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Winners of the IOF student awards/scholarships

Winners of the IOF student awards/scholarships

Congratulations to Tatiana Chamorro, Deniz Coskuner, Jullia Mayer, Grace Melchers, Stephanie Moore, and Samara Polwatta

Posted in 2025, IOF Honours, IOFNews | Tagged with awards, honours, IOF students

Addressing gendered impacts of climate change and IUU in small-scale fisheries

Addressing gendered impacts of climate change and IUU in small-scale fisheries

Researchers investigated the gendered impacts of climate change and IUU fishing and offered community-driven approaches to foster resilience, equity, and sustainability in SSFs across climate-sensitive regions.

Posted in 2025, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Africa, climate change, faculty, gender, Global South, Ibrahim Issifu, Illegal fishing, Ilyass Dahmouni, IOF postdoctoral fellows, IOF Research Associates, IOF students, IUU fishing, Louise Teh, Philippe le Billon, Rashid Sumaila, small-scale fisheries, William Cheung, women, women in fishing

IOF PhD student wins Raja Rosenbluth Award for Women in Biological Sciences

IOF PhD student wins Raja Rosenbluth Award for Women in Biological Sciences

Salomé Buglass is a marine scientist leading and supporting research on characterizing deep-water habitats, which led to an exciting discovery of a previously unknown deep-water kelp forest in the Galapagos Marine Reserve.

Posted in 2025, IOF Honours, IOFNews | Tagged with awards, Galápagos, honours, IOF students, kelp, Kelp forests

Wildfires could be harming our oceans and disrupting their carbon storage

Wildfires could be harming our oceans and disrupting their carbon storage

Wildfires pollute waterways and could affect their ability to sequester carbon, recent University of British Columbia research shows.

Posted in 2025, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Brian Hunt, British Columbia, carbon, climate change, coastal ecosystems, coastal environment, Fraser River, freshwater, IOF alumni, IOF students, marine ecosystems, pollutants, wildfire

“Ocean Idioms” to teach you about our oceans

“Ocean Idioms” to teach you about our oceans

In honour of World Ocean Day, we present OCEAN IDIOMS!

Posted in 2025, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Andrew Trites, Anna McLaskey, carbon, Christopher Harley, coastal ecosystems, coastal environment, Daniel Pauly, David Rosen, faculty, FERU, Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT), Illegal fishing, IOF students, killer whales, Marine Mammal Research Unit, marine mammals, MMean Lab, orca, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, pollutants, Rashid Sumaila, Sea Around Us, sea lions, wildfire, zooplankton

Indigenous Knowledge invaluable in identifying important habitats

Indigenous Knowledge invaluable in identifying important habitats

Indigenous Knowledge can provide a holistic understanding of species’ habitat use given that it contains observations of multiple species across seasons and includes animals’ complex relationships with other species and habitats.

Posted in 2025, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Alaska, animal movement, Arctic, faculty, habitats, Indigenous fisheries, Indigenous Knowledge, IOF students, Marie Auger-Methe, movement ecology, seals

First ever global map of fishmeal and fish oil factories exposes industry’s footprint

First ever global map of fishmeal and fish oil factories exposes industry’s footprint

UBC study has revealed the global distribution of fishmeal and fish oil factories for the first time, shedding light on a critical area of the aquaculture supply chain

Posted in 2025, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with aquaculture, faculty, FERU, fish oil, fishmeal, global policy, industrial production, IOF students, mariculture, Rashid Sumaila, wild caught fish

Hindcasting the Salish Sea reveals long-term patterns of environmental change

Hindcasting the Salish Sea reveals long-term patterns of environmental change

Greig Oldford, PhD Candidate at the University of British Columbia’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF) recently co-developed The Hindcast of the Salish Sea (HOTSSea) to address gaps in historical observations.

Posted in 2025, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with British Columbia, climate change, ecosystems, Global Ocean Modelling, IOF students, ocean ecology, Salish Sea, Villy Christensen

Student Profile: Shabnam Shadloo

Student Profile: Shabnam Shadloo

Shabnam is a third-year PhD student at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF) under the supervision of Marie Auger-Méthé. Her research focuses on the movement ecology, behaviour, and disease dynamics of Larus glaucescens (glaucous-winged gulls) within coastal and urban environments.

Posted in 2025, IOFNews, Student Profiles | Tagged with animal movement, foraging, IOF students, Marie Auger-Methe, movement ecology, pathogens, seagulls, SERG, student profiles

Sumaila-Volvo Graduate Prize in Environmental Sustainability winners announced

Sumaila-Volvo Graduate Prize in Environmental Sustainability winners announced

Congratulations to Verena Rossa-Roccor (IRES) and Aleah Wong (IOF), winners of the 2025 Sumaila-Volvo Graduate Prize in Environmental Sustainability.

Posted in 2025, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with awards, biodiversity, food security, honours, IOF students, public health, Publications, Rashid Sumaila

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