Tags: Andrew Trites, birds, British Columbia, Faculty, herons, Indigenous fisheries, IOF students, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Research, salmon, seabirds
Looking for predators that ate salmon, an Indigenous biologist suggested looking at heron. Discarded tags proved Pacific great blue herons could be scooping up as many as 3-6% of all juvenile salmon.
The paper, written in 1999 by Dr. Curtis Suttle (UBC) and Dr. Steven Wilhelm (University of Tennessee), is honoured for leading to a "fundamental shift in research focus and interpretation."
Tags: Andrew Trites, Animal movement, British Columbia, Faculty, IOF postdoctoral fellows, IOF students, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Marine mammals, Pacific, Research, Sarah Fortune, whales
In August 2020, Marine Mammal Research Unit (MMRU) researchers set sail to determine whether there are enough chinook salmon to support southern resident killer whales in the Salish Sea.
Tags: Andrew Trites, Arctic, Faculty, IOF postdoctoral fellows, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Marine mammals, Research, Sarah Fortune, whales
Understanding the needs of bowheads is a crucial first step taken to learn how they will respond to climate change.
"We learned that the water and sediments are polluted with microplastics. The global ocean is basically a dump. We need to change our behaviours, our preferences and our consumption.”
Tags: Aboriginal fisheries, Andrea Reid, Canada, Centre for Indigenous Fisheries, Indigenous fisheries
Indigenous fisheries scientist, conservation biologist and Nisga’a Nation member Dr. Andrea Reid joining as Principal Investigator.
UBC researchers set out to determine who was eating juvenile salmon, and when and where it was occurring by capturing and tracking harbour seals that carried cell-phone-like devices that recorded everything and everywhere the seals went.
Tags: Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Evgeny Pakhomov, food webs, Hakai Institute, Pacific, plankton, salmon
Zooplankton communities are profoundly shaped by BC's complicated coastlines, creating a mosaic of foraging conditions for the juvenile salmon that depend on them for sustenance.
Tags: Aboriginal fisheries, China, Fieldwork, fishmeal, Indigenous fisheries, IOF students, Ocean Leaders, Research, science communications, Simon Donner, Tsleil-Waututh Nation
Ocean Leaders teaches students from across disciplines in the natural and social sciences how to communicate marine research to a broad audience
The University Killam Professorship is the highest honour that UBC can confer on a faculty member, and recognizes exceptional teachers and researchers who are leaders in their fields.