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What could be impacting the food source of Southern Resident killer whales?

What could be impacting the food source of Southern Resident killer whales?

There are currently 74 Southern Resident killer whales, and this population is listed as endangered in both Canada and the U.S. The species relies on Pacific salmon (Chinook and coho) for food, however these salmon populations have been decreasing for decades.

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Carl Walters, IOF alumni, IOF students, killer whales, marine mammals, orca, Pacific, Pacific Ocean, pinnipeds, salmon, sea lions, seals, walrus, whales

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

PEEC 2024 sees students engage with Indigenous history, science and conservation

PEEC 2024 sees students engage with Indigenous history, science and conservation

At PEEC 2024, IOF students presented and explored Pacific ecology and evolution research and learned about Indigenous history and conservation efforts along the Pacific Northwest.

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Bamfield, bottom trawling, environmental DNA, food security, humpback whales, Indigenous conservation, Indigenous culture, Indigenous history, IOF students, Nuu-chah-nulth Warriors, Pacific Ecology and Evolution, PEEC 2024, Sea Around Us, UBC, UBC Zoology, Vancouver Island

Shark-bitten orcas in the Northeastern Pacific could be a new population of killer whale

Shark-bitten orcas in the Northeastern Pacific could be a new population of killer whale

UBC researchers believe a group of killer whales observed hunting marine mammals including sperm whales, as well as a sea turtle, in the open ocean off California and Oregon could be a new population.

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Andrew Trites, IOF students, Josh McInnes, killer whales, Marine Mammal Research Unit, marine mammals, orca, Pacific Ocean, whales

Student Aleah Wong is Storytellers Challenge finalist

Student Aleah Wong is Storytellers Challenge finalist

MSc student Aleah Wong, who has made it to the final round of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) 2024 Storytellers Challenge.

Posted in 2024, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with honours, IOF students, science communications, SSHRC, storyteller

Researching the vulnerabilities women fishers are facing in Nigeria

Researching the vulnerabilities women fishers are facing in Nigeria

Student profile: Ayodele Oloko, PhD student in the Fisheries Economics Research Unit

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Ayodele Oloko, Black History Month, Fisheries Economics Research Unit, IOF students, IUU fishing, Rashid Sumaila, tropics, women, women in fishing

Environmental DNA in nearshore ecosystems in urban & non-urban environments

Environmental DNA in nearshore ecosystems in urban & non-urban environments

Student profile: Grace Melchers, MSc student in the Pelagic Ecosystems Lab

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Brian Hunt, girls in science, Grace Melchers, International Day of Women and Girls In Science, IOF students, kelp, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, Women in Science

Microplastics may be accumulating at a high rate in endangered Galápagos penguins’ food web

Microplastics may be accumulating at a high rate in endangered Galápagos penguins’ food web

The model predictions showed a rapid increase in microplastic accumulation and contamination across the penguins’ prey organisms resulting in Galápagos penguin displaying the highest level of microplastics per biomass, followed by barracuda, anchovy, sardine, herring, and salema and predatory zooplankton.

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Ecuador, Galápagos, IOF alumni, IOF Research Associates, IOF students, Juan Jose Alava, microplastics, OPRU, penguins, plastic, pollution

All-woman crew of marine scientists rowing 5,000 km non-stop for ocean conservation

All-woman crew of marine scientists rowing 5,000 km non-stop for ocean conservation

The all-woman ‘Salty Science’ crew is taking part in the World’s Toughest Row – Atlantic 2023, where teams row without stopping and without support from San Sebastian de La Gomera in The Canary Islands to Nelson’s Dockyard in Antigua.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Atlantic, conservation, IOF students, rowing, Salty Science

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