Unchecked climate change may leave some Arctic predators, such as seals and whales, surviving off of marine “junk food".
Tags: Arctic, awards, climate change, freshwater, IOF postdoctoral fellows, marine ecosystems, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, pollution, Research
The fellowship, for postdoctoral fellows, is to develop recipients’ leadership potential and is granted based on the applicant’s research excellence, the quality of their proposed research, and the match between the applicant and the strategic priorities of their academic institute.
Tags: awards, IOF students
This prestigious award is given to students based on their academic work and leadership skills.
Tags: Atlantic, cod, Daniel Pauly, faculty, fish stocks, fisheries management, Research, Sea Around Us
The assessment model demonstrated that if Canadian authorities had allowed for the rebuilding of the stock of northern Atlantic cod off Newfoundland and Labrador in the 1980s, annual catches of about 200,000 tonnes could have been sustained.
Tags: animal movement, faculty, IOF students, Marie Auger-Methe, observation, polar bears, Research, satellite data, seals, SERG, tagging, whales
“Ecology has a lot of difficult data to handle, and a big part of my research is developing new statistical methods to tackle these problems,” says Dr. Marie Auger-Méthé.
Tags: awards, biodiversity, Ecopath, Ecopath with Ecosim (EWE), faculty, Global Ocean Modelling, Modelling, Villy Christensen
Fellows are members who have made outstanding or meritorious contributions to the diversity of fields that are included in the American Fisheries Society.
Tags: Daniel Pauly, Dirk Zeller, East Africa, fisheries management, marine catches, Research, Sea Around Us, small-scale fisheries
Researchers found that effective small-scale fishing effort in the entire Mozambique Channel region grew slowly but steadily from around 386,000 kWdays in 1950 to around 23 million kWdays by 2016, with Mozambique and Madagascar dominating the upward trend.
“We brought an infrared camera mostly to see if we could find walruses, seals, and polar bears on the ice, but when we looked at the infrared footage, we saw these narwhals swimming."
Tags: climate change, conservation, coral, faculty, IOF students, Marine protected areas, Pacific, Research, Simon Donner
Study found coral in more polluted and high traffic water handled extreme heat events better than a more remote, untouched reef.