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Cooperating to tackle plastic pollution

Cooperating to tackle plastic pollution

Shifting the focus of intervention to the supply-side, by evaluating the potential environmental and economic outcomes of a voluntary levy on the top 100 plastic producers.

Posted in 2025, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with adjunct faculty, climate change, faculty, FERU, Ibrahim Issifu, Ilyass Dahmouni, IOF Research Associates, Paris Agreement, plastic, pollution, Publications, Rashid Sumaila, recycling, Research

Ancient seafloor creature grew like modern marine invertebrates – study

Ancient seafloor creature grew like modern marine invertebrates – study

New research shows that the growth and lifespan of Parvancorina minchami, small anchor-shaped animals that lived on the seafloor about 550 million years ago, was about four years, that they could reach close to 20 millimetres in length, and that their pace of growth was similar to that of small recent invertebrate.

Posted in 2025, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with ancient, Daniel Pauly, faculty, marine invertebrates, Research, Sea Around Us

Project Seahorse’s new study highlights the value of community science for seahorse monitoring and conservation

Project Seahorse’s new study highlights the value of community science for seahorse monitoring and conservation

“Harnessing Community Science for Seahorse Population Monitoring: Insights from the iSeahorse Program in Tampa Bay” was published in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. The study showcases the important role of community science in monitoring seahorse populations to support conservation efforts.

Posted in 2025, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, citizen science, community, faculty, fisheries management, Florida, IOF Research Associates, IOF staff, iSeahorse, Miguel Correia, Project Seahorse, seahorses

IOF faculty and students win awards from the Peter Wall Legacy Awards program

IOF faculty and students win awards from the Peter Wall Legacy Awards program

These awards are one of the largest internal award programs at any university in North America. The suite of awards will support the research activities of tenure-track faculty members at all stages of their career, and those of Master’s and doctoral students.

Posted in 2024, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with awards, Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Burrard Inlet, coastal environment, eDNA, faculty, honours, IOF students, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, urban environment, wastewater, watersheds

Thousands of jellyfish clones are multiplying in B.C. lakes

Thousands of jellyfish clones are multiplying in B.C. lakes

An invasive, freshwater jellyfish is popping up in B.C. waters in the thousands – up to 34 places so far – and future sightings could increase rapidly by the end of the decade as climate change extends this range.

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with British Columbia, climate change, Evgeny Pakhomov, faculty, freshwater, invasive species, IOF postdoctoral fellows, jellyfish, Research

Pelagic Ecosystems Lab wins BC Conservation & Biodiversity Award

Pelagic Ecosystems Lab wins BC Conservation & Biodiversity Award

The award will fund a project to provide high resolution zooplankton biodiversity data by integrating eDNA, and the Zooscan imaging system, to establish a biodiversity benchmark for the wider BC coast.

Posted in 2024, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with awards, biodiversity, Brian Hunt, British Columbia, eDNA, environmental DNA, faculty, IOF students, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, Research, zooplankton, Zooscan

MP Mike Kelloway visits IOF

MP Mike Kelloway visits IOF

Mike Kelloway is federal Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with faculty, IOF postdoctoral fellows, IOF Research Associates, IOF students, special guests

Citizen scientists contribute vital information about 35 seahorse species: their geographic ranges, habitats, and pregnancy seasonality

Citizen scientists contribute vital information about 35 seahorse species: their geographic ranges, habitats, and pregnancy seasonality

Thanks to diligent observers, seahorses, those enigmatic and charismatic fish, are not only being discovered in new habitats and expanded geographic ranges, they are also being found at new ocean depths. While their capacity for male pregnancy has long fascinated people, new information on sex ratio and pregnancy seasonality has been discovered by, well, you. […]

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, citizen science, conservation, faculty, IOF students, iSeahorse, IUCN, Project Seahorse, Research, seahorses

Dr. Marie Auger-Méthé receives UBC’s Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research

Dr. Marie Auger-Méthé receives UBC’s Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research

This award recognizes demonstrated excellence in pure or applied scientific research by a young faculty member.

Posted in 2024, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with awards, faculty, honours, Marie Auger-Methe, Research, UBC

Fishing village in the Northern Bintan Island, Indonesia. Photo by Anup Phayal.

Unilateral efforts to combat illegal fishing may spur piracy in certain regions

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.

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Daniel Pauly, Deng Palomares, faculty, fisheries management, Illegal fishing, Indonesia, IOF Research Associates, IUU, piracy, Research, Sea Around Us

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