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

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Climate change may mean more jellyfish in our oceans

On World Jellyfish Day, as climate change kills off competition, jellyfish numbers may rise. UBC researcher Jessica Schaub is working on increasing what we know about these marine creatures and their future.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Climate change, IOF students, jellyfish, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab

Jellyfish and gelatinous zooplankton need to be a part of climate change conversations

Jellyfish and gelatinous zooplankton need to be a part of climate change conversations

On World Jellyfish Day, UBC researcher Florian Lüskow, who focuses on freshwater jellyfish says that existing models often poorly include, and heavily oversimplify, these gelatinous organisms.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Climate change, Freshwater, IOF students, jellyfish, Marine Zooplankton and Micronekton Laboratory, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, zooplankton

This scientist is taking an international jellyfish tour to explore mucus and medusae

This scientist is taking an international jellyfish tour to explore mucus and medusae

UBC doctoral student Jessica Schaub is about to set off on an international tour of jellyfish

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Aboriginal fisheries, Awards, Indigenous fisheries, Indigenous Knowledge, IOF students, jellyfish

International Year of the Salmon Expedition helps IOF researchers map North Pacific food webs

International Year of the Salmon Expedition helps IOF researchers map North Pacific food webs

For scientists in the IOF’s Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, the trip represents a chance to trace the outline of North Pacific food webs, in which salmon play a central role as both predator and prey.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, IYSExpedition, News Release, Research | Tagged with Anna McLaskey, Brian Hunt, Faculty, food webs, Genyffer Troina, Gulf of Alaska, International Year of the Salmon, IOF postdoctoral fellows, jellyfish, plankton, salmon, squid, zooplankton

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Jellyfish researcher Jessica Schaub to take “international tour” thanks to Hugh Morris Fellowship

Schaub has received a fellowship that will enable her to visit four countries where she will deepen her understanding of jellyfish.

Posted in 2022, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Awards, IOF students, jellyfish

“Race to jellyfish” leaves Mexican fishery in turbulent water

“Race to jellyfish” leaves Mexican fishery in turbulent water

Over the last 20 years, interest in cannonball jellyfish in the Gulf of California, Mexico exploded when Chinese investors saw that the area was a hot spot for the species.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with fisheries management, jellyfish, Lucas Brotz, Mexico, Sea Around Us

Shedding light on mysterious jellyfish diets

Shedding light on mysterious jellyfish diets

We think of jellyfish as not being picky eaters, but in this case, it seemed that they didn’t like feeding on a single diet.

Posted in 2020, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Brian Hunt, Faculty, food webs, IOF students, jellyfish, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, Vancouver Aquarium

HCI Marine Food Webs – Summer sampling trip to Quadra Island

HCI Marine Food Webs – Summer sampling trip to Quadra Island

Hakai Coastal Initiative Marine Food Webs Working Group (FWWG) undertook a 10-day sampling trip which looked at day/night behaviour of bacteria, protists, zooplankton, and parasites in the Strait of Georgia.

Posted in 2019, IOFNews, Research | Tagged with Brian Hunt, Faculty, food webs, Hakai Coastal Initiative, Hakai Institute, IOF postdoctoral fellows, IOF students, jellyfish, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton

Sailing the Southern Ocean – for science

Sailing the Southern Ocean – for science

IOF postdoctoral fellows and researchers, Boris Espinasse, Natasha Henschke, and Marina Espinasse focused on the cycling and diversity-function of zooplankton and metazoans

Posted in 2018, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Antarctic, Biodiversity, Boris Espinasse, Brian Hunt, Evgeny Pakhomov, Faculty, Fieldwork, IOF postdoctoral fellows, jellyfish, Marina Espinasse, Natasha Henschke, plankton

UBC researchers use drones to track jellyfish blooms

UBC researchers use drones to track jellyfish blooms

Jellyfish blooms are becoming more widespread and scientists ate looking for ways to better understand them.

Posted in 2018, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Climate change, Evgeny Pakhomov, Faculty, Fieldwork, IOF students, jellyfish, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab

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