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 be in a Hybrid (in-person and via Zoom), or ZOOM only format.
The IOF Oceans and Fisheries Seminar Series is open to the public. Everyone is welcome!
Schedule
W2023/4 – Term 2
DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
March 22 In person/over Zoom |
Dr. Diva Amon is a Caribbean marine biologist focused on the little-known habitats and animals of the deep ocean, and how our actions are impacting them. She works at the nexus of science, policy and communication, and has a deep desire to see stewardship measures applied to the deep ocean as well as the engagement of a broader group of global stakeholders towards this effort. Diva has participated in research cruises around the world, produced over 75 peer-reviewed papers, and delivered numerous presentations to decision-makers. Amon is a science advisor to the Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a founder and director of SpeSeas, an organization dedicated to marine science, education, and advocacy in her home country, Trinidad and Tobago. She is also a 2020 National Geographic Emerging Explorer and a World Economic Forum Friend of Ocean Action. Amon gained a PhD from the University of Southampton, and did postdoctoral research at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the Natural History Museum, London. |
The deep ocean, poorly known and largely never seen by the human eye, currently represents 82% of all States’ jurisdictions and the vast majority of areas beyond national jurisdiction. An increase in technology, fascination with this unknown part of the planet, and interest in developing the Blue Economy has led to an expansion of efforts to know, understand, share, and use the global deep ocean. However, with deep-ocean ecosystems already affected by climate change, fisheries and pollution, and with new threats on the horizon, we are at a critical juncture for stewarding Earth’s deep. It is critically fragile, so careful stewardship, which is more likely to be effective when it is locally shaped and led, is needed. Despite this, barriers in capacity have led to inequitable access to the deep ocean, as well as its resources. During this presentation, accompany me on a journey into the depths, to see parts of the planet that few others have and to shine a light on the pressing fate of the deep. Please note: this session will NOT be recorded as per the speaker’s request. |
March 29 | GOOD FRIDAY – No Classes | |
April 5 over Zoom |
TBA | TBA |
April 12 | TBA | Student Presentations |
January 12 | Dr. Anna McLaskey, Research Associate, IOF | Tracing prey sources from the base of the food web to understand drivers of pelagic nutrition |
January 19 | Dr. Trevor Branch, Professor, University of Washington | Fear and food drive blue whale migration, singing, mating, and calving behavior |
January 26 | Dr. Jordan Rosenfeld / Dr. Steve McAdam | Zombie ideas in marine ecology: ruminations around thresholds for hypoxia impacts / The importance of collaborative interdisciplinary research to white sturgeon recovery and conservation |
February 2 | Dr. Ahmed Khan | Fishing for development: can we get the right ‘hook’ for sustaining fisheries benefits?
Please note: this session was NOT be recorded as per the speaker’s request. |
February 9 | Dr. Sasha Wagner | What can black carbon in the ocean tell us about wildfire in the Earth system?
Please note: this session will NOT be recorded as per the speaker’s request. |
February 16 | Fraser McDonald | Enhancing Marine Conservation through Adaptive Management in the Northern Shelf Bioregion MPA Network: Insights from a Commercial Fisherman |
March 1 | Dr. Andres Cisneros Montemayor | Anti-Inequity and the Blue Economy |
March 8 | Lauren Shea | Rowing the Atlantic — Four marine scientists row 5000km for ocean conservation
Please note: this session was NOT be recorded as per the speaker’s request. |
March 15 | Dr. Juan Jose Alava | 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 |
DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
September 15 | Dr. Daniel Pauly | The Gill-Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT): current trends and challenges |
September 22 | Dr. Alifa Haque | From citizen science to open-source low-cost technology monitoring vs. policing of small-scale fisheries in Bangladesh (case-study: sharks and rays)
Please note: a portion of this presentation is under embargo. It has been recorded and will be uploaded to the IOF YouTube channel once the embargo has passed. |
September 29 | Adam Soliman | Deciphering legal terminology for fisheries scholars |
October 6 | Dr. Muhammed Oyinlola | Future of mariculture under climate change |
October 13 | Dr. Rajeev Jaiman | Advanced Models and Solutions for Mitigating the Impact of Ship Noise on Marine Mammals |
October 20 | Dr. Alexander Tewfik | The importance of understanding maturity for conservation and sustainability of Belize's fisheries
Please note: a portion of this presentation is under embargo. It has been recorded and will be uploaded to the IOF YouTube channel once the embargo has passed. |
October 27 | <strongDr. Nazli Demirel | Marine Stressors Magnified: Lessons from the Sea of Marmara Catastrophe |
November 3 | Dr. Nathan Bennett | Blue injustices, human rights, and ocean defenders |
November 10 | Dr. Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono | Sustainable Landscapes-Seascapes: For what and for whom? Please note: This session was not recorded at the speaker's request. |
November 17 | Dr. Emily Rubidge | Evaluating the design of the first Marine Protected Area Network in Pacific Canada under a changing climate
Please note: This session was not recorded at the speaker's request. |
November 24 | Seminar cancelled | Seminar cancelled |
December 1 | Student Presentations Please note: This session was not recorded at the speakers request. |
March 3Dr. Nicola SmithAddressing the challenges of overexploitation, invasive species, and climate change to ocean sustainability
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 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 SumailaYulia Egorova (PhD, EOAS) Global diversity and biomass of mesopelagic mesozooplankton Supervisor: Evgeny Pakhomov Shabnam Shadloo (PhD, OCF) Karly McMullen (MSc, OCF) |
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 |
November 19 | Dr. Jeremy Pittman | Identifying entry points to enhance the adaptive capacity of small-scale fishing communities |
November 26 | Student and Presentations
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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 |