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Email: k.came_at_oceans.ubc.ca
Office: 604-827-4325

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Awards

2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement: Daniel Pauly and Rashid Sumaila are winners

2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement: Daniel Pauly and Rashid Sumaila are winners

The UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries professors say winning this prize gives them an opportunity to spread an urgent and evidence-based message: all fishing on the high seas should be banned.

Posted in 2023, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Awards, Biodiversity, Conservation, Daniel Pauly, environment, High Seas, Overfishing, Rashid Sumaila

Amanda Vincent receives the 5th Dawkins Prize for Conservation and Animal Welfare

Amanda Vincent receives the 5th Dawkins Prize for Conservation and Animal Welfare

This Prize honours exceptional achievement in research focused on animals whose conservation and welfare are affected by human activity.

Posted in 2023, IOF Honours, IOFNews | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, Awards, Project Seahorse, UK

Explorers among us

Explorers among us

Assistant professor Dr. Andrea Reid, and postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Harmony Martell, joined the Explorers Club 50, class of 2023.

Posted in 2023, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Andrea Reid, Awards, Centre for Indigenous Fisheries, Faculty, Harmony Martell, IOF postdoctoral fellows

Dr.  Rashid Sumaila named as 2022 AAAS Fellow

Dr. Rashid Sumaila named as 2022 AAAS Fellow

AAAS has elected Dr. Rashid Sumaila to the newest class of Fellows.

Posted in 2023, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Awards, Rashid Sumaila

Dr. Rashid Sumaila

Rashid Sumaila wins RSC’s Miroslaw Romanowski Medal for scientific work relating to environmental problems

Prof. Sumaila is a UBC University Killam Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics, and one of the world’s most innovative researchers on the future of the oceans.

Posted in 2022, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Awards, environment, FERU, OceanCanada, Rashid Sumaila

Dr. Villy Christensen

Villy Christensen named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Dr. Christensen, a professor at the UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, is the principal architect behind the Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) modelling approach and software.

Posted in 2022, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Awards, Ecopath, Ecopath with Ecosim (EWE), Villy Christensen

This scientist is taking an international jellyfish tour to explore mucus and medusae

This scientist is taking an international jellyfish tour to explore mucus and medusae

UBC doctoral student Jessica Schaub is about to set off on an international tour of jellyfish

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Aboriginal fisheries, Awards, Indigenous fisheries, Indigenous Knowledge, IOF students, jellyfish

PhD student Alexander Duncan appointed to Indigenous Leadership Circle in Research

PhD student Alexander Duncan appointed to Indigenous Leadership Circle in Research

This new group will advise the presidents of Canada’s three federal research funding agencies – CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC.

Posted in 2022, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Awards, Centre for Indigenous Fisheries, Indigenous fisheries, Indigenous Knowledge

Dr. Simon Donner is appointed to Net-Zero Advisory Body

Dr. Simon Donner is appointed to Net-Zero Advisory Body

The Net-Zero Advisory Body is a group of independent experts from across Canada, established by the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change, to give advice on how Canada can achieve its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Posted in 2022, IOF Honours, News Release | Tagged with Awards, Canada, Climate change, Simon Donner

Moon Jellyfish - slide

Jellyfish researcher Jessica Schaub to take “international tour” thanks to Hugh Morris Fellowship

Schaub has received a fellowship that will enable her to visit four countries where she will deepen her understanding of jellyfish.

Posted in 2022, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Awards, IOF students, jellyfish

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