Peter Klein (Professor, UBC Journalism), in conversation with Ian Urbina (Pulitzer Prize winning author and New York Times investigative reporter)
January 24, 2020
Unsettling fisheries science
Nigel Haggan, MA, MSc, PhD
January 17, 2020
The fish you don't know you eat: A panel discussion
Panellists: Peter Klein, Professor UBC Journalism & Executive Director, Global Reporting Centre
Caroline Graham, MSc Student, IOF and GRC Fellow (China)
Thomas Smith, MSc Student, IOF and GRC Fellow (West Africa)
Moderator: Monique Rodrigues, UBC Journalism Alum and GRC Fellow (Peru)
January 10, 2020
Advancing food web modelling capabilities to analyse global ocean futures
Marta Coll
Researcher, Institute of Marine Science (ICM–CSIC) (Barcelona, Spain)
November 22, 2019
Recent advances in the Ecopath with Ecosim food (EwE) web modelling approach
Jeroen Steenbeek
Software engineer, Ecopath International Initiative
November 15, 2019
Steenbeek slides (PDF)
Supporting Access and Conservation by Small-Scale Fishermen in a Neoliberal World
Dr Evelyn Pinkerton
Professor, School of Resource & Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University
November 1, 2019
Pinkerton slides (PPT)
Touching salmon: When is it wrong? Consequences of release or escape from fisheries capture
Dr Scott Hinch
Professor, UBC Forestry
October 21, 2019
Science advice in the context of complex and changing ocean ecosystems
Dr Alejandro Buren
Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard
October 4, 2019
International Gulf of Alaska Expedition
Dr Evgeny Pakhomov, Professor and Director, UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Dr Brian Hunt, Hakai Professor in Oceanography, UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
March 28, 2019
Winter is coming: Freeze tolerance in the intertidal
Dr Katie Marshall
Assistant Professor, UBC Zoology
March 22, 2019
Toward a unified science of ecological change: Advances in metabolic scaling and biodiversity science
Dr Mary O'Connor
Professor, UBC Zoology
March 8, 2019
Putting Science in Fiction: a panel discussion
Panelists: Kristi Charish, Seanan McGuire, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
March 1, 2019
From partner to watchdog: The evolution of SeaChoice, Canada’s sustainable seafood program
Dr Sarah Foster, National Manager
Kian Veitch, Seafood Supply Chain Analyst
SeaChoice
February 15, 2019
Evidence-informed conservation and management: An aquatic perspective
Dr Steven J. Cooke
Professor, Carleton University
February 8, 2019
When and how to worry about Ocean Acidification: the case of the Greenland Shrimp fishery
Dr Brooks Kaiser
Visiting Professor, University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
January 18, 2019
Anguillid eel conservation: A global perspective
Dr. Matthew Gollock
Chair, Anguillid Eel Specialist Group, IUCN Freshwater Fish Specialist Group
January 11, 2019
Skipper Otto's Community Supported Fisheries
Shaun Strobel
Co-founder, Skipper Otto's
November 30, 2018
Surprising global tradeoffs and synergies between fisheries and conservation
Prof. Matthew G. Burgess
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
November 16, 2018
21st century fisheries management on Canada’s Pacific coast
Neil Davis and Dr Robyn Forrest
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
November 2, 2018
A Land Down Under: Starting up Sea Around Us - Indian Ocean
Dr. Dirk Zeller
Professor of Marine Conservation, Sea Around Us - Indian Ocean, University of Western Australia
October 26, 2018
Fish Wars
Dr. Philippe Le Billon
Professor, UBC Department of Geography and Liu Institute for Global Issues
October 19, 2018
A new generation of ocean observing approaches to link plankton dynamics to fisheries science and management
Dr. Philippe Tortell
Professor, UBC Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
October 5, 2018
Nitrogen Hunting from Land to Ocean
Dr. Sybil P. Seitzinger
Director, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions
September 21, 2018
Biogeography and spatial ecology in fisheries research: The spatial dimension of fisheries
Dr. Jose Mª Bellido Millán
Professor, Spanish Institute of Oceanography
September 14, 2018
Unsettling Environmental Review: Thoughts from the Pipelines and the Poetics of Place Project
Dr. Nigel Haggan
(for more details about this film, please contact Nigel Haggan)
September 7, 2018
Ocean warming, marine fisheries and climate adaption: Insights from the Northeast US
Dr. Katherine Mills
Research Scientist, Gulf of Maine Research Institute
October 29, 2018
How much fish do they eat? The science behind food requirement estimates for marine mammals
Dr. David Rosen
Research Associate, Marine Mammal Research Unit
October 22, 2018
Rodents of Unusual Size: The value of marine mammals in the lab for ocean conservation science
Dr. David Rosen
Research Associate, Marine Mammal Research Unit
October 22, 2018
10,000 years after Neolithisation, the shift from fisheries to aquaculture on a global scale: consequences, and possible solutions
Dr. Fabrice Teletchea
Professor, University of Lorraine
June 29, 2018
Dr. Teletchea appeared as part of the 2018 French Scholars Lecture Series sponsored by the Consulate General of France in Vancouver, and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.
