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

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Email: sachi.wickramasinghe_at_ubc.ca
Office: 604-822-4636

Fieldwork

PROFILE: Ocean Leaders step outside the lab to connect with communities and solve ocean problems

PROFILE: Ocean Leaders step outside the lab to connect with communities and solve ocean problems

Ocean Leaders teaches students from across disciplines in the natural and social sciences how to communicate marine research to a broad audience

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Aboriginal fisheries, China, Fieldwork, fishmeal, Indigenous fisheries, IOF students, Ocean Leaders, Research, science communications, Simon Donner, Tsleil-Waututh Nation

STUDENT PROFILE: Natalie Benoit

STUDENT PROFILE: Natalie Benoit

Benoit’s field research is based in the Strait of Georgia and Johnstone Strait, where she collects samples of environmental DNA – eDNA is microscopic pieces of genetic material left behind when the fish travel through water – from Pacific salmon.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews | Tagged with Fieldwork, Hakai Institute, IOF students, Pacific, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, salmon

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

A large Chinook salmon, getting ready to be released after measurements were taken.

Studying the Spring salmon to help protect BC ecosystems

Chinook, also known as Spring salmon, stocks in have been in decline, which has implications for entire BC marine food web

Posted in 2019, IOFNews | Tagged with British Columbia, Fieldwork, food webs, IOF students, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, Research, salmon, whales

How climate-controlled growth flumes could help us explore unanswered questions about kelp and climate change

How climate-controlled growth flumes could help us explore unanswered questions about kelp and climate change

New equipment creates environmental conditions that mimic the projected future state of our oceans, allowing them play out “what if” scenarios for situations like climate change.

Posted in 2019, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Climate change, Faculty, Fieldwork, Hakai Coastal Initiative, Hakai Institute, kelp, NSERC, Ocean ecology, Research

International Gulf of Alaska Expedition

International Gulf of Alaska Expedition

The IOF has two faculty members on board this international salmon research voyage to the Gulf of Alaska

Posted in 2019, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Canada, Evgeny Pakhomov, Faculty, Fieldwork, food webs, High Seas, Oceanography, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, Research, salmon

Super Salmon Science

Super Salmon Science

Hakai Institute’s Juvenile Salmon Program investigates factors affecting juvenile salmon across the Discovery Islands and Johnstone Strait.

Posted in 2018, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with British Columbia, Fieldwork, Hakai Coastal Initiative, Hakai Institute, IOF students, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, Research, salmon

Small in size, but mighty in impact

Small in size, but mighty in impact

Salps are fascinating organisms that have a huge impact on the planet’s ability to manage climate change.

Posted in 2018, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Biodiversity, Climate change, Evgeny Pakhomov, Faculty, Fieldwork, Krill, Research, salps, Sustainability

Hakai Coastal Initiative’s Marine Food Webs Working Group

Hakai Coastal Initiative’s Marine Food Webs Working Group

This collaborative research unit aims to understand how marine food webs operate, with a particular focus on British Columbia’s coastal ocean.

Posted in 2018, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Coastline, Faculty, Fieldwork, food webs, Hakai Coastal Initiative, Hakai Institute, IOF postdoctoral fellows, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, Research

Photo: Mo Phung

Cigarettes account for half of waste recovered on Vancouver and Victoria shorelines

UBC researchers analysed data from 1,226 voluntary cleanups organized by the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup (GCSC).

Posted in 2018, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with British Columbia, Fieldwork, IOF students, plastic, pollution, Research, Shoreline cleanup

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