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Andrew Trites and Daniel Pauly join UBC’s Quarter Century Club, Eden Fellner joins 25 Year Club

Andrew Trites and Daniel Pauly join UBC’s Quarter Century Club, Eden Fellner joins 25 Year Club

The Quarter Century Club honours faculty who have spent 25 years at UBC. The 25 Year Club honours staff who have achieved that same milestone.

Posted in 2020, IOF Honours, IOFNews | Tagged with Andrew Trites, Awards, Daniel Pauly, Faculty, IOF staff, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Sea Around Us

New footage gives whale’s-eye view of northern and southern resident orcas

New footage gives whale’s-eye view of northern and southern resident orcas

UBC and Hakai Institute researchers have just returned from a 30-day research trip in the northern and southern waters of Vancouver Island, where they gathered stunning new aerial and underwater footage of northern and southern resident killer whales that offers an unparalleled glimpse into the underwater lives of these whales. The research is part of […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with Andrew Trites, British Columbia, Faculty, IOF postdoctoral fellows, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Marine mammals, Research, salmon, Sarah Fortune, whales

Swimming with the pod

Swimming with the pod

For the past two weeks, Marine Mammal Research Unit (MMRU) researchers led by Dr. Andrew
Trites have been studying the feeding behaviours of northern resident killer whales.

Posted in 2020, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Andrew Trites, Cetaceans, Fieldwork, IOF postdoctoral fellows, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Marine mammals, Research, Sarah Fortune, whales

Bowhead whales feed year-round in Cumberland Sound, Nunavut

Bowhead whales feed year-round in Cumberland Sound, Nunavut

Satellite telemetry and time-depth recorders are providing new and surprising insights into the secret lives of bowhead whales

Posted in 2020, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Andrew Trites, Arctic, IOF postdoctoral fellows, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Sarah Fortune, whales

Aerial drones offer new perspective on resident killer whale behaviour

Aerial drones offer new perspective on resident killer whale behaviour

Scientists got a rare glimpse into the underwater behaviour of killer whales off the B.C. coast, with the help of aerial drones.

Posted in 2019, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Andrew Trites, Faculty, Hakai Institute, IOF postdoctoral fellows, IOF Research Associates, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Mei Sato, Research, salmon, whales

Protecting Canada’s endangered whales through scientific research and collaboration

Protecting Canada’s endangered whales through scientific research and collaboration

Dr. Andrew Trites will receive $1 million over five years for research on Southern Resident Killer Whales

Posted in 2019, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Andrew Trites, British Columbia, Canada, Cetaceans, Faculty, Marine ecosystems, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Marine mammals, salmon, whales

Andrew Trites

Dr. Andrew Trites awarded the UBC Faculty of Science Alumni Builder Award

The Award recognizes alumni who have significantly contributed to the University and enriched the lives of others.

Posted in 2018, IOF Honours, IOFNews | Tagged with Andrew Trites, Awards, Faculty, IOF alumni, Marine Mammal Research Unit

Andrew Trites

Andrew Trites wins the Timothy R. Parsons Medal

Trites has been studying marine mammals (primarily Steller sea lions, harbour seals, northern fur seals, and killer whales), in the North Pacific for over 30 years.

Posted in 2018, Award opportunities, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Andrew Trites, Awards, Faculty, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Marine mammals

DFO announces funding for research on Southern Resident Killer Whales

DFO announces funding for research on Southern Resident Killer Whales

Andrew Trites and Brian Hunt are co-PIs on the project to examine how changes in the food web affect the abundance and quality of Chinook salmon in critical habitat areas of the Southern Resident Killer Whale

Posted in 2018, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Andrew Trites, Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Conservation, Faculty, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Marine mammals, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, salmon, whales

Steller sea lion research front and centre at the Vancouver Aquarium

Steller sea lion research front and centre at the Vancouver Aquarium

The Aquarium’s new Steller Bay highlights research done by IOF’s Marine Mammal Research Unit’s Drs. Andrew Trites and David Rosen.

Posted in 2017, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Andrew Trites, British Columbia, David Rosen, Faculty, Marine ecosystems, Marine Mammal Research Unit, sea lions

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