Tags: British Columbia, Canada, Canada Research Chair, Christopher Harley, funding, NSERC, Solving FCB, Sustainability, William Cheung
Dr. William Cheung's Canada Research Chair in Ocean Sustainability and Global Change (Tier II) was renewed for another five years. Dr. Chris Harley's Sentinels of Changes project was funded.
This program is aimed at engaging exceptional young African researchers to build international networks that can develop ocean and freshwater sustainability solutions. DEADLINE: May 15, 2024
We sat down with Dr. Sumaila to discuss his perspective on being an African researcher in North America, especially during February’s Black History Month.
Tags: Ayodele Oloko, Black History Month, Fisheries Economics Research Unit, IOF students, IUU fishing, Rashid Sumaila, tropics, Women, women in fishing
Student profile: Ayodele Oloko, PhD student in the Fisheries Economics Research Unit
Tags: Brian Hunt, girls in science, Grace Melchers, International Day of Women and Girls In Science, IOF students, kelp, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, Women in Science
Student profile: Grace Melchers, MSc student in the Pelagic Ecosystems Lab
Tags: Awards, FERU, fisheries economics, honours, OceanCanada, Rashid Sumaila, Solving FCB, South Africa
He was appointed by the University of Pretoria's Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development.
Tags: Daniel Pauly, Deng Palomares, Faculty, fisheries management, Illegal fishing, Indonesia, IOF Research Associates, IUU, piracy, Research, Sea Around Us
Certain policies and policing measures taken by countries to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing drive local actors to engage in piracy, new Sea Around Us research has found.
Tags: Ecuador, Galápagos, IOF alumni, IOF Research Associates, IOF students, Juan Jose Alava, Microplastics, OPRU, penguins, plastic, pollution, Research
The model predictions showed a rapid increase in microplastic accumulation and contamination across the penguins’ prey organisms resulting in Galápagos penguin displaying the highest level of microplastics per biomass, followed by barracuda, anchovy, sardine, herring, and salema and predatory zooplankton.
During a series of workshops and meetings held in June and December 2023, Belizean fishers endorsed the findings of the stock assessments carried out by the Sea Around Us, which show that commercially important species such as conch and lobster are overfished
The Salty Science team, which included UBC Oceans student Lauren Shea, rowed 5,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean and placed #1 in Womens Class, and #7 overall!