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.
Note:IOF Seminars take place on Fridays from 11:00 am to 12 noon. They will either been in a Hybrid (in-person and via Zoom), or ZOOM only format.
Schedule
Thank you all very much for participating in our Term 2 Seminars! See you when we start again in September 2023
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| September 16 | Dr. Megan Bailey, Associate Professor, Dalhousie University | Tinkers, seeders and squishy lobster: Science in support of Treaty fisheries |
| September 23 | Dr. Facundo Llompart, Researcher, Austral Center for Scientific Research (CADIC) | Recent tensions between productive opportunities and conservation risks: case studies on fish, fisheries and aquaculture in southern Patagonia |
| October 7 | Shelley Denny, Director of Aquatic Research and Stewardship, Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources | Doing Treaty: An alternative fisheries governance model for Mi'kmaq Aboriginal and Treaty Rights to fish in Nova Scotia |
| October 14 | Dr. Pierre Failler, Director of the Centre for Blue Governance | Ocean in need of Blue Governance |
| October 21 | Symposium to honour Professor Emeritus Dr. Tony J. Pitcher | |
| October 28 | Veronica Relano | El Pueblo es El Mar - The people are the sea. An initiative of the SOS project, Somos OceanoS 2030 Not recorded at speaker's request |
| November 4 | Dr. Erin Rechisky | Fisheries and Oceans Canada South Coast Area Stock Assessment: Who We Are, What We Do and Why It’s Important for Pacific Salmon Management |
| November 18 | Dr. Philippe Archambault | Portrait of the marine biodiversity in the Canadian Arctic |
| November 25 | Mia Strand, PhD researcher, Nelson Mandela University | Arts-based participatory research methods for more inclusive area-based ocean management |
| December 2 | Dr. Adaoma Wosu, The Landscapes and Livelihoods Group | Seminar cancelled due to speaker illness. |
| January 13 | Dr. Alex Moore | Coastal wetland ecology and conservation: The role of predators |
| January 20 | Dr. Courtney Shuert | Migration, stress, and animal health: Using movement ecology to support conservation for narwhal and other marine mammals in the Arctic
This session was not recorded at the request of the speaker. |
| January 27 | Dr. Jean-Baptiste Jouffray | The Anthropocene Ocean: challenges and prospects for ocean sustainability |
| February 3 | Dr. Julia K. Baum | Marine Heatwave-Driven Transformation of Coral Reef Ecosystems |
| February 10 | Dr. Jonathan Moore | Salmon Futures: Science and Stewardship of Salmon Systems in an Era of Rapid Change |
| February 17 | Dr. Amy M. Van Cise | The role of sociality in cetacean ecology, evolution, and conservation | March 3 | Dr. Nicola Smith | Addressing the challenges of overexploitation, invasive species, and climate change to ocean sustainability |
| March 10 | Dr. Guillermo Ortuño Crespo | The future of spatial ecology, transboundary management & the High Seas |
| March 17 | Dr. Ben Halpern | The environmental footprint of global food production |
| March 24 | Dr. Jessica Gephart | Global blue trade its role in sustainable food systems |
| March 31 | Student Presentations | Anna Schuhbauer (PDF, Fisheries Economics Research Unit) Global economic impact of scuba dive tourism Supervisor: Rashid Sumaila Yulia Egorova (PhD, EOAS) Shabnam Shadloo (PhD, OCF) Karly McMullen (MSc, OCF) |
November 19Dr. Jeremy PittmanIdentifying entry points to enhance the adaptive capacity of small-scale fishing communitiesNovember 26Student and PresentationsStudent and Presentations
- Max Miner (MSc student): Lax Kwil Dziidz: The place that squirts. Harmful Algal Blooms, Ancient DNA, and Gitga'at Shellfish Mariculture at Clamstown
- Josh McInnes (MSc student): Photo-Identification and Community Structure of Transient Killer Whales off California and Oregon
- Kristen Sora (PhD student): Beaufort Sea Historical Changes and Relevance to Management
- Harmony Martell (Postdoctoral Fellow): Training Corals to Resist Bleaching
| September 10 | Dr. Rosemary Ommer | The importance of scale complexities in fisheries research |
| September 17 | Dr. Stephen Palumbi | The adaptive capacity of ocean species to respond to climate change |
| September 24 | Dr. Amina T. Schartup | The Biogeochemical Cycle of Mercury in an Era of Environmental Change |
| October 1 | Dr. Rashid Sumaila | Getting values and valuation right is fundamental to achieving Infinity fish |
| October 8 | Dr. Gideon Mordecai | The underwater epidemic; emerging viruses in wild Pacific salmon |
| October 15 | Dr. Amanda Vincent | Saving seahorses to save the seas |
| October 22 | Dr. Katye Altieri | Strategies for increasing the representation and success of Black Women in Oceanography – lessons learned from the Ocean Womxn programme in South Africa |
| October 29 | Dr. Michelle Tseng | Ecological and evolutionary effects of warming on plankton and insect communities |
| November 5 | Dr. Vianey Leos Barajas | Extending the hidden Markov model for analysis of animal movement data |
| November 12 | Dr. Ian Perry | DFO, and the Salish Sea |
| January 14 | Dr. Tim Essington | Expecting the unexpected: understanding and forecasting ecological responses to low dissolved oxygen in coastal ocean ecosystems |
| January 21 | Dr. Lucy Woodall | Co-creating deep sea science in a large ocean state |
| January 28 | Dr. Espinosa Romero | Sustainability at scale. Connecting 300,000 small-scale fishers in Latin America and the Caribbean for the mobilization of knowledge, solutions, and capital opportunities |
