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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, Research | Tagged with British Columbia, climate change, Evgeny Pakhomov, faculty, freshwater, invasive species, IOF postdoctoral fellows, jellyfish

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, Research | Tagged with awards, biodiversity, Brian Hunt, British Columbia, eDNA, environmental DNA, faculty, IOF students, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, 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, Research | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, citizen science, conservation, faculty, IOF students, iSeahorse, IUCN, Project Seahorse, 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, Research | Tagged with awards, faculty, honours, Marie Auger-Methe, 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, Research | Tagged with Daniel Pauly, Deng Palomares, faculty, fisheries management, Illegal fishing, Indonesia, IOF Research Associates, IUU, piracy, Sea Around Us

Dr. Rashid Sumaila among 2023’s top most influential Africans

Dr. Rashid Sumaila among 2023’s top most influential Africans

This UBC prof is making waves worldwide in sustainable ocean resource management

Posted in 2024, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with awards, faculty, FERU, ocean economy, Rashid Sumaila, Solving FCB

Toxic chemicals found in oil spills and wildfire smoke detected in killer whales

Toxic chemicals found in oil spills and wildfire smoke detected in killer whales

Toxic chemicals produced from oil emissions and wildfire smoke have been found in muscle and liver samples from Southern Resident killer whales and Bigg’s killer whales.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with biology, British Columbia, contaminants, faculty, IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, killer whales, OPRU, orca, Pacific Ocean, pollution, whales

Your local sea snail might not make it in warmer oceans – but oysters will

Your local sea snail might not make it in warmer oceans – but oysters will

The frilled dog winkle may sound like a complex knot for a tie, but this local sea snail holds clues to our warmer future, including a dire outlook for species that can’t move, adapt, or acclimate as fast as their environment heats up.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with British Columbia, Christopher Harley, climate change, faculty, Fiona Beaty, oysters, sea snails, Strait of Georgia, whales

UN climate conference should not be ‘business as usual’, say climate experts

UN climate conference should not be ‘business as usual’, say climate experts

Climate experts are looking for action on finance and renewable energy goals at the United Nations climate change conference, including the 28th Conference of Parties (COP).

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with climate change, COP28, faculty, international trade, William Cheung

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