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World Oceans Week 2022 – Dr. Juan José Alava

World Oceans Week 2022 – Dr. Juan José Alava

Any international effort to end plastic pollution must also contend with wealth disparities between nations, according to Dr. Alava. “In some developing countries, the reality is that people survive on plastic garbage.”

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Juan Jose Alava, Microplastics, OPRU, World Ocean Day

Partnership between UBC researchers, marine stewards and K’ómoks First Nation spawns new microplastics findings

Partnership between UBC researchers, marine stewards and K’ómoks First Nation spawns new microplastics findings

What they found helps illuminate the study of microplastics in the ocean, an area of pollution research that is garnering lots of attention due to the many unknowns about how these particles damage the health of organisms that ingest them.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Aboriginal fisheries, Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Coastline, Faculty, Herring, Indigenous fisheries, IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, plastic, pollution, Research, zooplankton

Europe’s most valuable marine species “reduced to a fraction” of their current population size by 2100

Europe’s most valuable marine species “reduced to a fraction” of their current population size by 2100

Over one quarter of Europe’s 20 most highly-fished marine species will be under extreme pressure by 2100 if nothing is done to simultaneously halt climate change, overfishing, and mercury pollution

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Climate change, CORU, FERU, Ibrahim Issifu, Juan Jose Alava, Overfishing, pollution, Rashid Sumaila, Vicky Lam

Instead of shopping this Black Friday, consider curbing your consumption

Instead of shopping this Black Friday, consider curbing your consumption

Drs. Juan Jose Alava and Rashid Sumaila are urging consumers to make the connection between what they buy on Black Friday and what eventually ends up harming our ecosystems—and our health.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, IOFSS, News Release | Tagged with Juan Jose Alava, OPRU, plastic, pollution, Rashid Sumaila

PROFILE: Investigating ocean pollution to “provide solutions, not just answers to questions”

PROFILE: Investigating ocean pollution to “provide solutions, not just answers to questions”

“Anthropogenic stressors are reshaping our ocean – it’s not the same ocean we had 30 or 40 years ago. As academics we need to provide solutions, not just answers to questions.”

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Evgeny Pakhomov, Fieldwork, IOF Research Associates, IOF students, Juan Jose Alava, OPRU, penguins, plastic, pollution, Research

Modelling provides insight into the risks microplastics pose to marine life

Modelling provides insight into the risks microplastics pose to marine life

“We learned that the water and sediments are polluted with microplastics. The global ocean is basically a dump. We need to change our behaviours, our preferences and our consumption.”

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, OPRU, plastic, pollution

New World Wildlife Fund reports call for better policy to save fish from climate change

New World Wildlife Fund reports call for better policy to save fish from climate change

IOF’s Drs. Juan Jose Alava and William Cheung contributed to two WWF reports.

Posted in 2020, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Climate change, CORU, Faculty, fisheries management, IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, Research, Small-scale fisheries, Species distribution, Species extinction, William Cheung

UBC experts share views on global action on climate change

UBC experts share views on global action on climate change

IOF-related experts recommend the one policy action they would use to address the climate crisis

Posted in 2019, IOFNews | Tagged with Climate change, Faculty, IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, Kai Chan, policy, Simon Donner

Status, Trends, and the Future of Fisheries in the East and South China Seas

Status, Trends, and the Future of Fisheries in the East and South China Seas

Fisheries Centre Research Report (FCRR 27-1) is now available

Posted in 2019, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Faculty, FCRR, IOF Research Associates, IOF students, Juan Jose Alava, Louise Teh, Publications, Rashid Sumaila, Research, William Cheung

Greater conservation efforts needed to protect Galápagos bird populations, a new study shows

Greater conservation efforts needed to protect Galápagos bird populations, a new study shows

Researchers found that unless current conservation measures are increased, the birds’ future conservation is precarious.

Posted in 2019, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Climate change, Conservation, IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, Nereus Program, Research, seabirds

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