| February 4 | Dr. Paul Venturelli | The growing case for fishing apps as a viable (and exciting!) source of data Please note: This session was NOT recorded at the speaker's request. |
| February 11 | Lauren Eckert | Conservation, conflict, and core beliefs: Examining conflict and opportunities towards transformation in an Orca-Salmon-Human system Please note: This session was NOT recorded at the speaker's request. |
| February 18 | Dr. Kristi Miller-Saunders | Cumulative stressor impacts: towards a holistic measure of salmon health and condition |
| March 4 | Dr. Michelle LaRue | Many hands make light work: crowd-sourcing reveals population status for Weddell seals in Antarctica |
| March 11 | Johanna Wagstaffe, meteorologist and scientist for CBC Vancouver and CBC News Network | Extreme Weather 2021: A Snapshot of BC’s Future? Please note: This session was NOT recorded at the speaker's request. |
| March 18 | Dr. Elizabeth Selig | Global risks of labor abuse and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing |
| March 25 | Dr. Jessica Black and Dr. Courtney Carothers | Tamamta (All of Us): Indigenizing and Decolonizing Fisheries Education, Research, and Governance in Alaska |
| April 1 | Dr. Juliano Palacios Abrantes | Marine fishes do not need visas: managing shared fish stocks in a changing world Due to unforeseen circumstances, the seminar is cancelled this week. |
| April 8 | Student Presentations |
Please note: This session was NOT recorded as related papers have not yet been published\ |
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| September 11 | Dr. Dana Lepofsky, Simon Fraser University | The Clam Garden Network: Exploring the social-ecological contexts of clam management in the past, present and future |
| September 18 | Dr. Robert Blasiak, Stockholm Resilience Centre | The ocean genome and future prospects for conservation and equity |
| September 25 | Dr. Jessica Sparks, University of Nottingham | Modern slavery at sea: Working conditions in a changing marine environment |
| October 2 | Dr. Andrea Reid | "Two-Eyed Seeing": An Indigenous framework to transform fisheries research and management |
| October 9 | Dr. Thomas Froelicher, University of Bern | Ocean extremes: From marine heatwaves to compound events NOTE: This session was not recorded at the speaker's request. |
| October 16 | Dr. Ryan Rykaczewski, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service | Projected impacts of anthropogenic climate change on the California Current pelagic ecosystem NOTE: This session was not recorded at the speaker's request. |
| October 23 | Dr. Loren McClenachan, Elizabeth and Lee Ainslie Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Colby College | Warming waters, climate history, and adaptation: Lessons from Maine’s lobster fishery NOTE: This session was not recorded at the speaker's request. |
| October 30 | Dr. Sarah Harper, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria and Nature United | Closing the gender data gap to improve small-scale fisheries research and policy NOTE: This session was not recorded at the speaker's request. |
| November 6 | Dr. Boris Worm, Dalhousie University | People and the Sea: A positive vision for 2050 |
| November 13 | Dr. Dana Miller, Senior Policy Advisor, Oceana Europe | Fighting IUU fishing through improving corporate due diligence |
| November 20 | Karen Sack, Ocean Unite | Collaborating on Financial Innovation to Build Resilience to Ocean Risk through Nature Based Solutions |
| November 27 | Dr. Andrea Frommel, Postdoctoral Fellow, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab | Effects of environmental parameters on early life stages of commercial fishes and the implications for aquaculture |
| January 15 | Dr. Martin Wolf, postdoctoral associate, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy | The Environmental Performance Index: What can data-driven analyses teach us about sustainability policy around the world? |
| January 22 | Dr. Kristina Boerder, postdoctoral researcher, Dalhousie University | Protecting marine biodiversity in the Anthropocene |
| January 29 | CANCELLED. Due to circumstances beyond our control today's seminar has been cancelled. | |
| February 5 | Sara Cannon, PhD candidate, UBC Department of Geography and IOF | 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 |
| February 12 | Dr. Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Research Associate, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries | Enabling conditions for an equitable and sustainable Blue Economy |
| February 19 | READING WEEK | |
| February 26 | Dr. Joey Bernhardt, Hutchinson Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University | Linking physiology to population persistence and human well-being in a changing world |
| March 5 | Dr. Rebecca Asch, Assistant Professor, East Carolina University | Adding More Ecology to Ecological Niche Models: Life History, Non-Stationary Habitat Use, and Trade-offs in Climate Change Responses Among Fishes |
| March 12 | Dr. Philippa Cohen | Fish in food systems; beyond protein, production and pessimism |
| March 19 | Dr. Ibrahim Issifu | An integrated systems model for mitigating marine plastic pollution |
| March 26 | Dr. Jesse Morin | New Insights Into Pre-Contact Coast Salish Salmon Fisheries and Implications for Modern Stewardship |
| April 9 | Samantha Ramirez Kasey Stirling/Kate Mussett Aaron Greenberg Meaghan Efford Rowenna Gryba |
IOF Student presentations |
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. |
Term 2
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 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 |