Invasive Asian carp: how did they get here and how do we stop them?
Dr. Peter Sorensen
Professor, University of Minnesota
May 11, 2018
A brief history of Canada's iconic Northern cod: decline, recovery and what comes next
Dr. George Rose,
Professor (retired), Memorial University of Newfoundland
April 29, 2018
Lessons learned from Management Strategy Evaluation in BC's fisheries
Dr. Robyn Forrest and team,
Quantitative Assessment Methods Section, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
April 6, 2018
Experiences in the development of operating models for global fisheries: the inconvenient, the incoherent and the inexcusable
Dr. Tom Carruthers
Assistant Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
March 23, 2018
Subsidies, climate change, high seas protection and the fair sharing of the global ocean
Dr. Rashid Sumaila
Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
March 16, 2018
New methods for estimating the status of data-poor fisheries
Dr. Rainer Froese
Senior Scientist, GEOMAR
Helmholtz-Centre for Ocean Research
March 9, 2018
Science in the service of conservation of Canadian freshwater fish species-at-risk
Dr. Eric (Rick) Taylor
Professor, UBC Department of Zoology
Director and Curator of Fishes, Beaty Biodiversity Museum
March 2, 2018
Reshaping societal expectations: Four reasons why mature economies should converge on zero economic growth
Dr. Jordan Rosenfeld
Aquatic Scientist, Applied Freshwater Ecology Research Unit
February 16, 2018
From Seahorses to Sharks: Species Conservation for the Global Oceans
Riley Pollom
Programme Officer, IUCN SSG Shark Specialist Group, Simon Fraser University
February 2, 2018
Under Pressure: Vulnerability and resilience of marine ecosystems and fisheries to multiple stressors
Dr. Fiorenza Micheli, David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science, Co-Director, Center for Ocean Solutions
Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University
January 19, 2018
State-space models: the good, the bad and the ugly
Dr. Marie Auger-Méthé. Assistant Professor, UBC Dept. of Statistics and Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
January 12, 2018
The plight of freshwater fisheries and prospect of using protected areas to sustain them
Dr. Peter Sorensen, Professor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology
University of Minnesota
January 5, 2018
Measuring the carbon footprint of global fisheries and aquaculture
Dr. Robert Parker, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Fisheries Economic Research Unit
December 1, 2017
The UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs: leadership through engagement
Dr. Moura Quayle, Director pro tem, UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
November 24, 2017
Trends and future priorities for market-based marine conservation initiatives
Dr. Dalal Al-Abdulrazzak, Ocean Wise Seafood Specialist and Honorary Research Associate, IOF
November 17, 2017
The Oceans Enabling Sustainable Development, and Development Enabling Sustainable Oceans: Research to Support Global Goals
Dr. Gerald Singh, Senior Nereus Fellow, Nippon Foundation – UBC Nereus Program
November 10, 2017
Reflections on an Academic Career
Judith G. Hall, Professor Emeritus, Departments of Medical Genetics and Pediatrics, University of British Columbia and BC Children’s Hospital
November 3, 2017
Recreational Shark Fishing in Florida: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of an Emerging Conservation Issue
Dr. David Shiffman, Liber Ero Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Simon Fraser University
October 20, 2017
The 21st Century Wharf
Dr. Josh Eagle, Solomon Blatt Professor of Law, Director, Coastal Law Field Lab, University of South Carolina
October 13, 2017
Perspectives on the societal contribution of small-scale fisheries
Dr. Lydia Teh, Research Associate, Nippon Foundation – UBC Nereus Program, and Changing Oceans Research Unit
Dr. Louise Teh, Research Associate, Fisheries Economics Research Unit
September 29, 2017
Are ecosystem models used for management and policy?
Dr. Villy Christensen, Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, UBC
September 29, 2017
Turning national commitments into conservation action for seahorses
Dr. Sarah Foster, National Coordinator, SeaChoice, and Honorary Research Associate; Project Seahorse
September 22, 2017
Enabling (or bracing for) the Blue Economy: equity, sustainability, and growth for the marine industrial revolution
Dr. Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Program Manager and Research Associate, Nippon Foundation – UBC Nereus Program
September 15, 2017
Why Communicate Science? SCIence Communication Action Team - SciCAT!
Dr. Jennifer Gardy, Assistant Professor, School of Population and Public Health, Canada Research Chair in Public Health Genomics, Senior Scientist at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, co-host of CBC's The Nature of Things.
