Tags: Awards, British Columbia, Canada, Canada Research Chair, Conservation, CORU, David Rosen, Discovery Grants, fish, funding, heatwaves, Marie Auger-Methe, Marine mammals, MMean Lab, NSERC, SERG, Solving FCB, statistical ecology, William Cheung
Dr. Marie Auger-Méthé's Canada Research Chair in Statistical Ecology (Tier II) was renewed, and she, along with Dr. William Cheung and Dr. David Rosen received NSERC Discovery Grant funding.
"It turns out a lot of the Cubs' best players just weren't at the first game but showed up for this one," said Skipper Kristen Sora, "and unfortunately a bunch of our worst players also showed up."
Tags: Biodiversity, Blue economy, environment, FERU, fisheries economics, Louise Teh, low-income fishers, ocean economy, Rashid Sumaila, Solving FCB
Providing a basic income could boost global gross domestic product (GDP) by $US163 trillion while acting to curb environmental degradation, UBC research has found.
This book will be used for future FISH 501 courses, and for the IOF ecosystem modelling micro certificate course.
Want to read Dr. Daniel Pauly's PhD thesis? This FCRR contains the 1979 dissertation, but with minor typographical errors corrected and tables and figures reorganized for clarity.
Action Canada selects emerging leaders from across Canada to become Fellows. They represent all sectors, including business, NGOs, science, government and academia. What they share in common is a commitment to Canada and a demonstrated engagement with public policy.
Tags: Awards, Biodiversity, Brian Hunt, British Columbia, eDNA, environmental DNA, Faculty, IOF students, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, Research, zooplankton, Zooscan
The award will fund a project to provide high resolution zooplankton biodiversity data by integrating eDNA, and the Zooscan imaging system, to establish a biodiversity benchmark for the wider BC coast.
*Editor's note* The regular softball sportswriter was benched for using the Canadian spelling of “offense” last week. Here at the red white and blue IOF sports desk, we don’t allow that kind of thing.
“It was weird to be winning a game for once,” said bench coach Dana “Fisher” Price, “but not weird like the pizza toppings after IOF seminars, weird in a good way.”
Tags: Project Seahorse, UBC
The 14th edition of UBC Vancouver’s Faculty & Staff Sports Day had faculty and staff from a variety of units represented at the event. Project Seahorse fielded the only IOF team.