The IOF Oceans and Fisheries Seminar Series is open to the public. Everyone is welcome!
The IOF Oceans and Fisheries Seminar Series invites speakers to present the latest research in a wide range of disciplines related to freshwater systems, the oceans, and fisheries. Past speakers have included public communicators, economists, ecosystem modellers, anthropologists, and ecologists. These seminars draw a diverse audience, leading to thought-provoking discussions and a sharing of new ideas and perspectives.
These seminars, also part of the FISH 500 course, every Friday during the academic year, from 11:00am to 12:00pm in the AERL Building Theatre (Rm. 120). The AERL Building is located on 2202 Main Mall at UBC Vancouver.
Term 2
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| March 20 | Dr. Sarah Fortune is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia where she is studying the foraging ecology of Northern and Southern Resident Killer Whales. She completed her PhD thesis on the foraging behaviour and diet of Eastern Canada-West Greenland bowhead whales, and previously completed an MSc on the food requirements of North Atlantic right whales. |
Eastern Canada-West Greenland bowhead whales are among the most mysterious large-whales in the world, as they inhabit sparsely populated regions of the Canadian Arctic. Consequently, little is known about when and where they feed and on what. Dr. Sarah Fortune and her collaborators used new technologies to gain insights aerially (drones) and underwater (biologgers and prey sampling) about the primary prey and foraging behaviour of this understudied species. They also used long-term satellite telemetry tags equipped with time-depth recorders to determine where key foraging habitats occurred throughout their range. Using this comprehensive approach, the team made new discoveries about the diet, feeding behaviour and ecology of the species. |
| March 27 | Harmony Martell Ocean Leaders Postdoctoral Fellow |
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger: Acquired thermal tolerance in Scleractinian corals |
| April 3 | TBA | student presentations |
| January 10 | Panellists: Peter Klein, Professor, UBC Journalism and Executive Director, Global Reporting Program Caroline Graham, IOF M.Sc. student (China) Thomas Smith, IOF M.Sc. student (West Africa) Moderator: Monique Rodrigues, UBC Journalism alum |
Panel Discussion: Fish You Don’t Know You Eat |
| January 17 | Nigel Haggan, MA, MSc, PhD | Unsettling fisheries science |
| January 24 | Ian Urbina, New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner | The Outlaw Ocean: A conversation with Ian Urbina |
| January 31 | Dr. Dyhia Belhabib, Ecotrust Canada | Spying and snitching on fishy behaviour at sea |
| February 7 | Kyra St-Pierre, Postdoctoral Fellow, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab | What happens on land doesn’t stay on land: Downstream impacts of watershed changes in northern ecosystems. This session was not be recorded at the speaker’s request |
| February 14 | Sharon Wu, Managing Director, Research Support Services | Navigating Research Support Services at UBC This session was not be recorded at the speaker’s request |
| February 28 | Dr. Jennifer Sunday, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, McGill University | The ecological mechanics of range shifts in a warming world |
| March 6 | Jeffrey Whiting, President & Founder, Artists for Conservation Foundation | Art as a force for conservation |
| March 13 | Dr. Jessica Garzke, Postdoctoral Fellow, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab | Environmental changes influence coastal plankton communities with implications on food quantity and quality for fish |
Term 1, 2019/20
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| September 13 | Rachael Sullivan Equity Facilitator UBC Equity & Inclusion |
Community Building Education: Diversity and Inclusion at UBC Video was not recorded |
| October 4 | Dr. Alejandro Buren, Research Scientist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Science advice in the context of complex and changing ocean ecosystems |
| October 11 | Dr. Laura Parfrey, Assistant Professor, UBC Departments for Botany and Zoology | Microbial community assembly on seaweeds Video was not recorded at the speaker’s request |
| October 18 | Dr. Scott Hinch, Professor, UBC Forestry | Touching salmon: When is it wrong? Consequences of release or escape from fisheries capture |
| October 25 | Dr. Gideon Mordecai, Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC | A genomic view of viruses in farmed salmon in BC Video was not recorded at the speaker’s request |
| November 1 | Dr. Evelyn Pinkerton, Professor, School of Resource & Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University | Strategies and Policies Supporting Access and Conservation by Small-Scale Fishermen in a Neoliberal World |
| November 8 | Dr. Patrick T. Martone, Professor, UBC Botany & Biodiversity Research Centre | The rise and fall of coralline algae: Evolutionary, morphological, and ecological trends |
| November 15 | Jeroen Steenbeek, Software engineer, Ecopath International Initiative | Recent advances in the Ecopath with Ecosim food (EwE) web modelling approach |
| November 22 | Marta Coll, Researcher, Institute of Marine Science (ICM–CSIC) (Barcelona, Spain) | Advancing food web modelling capabilities to analyse global ocean futures |
| November 29 | Seth Wynes, PhD student, UBC Department of Geography | How academics can lead by example in a carbon constrained world Note: Video is available, however the sound cuts out at 28.08. Video continues to end so viewers can see the full slide deck. |