September 8, 2017
Conservation Research of Giant Clams
Dr. Mei Lin Neo, Research Fellow, National University of Singapore
May 12, 2017
Fish, farms, and flow: adaptive habitat differentiation and environmental impacts on stream salmonids (plus some comparative ecosystem ecology)
Dr. Jordan Rosenfeld, Stream Ecology Scientist, BC Ministry of Environment
April 7, 2017
Ugly fish, science engagement and the indigenous basket
Dr. Dyhia Belhabib, Program Manager, Ecotrust Canada
March 31, 2017
Jellyfish - food of the future?
Dr. Lucas Brotz, Postdoctoral Fellow, Sea Around Us
March 24, 2017
Our Changing Role in Science
Dr. Brian Riddell, President and CEO, Pacific Salmon Foundation
March 17, 2017
What is the real catch amount of the world? And what is preventing us from seeing it
Dr. Daniel Pauly, University Killam Professor, UBC
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
February 17, 2017
Student Presentations - February 10, 2017
Adapting to climate change in small-scale fisheries: a regional study of Pacific North America
Melanie Ang (MSc candidate)
Impacts of physiological condition and age on migration survival and behaviour of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) smolts
Christine Stevenson (MSc candidate)
Prey and diet of juvenile sockeye salmon across spatial and temporal gradients
Samantha James (MSc candidate)
Early gonad development of the spinecheek anemonefish (Premnas biaculeatus)
Yovela Wang (MSc candidate)
Predatory aliens: Indo-Pacific lionfish on Caribbean reefs
Dr. Isabelle Côté, Simon Fraser University
December, 2015
What I learned from travelling with dolphin hunters
Stefan Austermühle
March, 2015
Conservation Economics: Close the high seas to boost global catch, equality
Dr. U Rashid Sumaila, UBC
February 27, 2015
Governing fisheries for food security
Dr. Eddie Allison, University of Washington
February 13, 2015
The role of the moral economy in North American small-scale fisheries: confronting neoliberal policies
Dr. Evelyn Pinkerton, Simon Fraser University
February 6, 2015
Sell or Perish: Analysis of Japan’s Fresh Fish Market as a Newsvendor Problem
Dr. Wilf Swartz, UBC
January 30, 2015
An introduction to fisheries law and examination of property rights in fisheries management schemes
Adam Soliman, The Fisheries Law Centre, director & founder
January 30, 2015
Quesnel Lake Sockeye Salmon: Large escapements, trophic surprises, and the consequences of density-dependence
Dr. Daniel Selbie, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Cultus Lake Salmon Research Laboratory
January 16, 2015
Skipper Ottos’ Community Supported Fishery How the Community Supported Fishery movement is changing commercial fishing in British Columbia, Canada
Sonia Strobel
January 9, 2015
March 6, 2015
- Using individual vessel quotas to reduce and manage coral and sponge bycatch in the B.C. groundfish trawl fishery, John Driscoll
- Saving Nemo (...without the bunnies), Rebecca Singleton
- Local seafood and community support fisheries (CSFs) in North America, Allison Witter
March 13, 2015
- From Kant to kippers, Jeff Scott
- Economic valuation of British Columbia's small and large scale fisheries, Darah Gibson
- Sea Changes: Contributing to the transformation of coral reef management in an evolving global climate, Ravi Maharaj
Monitoring deep-sea benthic communities on large spatial scales: a collaborative leap toward ecosystem-based management of bottom contact fisheries
Dr. Sean Cox, SFU
November 28, 2014
Sleepers creepers? Evidence of sleeper shark predation on Steller sea lions and implications for fisheries
Dr. Markus Horning, Oregon State University
November 21, 2014
Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-Community Explorations into Traditional Mariculture on the Northwest Coast
Dr. Dana Lepofsky, Simon Fraser University
November 14, 2014
Innovations and Opportunities in Small-Scale Fisheries
Dr. Ratana Chuenpagdee, MUN, Canada
November 7, 2014
Evaluating the Ethics and Sustainability of Fisheries
Dr. Tony Pitcher, UBC
October 31, 2014
Fishing Down Through the Food Web
Dr. Villy Christensen, UBC
October 24, 2014
Biology of eulachon in the Fraser River: critical knowledge gaps
Dr Doug Hay, UBC
October 22, 2014
An integrated evaluation of stock enhancement of recreational fisheries, applied to red drum in Florida, USA
Dr. Ed Camp, University of Florida
October 10, 2014
Assessment and management of Pacific halibut
Dr. Steve Martell, International Pacific Halibut Commission
October 3, 2014
Changing climate and changing behaviour
Dr. Scott Hinch, UBC
September 17, 2014